Human Rights
3 stories from Middle East Affairs.
Europe's top court drops hundreds of Russian cases, citing limited resources
The European Court of Human Rights has struck 879 applications against Russia from its docket, citing limited resources and lesser significance to legal precedent.
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Assad death sentence leaves survivors seeking deeper reckoning
A Damascus court sentenced Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia in August for war crimes, but Syrian survivors and human rights advocates say the conviction is largely symbolic without prosecution of lower-ranking officials and comprehensive accountability.
Report raises questions about activist's background ahead of deportation hearing
A 101-page report by researchers David Collier and Rachel Feldman questions the accounts given by Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia graduate student facing deportation, claiming his public biography contradicts years of archived social media posts.
