Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

The mass graves ISIS left behind in Tikrit; the recent murder charge against a police officer in the US is far from the norm; and Israel's arrest of a Palestinian lawmaker for unknown reasons lacks all due process - these were among the most popular posts to Dispatches, our daily forum for breaking human rights news and commentary. You can find all our Dispatches here.

Dispatches: Horror and Revenge in Iraq

Fred Abrahams
The images from Tikrit confirm the worst fears: Iraqi forces that retook the city last week have discovered mass graves...

Dispatches: Holding US Police Who Kill Accountable

Alba Morales
The murder charge against Michael Slager, the South Carolina police officer who fatally shot 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back on April 4, is unusual...

Dispatches: Israel Locks Up Palestinian Lawmaker

Bill Van Esveld
We don’t know whether Israel’s detention of the Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar has anything to do with her passionate advocacy for prisoners’ rights...But one thing is quite clear: her case is rife with due process violations...

Dispatches: Hashtag Injustice via Pakistan's Military Courts

Phelim Kine
The Pakistan military’s public communications arm, the Interservices Public Relations (ISPR), has a new role: tweeting the death penalty verdicts of the country’s military courts, which began trying terrorism cases on January 21...

Dispatches: Malta's Inspiring Gender Recognition Law

Kyle Knight
Joanne Cassar got married in a small town in eastern Malta last night, capping a 9-year battle to win that right as a transgender woman in the deeply Catholic country...