A car passed, the driver’s window rolled down and the man spat an epithet at two little girls wearing their hijabs: “Terrorist!” It was 2001, mere weeks after the World Trade Center fell, and 10-year-old Shahana Hanif and her younger sister were walking to the local mosque from their...

By Firas Kontar Thanaa al Hussein, une Palestinienne rescapée des camps de la mort du régime syrien. Elle a témoigné du viol et de la torture qu’elle a subis durant six mois et, si elle prend la parole à visage découvert, c’est pour tous les autres détenus des prisons d’Assad....

By Firas Kontar Thanaa al Hussein, a Palestinian survivor of the Syrian regime's death camps. She has testified to the rape and torture she endured for six months, and if she speaks openly, it is for all the other inmates in Assad's prisons. His exceptional courage deserves our...

A young Chinese woman says she was held for eight days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai along with at least two Uyghurs, in what may be the first evidence that China is operating a so-called “black site” beyond its borders. The woman, 26-year-old Wu Huan, was on...