In 1988, Iran's newly "elected" president, Ebrahim Raisi, "sat on a four-man committee that sent about 5,000 imprisoned government opponents to their deaths...Many were executed in prison even though they had not been sentenced to death."

Note that the law effectively forbids an Israeli Jew married to a Palestinian from West Bank or Gaza from granting the spouse residence status inside Israel. See @saribashi  ’s @haaretz  series

Revolutionary governments such as Iran's may endure because of their utter ruthlessness -- destroying any potential challenger -- but that hardly means they are serving the people of their country rather than perpetuating their power.

The week's trending rights tweets: Hungarian PM Orban plays the homophobia card, the Myanmar junta's brutality deepens, forced starvation faces the people of Ethiopia's Tigray region, Russia threatens to cut off northern Syria from needed humanitarian aid.

A "new study found that 60,000 of the child marriages [in the United States!] since 2000 involved couples w/ a large enough gap in ages that sex would typically be a crime. 'The marriage license became a get-out-of-jail-free card in most of those states.'”

"The continued detention of some of Ethiopia’s most popular opposition leaders, particularly in Oromia, the country’s biggest and most populous region, has eliminated [PM Abiy Ahmed's] main challengers from the vote" tomorrow."

"The Turkish government is 'brazenly boasting' about the 'success' of the country’s intelligence agency in abducting and rendering tens of political opponents of President Erdogan to Turkey" -- an obvious flouting of the rule of law.

I'm not sure who should be more embarrassed, Putin or the US right, for having "portrayed the attack on the Capitol as laudable and racial justice protests as anti-democratic."