Ms. Wydrzynska, who has been an abortion rights activist in Poland for the past 16 years, said in an interview last summer with The Times that she had always been careful to provide only instructions on buying and using abortion medications, and not to provide the pills themselves. But in February 2020, she said in […]
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Fears rise for a rights activist captured while fighting for Ukraine.
Maksym Butkevych made his name in Ukraine as a journalist and human rights activist, campaigning on behalf of refugees and internally displaced people and serving on the board of Ukraine’s chapter of Amnesty International. At the end of June, he was captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine, and his hard-earned reputation became a […]