Russia blasts US for human rights abuses
Moscow, Dec 29 (ANI): Russia has criticized the United States for its human rights abuses, in its first-ever report on injustice in other countries.Continue Reading
Egypt: National and International Human Rights Organizations are Under Attack
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The undersigned organizations are deeply concerned about reports of attacks against NGOs in Egypt. Egyptian security forces, in uniform and in civilian clothes, as well as public prosecu…Continue Reading
Russia scolds United States for human rights abuse
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia sought to undermine the authority of the United States as a global judge of human rights on Wednesday with Moscow’s first report to detail allegations of torture, phone tapping and abuse by the U.S. government. Criticizing the…Continue Reading
Russia scolds United States for human rights abuse
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia sought to undermine the authority of the United States as a global judge of human rights on Wednesday with Moscow's first report to detail allegations of torture, phone tapping and abuse by the U.S. government. Criticizing…Continue Reading
Russia’s Trash-Talking America Just Isn’t What It Used to Be
The Russian Foreign Ministry just posted a scathing overview of the United States’ human rights violation — many of them obviously reference Guantánamo Bay and the Patriot Act — that sort of reads like an old issue of The Nation Magazine. It’s not n…Continue Reading
Cuba making good on pledge to free prisoners
Cuba appeared to be making quick progress in meeting a pledge to free 2,900 pardoned prisoners, most of them convicted of minor crimes, even as a top human rights official on the island criticized the year-end amnesty as a “media show.”Continue Reading
Russia slams US for its human rights record
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
Russia slams US for human rights record
A Russian report attacking Guantanamo Bay and wrongful death row convictions paints the US as hypocritical for lecturing others on human rights.Continue Reading
Syria releases 755 prisoners after human rights group criticism as observers tour Homs
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
HRW accuses Syrian authorities of hiding detainees
Human Rights Watch is accusing Syrian authorities of hiding hundreds of detainees from Arab League monitors now in the country.Continue Reading
Syria hiding detainees from observers: HRW
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
Syria hiding detainees from observers: HRW
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
Syria hiding detainees from observers: HRW
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
Syria: Detainees Hidden From International Monitors
Syrian authorities have transferred perhaps hundreds of detainees to off-limits military sites to hide them from Arab League monitors now in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. The Arab League should insis…Continue Reading
More than 2,500 freed in Cuba amnesty-rights group
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