Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

Pakistan mulls a tricky execution; Saudi women can vote and stand in an upcoming election - it's a start; and in Crimea, it's best to keep to just keep quiet - these were among the most popular posts to Dispatches, our daily forum for breaking human rights news and commentary.

Dispatches: Pakistan's Death Row Dilemma

Shantha Rau Barriga
Abdul Basit, a 43-year-old prisoner paralyzed from the waist down after developing tuberculosis in prison in 2010, will likely go to the gallows in his wheelchair in the next few days...

Dispatches: Saudi Women Registering to Vote is a Start

Adam Coogle
Saudi Arabia took a significant step forward this week by allowing women for the first time to both register to vote and to run for office in the municipal elections due to take place in December...

Dispatches: Crimea - Keep Quiet or Else

Yulia Gorbunova & Tanya Lokshina
A Russian military court has just sentenced a Ukrainian filmmaker from Crimea, Oleg Sentsov, to 20 years in jail for supposedly running a “terrorist organization.”...

Dispatches: Volunteer Lifeline for Asylum Seekers in Hungary

Lydia Gall
Tuesday, 8:07 p.m. at the Nyugati train station in Budapest, the latest train arrives from the Hungarian border town of Szeged carrying migrants and asylum seekers who came via Serbia. Volunteers from the nongovernmental group Migration Aid are standing by to greet them and offer food, clothing, and advice...

Dispatches: US Raid on Rentboy is a Raid on Rights

Graeme Reid
What are multiple United States law enforcement agencies doing shutting down Rentboy.com, a website serving male escorts and their male clients?...