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Amnesty International has called on Pakistan’s government to urgently stop its campaigns of arbitrary detention and harassment launched against the Afghan refugees and asylum seekers, who left their country due to Taliban persecution. The organization said in a statement today,…

The Saudi authorities have executed a Shia young man on accusations of taking part in anti-government protests, as part of its series of executions against the followers of AhlulBayet, peace be upon them. Informed sources and Saudi activists said that…

Tunisian protesters took it to streets to declare their solidarity with political prisoners linked with the “conspiracy against the country’s security” case. According to Arabi21 news outlet, the protesters, including the leaders of the National Liberation Front, the Ennahda Movement…

Reuters News Agency reported that thousands of tombs in the historic Islamic cemetery, known as the City of the Dead, are under threat as a road and bridge expansion project aims to alleviate congestion in Cairo. Conservationists and families have…

The 53rd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council was held in Geneva, focusing on the human rights situation of Afghan women and girls. Although it was expected that the Council would take a more serious position against the…

The office of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, has confirmed that its humanitarian campaigns are continuing to aid Shia families in the city to enable them meet their daily needs. In a statement to Shia Waves…

Ali Al-Miyali, Second Deputy governor of Holy Karbala, announced that the construction of the first phase of the new road connecting Baghdad to the holy city of Karbala has officially started. The project is mainly aimed at facilitating the movement…

Protesting Afghan women have sent an open letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council, demanding “more effective pressure” on the Taliban, just ahead of this council’s meeting on Afghanistan. In this letter, they have asked the international Rights body…

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) has documented more than 65 human rights violations by the ruling regime against the citizens in last May. The rights center said that the violations documented include: subpoenas, arrests, raiding homes and abuse…

Millions of Shia devotees have commemorated the sorrowful anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Mohammed Al-Jawad, peace be upon him, in Holy Kadhimiya, Baghdad. The honorable pilgrims who mourned this occasion came from different Iraqi provinces as well as from…