Human Rights Violation

  • Tomas Ojea Quintana, U.N. special rapporteur for human rights in North Korea, has asked the communist country to release those Koreans believed to be languishing in political prison camps. “I have heard accounts that…the system, the political regime in North Korea, would not survive without the existence of political prison camps,” Ojea Quintana told a…

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  • Kanye West has defended his “art” as “therapy” following a backlash over his new claymation video, in which a likeness of Pete Davidson is decapitated. The 44-year-old rapper has faced criticism over his latest music video, “Eazy”, a violent claymation piece in which kidnaps a Pete Davidson lookalike, throws a bag over his head and…

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  •   A South African teenager who was detained in China says she’ll never leave the country to work overseas again after her month-long detention. Tristan-Lee Niemand, 19, spoke to News24 about her ordeal shortly after landing at OR Tambo International Airport on Saturday. Image taken by Simon Sonnekus shows Tristan-Lee Niemand embracing her father, Richard…

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  • President Donald Trump warned the Iranian government to apply caution on its violation or citizens’ rights and freedom following reports of social media blockade and violence from state security agencies, but President Hassan Rouhani fired back in the most uncivilized manner, telling the American leader to “watch his mouth.” Most citizens of Iran are boldly calling…

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