Cuban authorities are escalating surveillance and harassment of families of political prisoners while denying adequate medical care to jailed dissidents, Amnesty International said Monday. The human rights organization reported that relatives of prisoners of conscience face police cordons around their homes, movement restrictions, and threats, and that these actions are occurring in the absence of The post Cuba escalates surveillance, harassment of political prisoners’ families, Amnesty says appeared first on JURIST – News.

A military drone strike in western Niger killed at least 17 civilians, including four children, and injured at least 13 others when it hit a crowded market on January 6, 2026, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation released Monday. The strike in Kokoloko village in the Tillabéri region killed three Islamic State fighters but The post Military strike that killed 17 Niger civilians may be war crime, investigation finds appeared first on JURIST – News.

Houthi authorities in Yemen have arbitrarily detained more than 20 Christians over the past three months in what Human Rights Watch characterizes as a campaign of enforced disappearances targeting the religious minority, the organization reported Monday. The detentions began in late November and early December 2025, with an expansion on December 24, Christmas Eve, according The post Houthis arbitrarily detain over 20 Christians in Yemen appeared first on JURIST – News.

A judge in Maricopa County Superior Court ordered Friday that Arizona must stop enforcing laws that predate the state’s 2024 Right to Abortion constitutional amendment. Judge Greg Como enjoined the state from enforcing laws that barred abortion if sought for a non-fatal genetic abnormality and that barred the prescription of abortion pills by telehealth.  He The post Arizona state judge strikes down state abortion restrictions appeared first on JURIST – News.