NEW DELHI — May 13, 2025 The arrest of Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a prominent Muslim academic at Ashoka University, has ignited a firestorm across India and beyond, with critics denouncing the move as politically motivated and emblematic of rising intolerance…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — May 11, 2025 The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a civil rights investigation into the proposed “Epic City” housing development in North Texas—a Muslim-led community project that has become the target of escalating political rhetoric…
RIYADH — Wednesday, May 8, 2025 Dozens of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia have died in gruesome and avoidable workplace incidents as the country accelerates construction for the 2034 FIFA World Cup, according to a new report by Human Rights…
WASHINGTON — Thursday, May 9, 2025 The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments today in a case rooted in former President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order on birthright citizenship. However, the Court will not be ruling on…
BOSTON — Saturday, May 6, 2025 Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk has returned to Boston, one day after being released from a Louisiana immigration detention center where she had been held for more than six weeks. Öztürk, a 30-year-old…
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Tuesday, May 6, 2025 A viral video showing a white Minnesota woman using a racial slur against a 5-year-old Black child at a playground has sparked nationwide outrage — and drawn more than $700,000 in crowdfunding support…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Wednesday, May 7, 2025 A Tennessee jury has acquitted three former Memphis police officers of all state charges — including second-degree murder — in the fatal beating of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, whose death after a traffic stop…
NEW YORK CITY — Wednesday, May 1, 2025 Police evacuated Barnard College’s Milstein Center on Wednesday following a bomb threat that interrupted a pro-Palestinian sit-in protest, prompting the arrest of multiple demonstrators and sparking renewed tensions on the upper Manhattan…
Monday, April 28 – LONDON/CAIRO – The family of imprisoned British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has raised alarm over his deteriorating health and that of his mother, Laila Soueif, as both continue prolonged hunger strikes demanding his release from Egyptian…
Thursday, May 1 | United States – Tens of thousands of protesters flooded streets in nearly 1,000 cities across the United States on Thursday to mark International Workers’ Day with mass demonstrations aimed at defending labor rights and standing in…
