Human Rights Watch

Aziz Ansari at the "Good Fortune" Beyond Fest screening held at The Egyptian Theatre on October 06, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Chad Salvador/Variety via Getty Images)

Human Rights Group Declines Aziz Ansari’s Saudi Comedy Fee

Human Rights Watch has said they cannot take Ansari’s money as another comic donates their pay.

Jack Revell

Yegor Bortnik, aka Lyova Bi-2, of the rock band Bi-2 performs at Preto e Prata Hall in Casino Estoril on July 6, 2023, in Estoril, Portugal.

Kremlin Now Going After Famed Anti-Putin Rockers—in Thailand

Russian diplomats have reportedly intervened to keep members of Bi-2 in a crowded jail cell in Thailand, and human rights activists fear they are headed to imprisonment in Russia.

Allison Quinn

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TROPES ON THE CHARLES

Harvard Fellowship Flap Spawns Israel Conspiracy Theories

Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch and his left-wing supporters say his criticisms of Israel cost him an Ivy League gig. Here’s everything wrong with that evidence-free accusation.

Michael A. Cohen

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WAR CRIMES

Russian Troops Executed Teens, Boy on Playground: Report

Civilians were being executed at random during Russia’s invasion of the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions in the early weeks of the war, survivors say.

Allison Quinn

‘CHILLING’

Dystopian New System to Scan Journalists’ Faces in China

A “red” classification translates to a journalist considered to be of “key concern” and alleges they will be “dealt with accordingly,” according to documents.

Kana Ruhalter