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Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Falun Gong Lawsuit Against Cisco

By: Abbie VanSickle —
The court’s decision could have broader implications for lawsuits seeking to hold companies liable for international human rights abuses.

Members of Falun Gong during a protest meditation in Manhattan in 2024. The Chinese government has banned the group.

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What to Know About the Protests in Iran

By: Abdi Latif Dahir and Leily Nikounazar —
Galloping inflation, a currency crisis and anger at the regime have fueled demonstrations across the country.

A photograph released by Iranian state media showing shops in Tehran on Dec. 30 that were closed after protests.

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A Chilling New Tactic in Nicaragua: Arrest, Then Silence

By: Frances Robles —
Nicaragua’s authoritarian government has begun holding dissidents without revealing their whereabouts or acknowledging their detention. Two have turned up dead.

Nicaragua’s co-presidents, Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, in Managua this month in a photograph released by state media.

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I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

By: Omer Bartov —
A professor of Holocaust and genocide studies comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.

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Albert Ojwang Was Killed in Police Custody. Kenyans Are Not About to Let It Go.

By: Eve Sampson and Brian Otieno —
At the funeral for Albert Ojwang, protesters in Kenya said his death was a call to action for the country’s youth.

Young men carried Albert Ojwang’s coffin at his funeral in Kakoth village, Kenya, on Friday.

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At Least 8 Killed as Protesters Battle Police in Kenya

By: Eve Sampson and Abdi Latif Dahir —
Demonstrators joined antigovernment marches across the country a year after huge rallies against a contentious tax plan left more than 60 people dead.

Tear gas and smoke at a protest in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, on Wednesday. As demonstrations flared, banks and businesses in the center of the city were closed amid a heavy police presence.

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Russia Tightens Grip on Wagner Units in Africa, Year After Failed Mutiny

By: Elian Peltier —
Moscow has largely taken over the African operations of the paramilitary group, once led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed after leading an insurrection against Vladimir Putin.

Russian military instructors appeared on state television in Niger after arriving in the capital, Niamey, in April.

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2 Russian Women Put on a Play. Then the State Came for Them.

By: Valerie Hopkins —
The prosecution of a prominent playwright and a director in Russia over their work is a chilling sign of increased repression, cultural figures say.

Yevgenia Berkovich, left, and Svetlana Petriychuk inside a courthouse in Moscow in May. The two are being tried on charges of terrorism relating to the production of their play, “Finist the Brave Falcon.”

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From Free Speech to Free Palestine: Six Decades of Student Protest

By: Richard Fausset —
The protests against Israel’s war in Gaza are merely the latest in a tradition of student-led, left-leaning activism dating back at least to the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s.

Students occupied Columbia’s Hamilton Hall in April 1972.

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Vietnam Is Jailing Environmentalists Who Helped It Secure Billions

By: Sui-Lee Wee —
The government is preparing to present its energy transition plan at the U.N. climate talks as it intensifies a crackdown on environmental advocates.

Solar panels at the Sao Mai power plant in An Giang Province, Vietnam, last year. The country has been awarded $15.5 billion in grants and loans in exchange for a commitment to renewable energy.

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Imprisoned Nobel Winner and Iranian Rights Activist Begins a Hunger Strike

By: Farnaz Fassihi and Cassandra Vinograd —
Narges Mohammadi is protesting the prison’s denial of hospital treatment for her heart condition, her family said.

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi is serving a 10-year sentence in Iran’s Evin prison. “We are extremely worried,” her husband, Taghi Rahmani, said. “Her life is in danger.”

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Ukrainians Embrace Cluster Munitions, but Are They Helping?

By: Lara Jakes and Eric Schmitt —
The weapons, banned by most countries over human rights concerns, are “not a magic wand,” but some Ukrainian troops say they are making a difference in fighting Russian forces.

A Ukrainian soldier firing a 155 mm howitzer, the type of weapon used to launch cluster munitions, in the Donetsk region in March.

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