Russia's Foreign Ministry has attacked America's human rights record in its first report on injustice elsewhere in the world, offering examples such as the Guantanamo Bay prison and wrongful death row convictions to paint the U.S. as hypocritic…Continue Reading
A Russian report attacking Guantanamo Bay and wrongful death row convictions paints the US as hypocritical for lecturing others on human rights.Continue Reading
BEIRUT – The Syrian government released Wednesday 755 prisoners detained over the past nine months in the regime’s crackdown on dissent as observers toured a flashpoint city to see whether authorities were complying with an Arab plan to stop the bloods…Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch is accusing Syrian authorities of hiding hundreds of detainees from Arab League monitors now in the country.Continue Reading
NEW YORK (AFP) – Human Rights Watch has accused Syria’s regime of hiding hundreds of detainees held in its crackdown on dissent from Arab observers visiting the country to assess implementation of a peace deal.Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch has accused Syria’s regime of hiding hundreds of detainees held in its crackdown on dissent from Arab observers visiting the country to assess implementation of a peace deal.Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch has accused Syria’s regime of hiding hundreds of detainees held in its crackdown on dissent from Arab observers visiting the country to assess implementation of a peace deal.Continue Reading
HAVANA (Reuters) – More than 2,500 Cuban prisoners have been released in recent days under a New Year’s amnesty announced before a visit next spring by Pope Benedict XVI, a local human rights group said on Tuesday. Cuban President Raul Castro said last…Continue Reading
Advancements in human rights come in either leaps or smaller steps, but far more often in steps. We notice the leaps, of course: In the 1990s, apartheid ended in South Africa and so did communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union; in 2002, the Int…Continue Reading
HAVANA (Reuters) – More than 2,500 Cuban prisoners have been released in recent days under a New Year’s amnesty announced before a visit next spring by Pope Benedict XVI, a local human rights group said on Tuesday. Cuban President Raul Castro said last…Continue Reading
U.N. human rights officials in Haiti are accusing the national police department of excessive force, saying there is evidence officers may have killed at least nine people in the capital.Continue Reading
Lessons from the reorganisation of policing in Northern Ireland could influence efforts to reform law and order in Pakistan, a human rights expert has said.Continue Reading
Canberra, Dec 25 (ANI): An Australian Senator Scott Ludlam has embarked on a European mission to protect the human rights of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who continues fighting a legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crime c…Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will try a veteran dissident, Chen Xi, on charges of “inciting subversion” for pro-democracy essays he published online, his wife said on Sunday, days after another dissident was jailed for nine years on similar charges. Chen,…Continue Reading
BEIJING, China – A veteran Chinese activist has been charged with subversion, a human rights group said Saturday, after another dissident was jailed for nine years in a crackdown aimed at preventing Arab Spring-style democratic uprisings.Continue Reading