Human Rights

A German company involved in Syrian chemical attacks has defied a warning from the United States and continues trading with Iran, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. A Syrian photographer had found parts made by German company Krempel in Iranian-produced chemical rockets that were used in chemical...

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Following reports of a new, deadly chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime in Syria, the United States and eight other nations called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, The Hill reported Sunday. Russia, which has backed Syria militarily, and holds veto power in the Security...

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In a hearing of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the son of a terror victim called the world body and a number of its members states accessories in the murder of his father for their failure to condemn the Palestinian Authority’s “pay to slay” scheme, which rewards terrorists and...

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The BBC will appeal to the United Nations in Geneva to protect its staff and their families in Iran as authorities in the Islamic Republic escalate “years of persecution and harassment,” Agence France-Presse reported Monday. BBC Director-General, Tony Hall, said in a statement on Monday that journalists will describe in...

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Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, Tehran’s top prosecutor, announced that the Iranian regime had sentenced a British national to a six-year term in prison for espionage, The Guardian reported Sunday. Jafari-Dolatabadi told the Mizan news agency, which is affiliated with the judiciary, that the dual British-Iranian citizen was sentenced as an “agent of...

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French authorities arrested four Arab teenagers, who are suspected of beating a 14-year-old Jewish boy with a stick and taking away his kippah outside a synagogue in Montmagny, north of Paris. JTA reported that the suspects were detained Wednesday night, after they had attacked their victim around 8 p.m. outside...

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