Human Rights

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Police forces across England and Wales are routinely failing to properly investigate complaints involving the non-consensual taking, sharing or creation of intimate images, according to new research that has prompted a formal police super-complaint. Lawyers and women's rights organisations say the current response to image-based abuse is inconsistent and inadequate, leaving many survivors without effective support while perpetrators...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The World Health Organization has assessed the risk of a wider plague epidemic in Russia as low following the sudden death of a laboratory technician who worked at a research institute studying dangerous pathogens in Siberia. Darya Shipilova, 28, died last week after reportedly falling ill two days earlier. Her death prompted heightened concern because of her work...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A veteran Palestinian photographer working for Agence France-Presse was beaten and injured by armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank while covering violence against Palestinian olive farmers, according to witnesses, family members and fellow journalists. Jaafar Ashtiyeh, 58, was assaulted near the northern West Bank village of Aqraba while reporting on escalating tensions surrounding the annual olive...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Christa Pike, the Tennessee death-row prisoner who survived an attempt by state authorities to execute her last week, is conscious and able to speak while receiving treatment in hospital, her lawyers have said. The 50-year-old woman survived two doses of the sedative pentobarbital during the attempted execution at a prison in Nashville on 30 September. The procedure was...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. More than 250,000 pupils, teachers and parents took to the streets across France on Tuesday in the largest nationwide demonstration yet over deteriorating conditions in secondary schools, as clashes between protesters and riot police intensified in several cities. The demonstrations, held in Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux and other locations, were largely peaceful, but a number of marches...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Meta is facing a new regulatory investigation in the United Kingdom over the safety checks carried out before the launch of Instagram Instants, a disappearing-image feature that has drawn scrutiny from Ofcom under the country’s Online Safety Act. The UK communications regulator is examining whether Meta carried out an adequate risk assessment before introducing the Snapchat-style feature and...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. France is facing a major day of student mobilisation as thousands of high-school and university students take to the streets across the country, joined by teachers, trade unionists, public-sector workers and parents’ organisations demanding improvements to education and learning conditions. The nationwide demonstrations, which have been described as a major escalation of the student movement, are expected to...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Kenya has confirmed its first recorded case of Ebola after a citizen who had been living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) returned to Nairobi and later died, prompting health authorities to begin contact tracing and strengthen measures to prevent further transmission. Kenya’s health minister, Aden Duale, announced the development on Tuesday, saying the patient arrived...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The Delhi government has temporarily suspended the promotion of a senior police officer accused of sexually harassing female journalists during opposition protests in the Indian capital, following growing criticism over the decision to elevate him while complaints against him remain unresolved. The officer, Assistant Commissioner of Police Vivek Bhagat, was among a group of Delhi police officials whose...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has spoken about the severe physical and psychological consequences of her repeated imprisonment, describing brutal treatment by security forces, prolonged solitary confinement and the constant fear that she could be sent back to prison. In an interview, the 54-year-old activist said she was beaten so severely during...