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The International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, has welcomed the decision of the Saudi authorities to release the activist Loujain Al-Hathoul and some prisoners of conscience, calling for all judicial decisions to be dropped for those convicted of human rights cases.The…

Niger witnessed the commencement of building the first Husseiniyyah and Islamic seminary for women, in the presence of a group of religious figures and general followers of the Ahlulbayt, peace be upon them.This comes with the efforts of the Sayyed…

As part of its charitable and humanitarian activities, the Misbah al-Hussein Foundation for Relief and Development in the holy city of Karbala, which operates under the supervision of the Office of the Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Sayyed…

The International Shia Rights Watch organization expressed its condemnation of the sectarian rulings recently issued by Saudi courts against a number of young Shias for their participation in peaceful religious events inside the Kingdom.In a statement, the organization calls for…

Ten years after Bahrain’s popular uprising, systemic injustice has intensified and political repression targeting dissidents, human rights defenders, clerics and independent civil society have effectively shut any space for the peaceful exercise of the right to freedom of expression or…

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar on Wednesday said that security forces in the country must “stand down before there are more casualties” among protesters, amid reports of use of lethal force against those…

The Bahraini Ministry of Interior announced that a prisoner in Jaw Central Prison had been infected with the Coronavirus, indicating that it had quarantined those in contact with him.The Ministry said, “The General Administration for Reform and Rehabilitation has taken…

The International Council of Museums (ICOM), under the supervision of UNESCO, has commended the display of Imam Redha Holy Shrine Museum during the coronavirus pandemic in cyberspace and for facilitating public access to the museum.Sayyed Jalal Husseini, head of the…

An official delegation from the Vatican arrived in Najaf in preparation for the upcoming visit of Pope Francis with the religious authority.The papal delegation went to the old city and met with the office of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Sistani.Head…

A human rights letter, signed by more than 100 prominent international human rights organizations and foreign ministers of governments around the world, warned against the efforts of the government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to eliminate the human rights…