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
A human rights group says another veteran Chinese activist has been charged with subversion as Beijing tries to prevent the spread of Arab Spring-style democratic uprisings.Continue Reading
PRAGUE (Reuters) – International leaders bade farewell on Friday to former Czech President Vaclav Havel, the anti-communist dissident who led the peaceful “Velvet Revolution” and inspired human rights campaigners around the world. U.S. Secretary of Sta…Continue Reading
Essex Conservative MP Jeff Watson supports a colleague’s call for parliamentary discussion about whether to give human rights to the unborn.Continue Reading
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai will replace four people at the national human rights commission to bring fresh blood into the group, and not because he is seeking to remove some of his most outspoken critics, his spokesman said on Frid…Continue Reading
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai will replace four people at the national human rights commission to bring fresh blood into the group, and not because he is seeking to remove some of his most outspoken critics, his spokesman said on Frid…Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – A United Nations human rights body denounced on Friday the detention of one of China’s best known human rights lawyers, Gao Zhisheng, urging the government to release him. A Beijing court sent Gao back to jail earlier this month, th…Continue Reading
BEIJING (Reuters) – Human rights advocate Chen Wei was sentenced to nine years in jail by a court in southwest China after a brief hearing on Friday in which he pleaded not guilty to subverting state power, the stiffest punishment in a crackdown on dis…Continue Reading
Afghanistan’s leading human rights activist said Friday that President Hamid Karzai has fired him and two others from the government’s own rights commission.Continue Reading
Afghanistan’s most outspoken human rights activist has been dropped from the national rights commission, President Hamid Karzai’s spokesman confirmed Friday.Continue Reading
Security forces killed at least 24 people and “arbitrarily” arrested dozens more in the Democratic Republic of Congo since Joseph Kabila’s contested re-election on December 9, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.Continue Reading
Security forces killed at least 24 people and “arbitrarily” arrested dozens more in the Democratic Republic of Congo since Joseph Kabila’s contested re-election on December 9, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.Continue Reading
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s presidential human rights council on Wednesday recommended to investigators that jailed ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s second sentence, which will keep him in prison until 2016, be reviewed. The recommendation is the stron…Continue Reading
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Nation’s top human rights official said on Wednesday Bahrain was failing to prosecute security forces who tortured people during anti-government protests in February and was still using excessive force against civilians. “W…Continue Reading
Angola’s government must account for a staggering $32 billion missing from state coffers in a country where most suffer immense poverty despite the nation’s massive oil wealth, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.Continue Reading