Iranian police are running short on enforcers to compel women to wear Islamic headscarves, or hijabs, in public. Iran’s deputy chief of law enforcement asked the regime for more manpower to implement the sharia-mandated hijab rules, media reports said.
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Reuters Journalists Investigating Rohingya Abuses Sentenced to Seven Years by Myanmar Court
A Myanmar court sentenced two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, for seven years after they exposed the human rights abuses by the Myanmar military on the Rohingya minority in the Rakhine state.
The judge claimed the two men “collected and obtained confidential documents.” Prosecutors insisted that the men had...
State Dept. Announces $32 Million in Aid for Rohingya Refugees
I have been documenting the horrors the Rohingya minority are facing in Myanmar and...
Amnesty Int’l: Over 10,000 Hanged by Assad in Syrian Prison
Over the last five years, more than 10,000 people were hanged at Syrian prison Saydnaya. A new report released by Amnesty International indicates that once, sometimes twice a week, 50 people at a time were taken out of their prison cells and hanged to death.
The mass hangings aren’t the only atrocity....
Moroccan TV Airs Makeup Tutorial With Tips to Hide Domestic Abuse
Husband beating you? Forget extracting yourself from the situation, or standing up for yourself. Why bother reporting the abuse to law enforcement? Instead, here are some makeup tips to help you disguise your battered mug…
A state-owned Moroccan TV channel has rightly drawn a world of criticism for airing a video showing...
Will Nuke Deal green light even worse Iranian Human Rights abuses?
Yesterday the Washington Free Beacon reported that that the Obama administration is willing to do whatever it takes to prevent a veto override when Congress votes on the Iran deal.
This morning, CNN hosted a veritable White House press conference about the subject. Former State Department Iran negotiator Hillary Mann Leverett and Obama...
