Human rights
Iranian women forced to wash corpses for refusing to wear veil
The punishments highlight a widening crackdown on women and girls, as Iranian MPs vote to review, behind closed doors, new laws that would enshrine penalties.
- by Lucy Cormack
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Australian miner’s exit from Myanmar feared fuelling rogue junta
After the brutal 2021 military coup, the company decided to exit the troubled country and change its name, offloading its majority share in the mine.
- by Chris Barrett
Opinion
Julian Assange
If Albanese’s such a buddy of Biden’s, why is Assange still in jail?
Australia under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in danger of looking like a client state of the USA. It’s all give, and no take.
- by Bob Carr
Police bust syndicate that lured people via social media to sell their kidneys
Indonesian authorities have arrested 12 people, including a police officer and an immigration officer, accused sending 122 people to a hospital to sell their organs.
- by Niniek Karmini
Viral video of sexual assault in India sparks outrage and protest
The video shows two women being paraded naked through a crowd of clothed men who assault them, raising tension in an area already grappling with deadly ethnic clashes.
- by Eve Sampson and Anant Gupta
Obituary
Obituaries
A passion for politics marked a life well travelled
Jo Connolly ventured repeatedly into places less travelled. To the end she remained an engaged supporter of people struggling to preserve life, land and culture.
- by Sharon Connolly
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Hong Kong protests
Taken in for questioning: Hong Kong turns screws on activist’s family
The move comes one week after Hong Kong police placed bounties on the heads of Law and seven other activists who fled Beijing’s security crackdown.
- by Latika Bourke
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Banksia Hill
Solitary confinement of WA children at Banksia Hill illegal, Supreme Court rules
The court found the Department of Justice unlawfully locked three young people in their cells at Banksia Hill Detention Centre and Unit 18 inside an adult prison.
- by Daile Cross
‘Momentous day’ as Australian democracy activist freed from Vietnamese jail
A retired baker from south-western Sydney has been released from a Vietnamese jail and reunited with his family after four years in captivity.
- by Matthew Knott
Taliban orders Afghan beauty salons to close
Women in Afghanistan now have even fewer places to gather in public after the Taliban ordered the closure of beauty salons.
‘He had to trust me now’: Lamisse’s fight to free her dad
When Egyptian-Australian Hazem Hamouda was detained in a Cairo jail without charge, his daughter’s composure saved the day.
- by Susan Horsburgh