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The U.N.’s human rights office has criticized a sharp rise in executions carried out by Saudi Arabia in 2011.Continue Reading

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday said it was alarmed at the almost threefold increase in the use of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia last year.Continue Reading

Israeli human rights groups said Thursday that the country’s Supreme Court had rejected their petition to overturn a contentious law penalising Arab mourning of the Jewish state’s founding.Continue Reading

New Zealand has added its voice to mounting international condemnation of human rights abuses in Fiji since last December’s coup.Continue Reading

The incoming UN Security Council president has called for an investigation into human rights abuses committed during NATO’s bombing of Libya.Continue Reading

The incoming U.N. Security Council president called Wednesday for an investigation into human rights abuses committed during NATO’s bombing campaign to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.Continue Reading

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian police detained four activists on Tuesday for putting up posters critical of the ruling military council, a step a human rights lawyer said was part of an effort to neutralise the protest movement. The military council, in po…Continue Reading

Baghdad, Jan 3 (IANS) Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi Monday criticised the massive human rights violations in the country.Continue Reading

Ten percent of the seats in a proposed Libyan constituent assembly will be reserved for women, a draft electoral law published on Monday said, triggering harsh reaction from a human rights watchdog.Continue Reading

Iraq’s parliament speaker warned Monday that human rights violations are putting the country’s fragile democracy at risk, the latest pronouncement in a rapidly developing sectarian spat that threatens to destabilize the country after U.S. troops pulled…Continue Reading

Parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi slammed the human rights situation in Iraq on Monday, arguing that “massive” violations were destroying its democracy just as it grapples with a festering political row.Continue Reading

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt's government on Sunday denied accusations from human rights groups that it was trying to smother some of the ruling military council's most vocal opponents when it raided the offices of 17 non-governmental organisations …Continue Reading

Parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi slammed the human rights situation in Iraq on Monday, arguing that “massive” violations were destroying its democracy just as it grapples with a festering political row.Continue Reading

Mexican human rights authorities say five men detained in the killings of two agents and a car-bomb attack in Ciudad Juarez were tortured by federal police to confess their roles in the crimes.Continue Reading