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Two prominent Chinese political activists went on trial Friday for helping to organise small-scale protests against censorship, their lawyer said, the latest prosecution in...
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Human rights groups Friday condemned the Thai authorities for sentencing five alleged Muslim separatists to death, saying the punishment would do little to promote...
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As many as 25 Venezuelan hunger striking inmates have died, a rights group said Thursday, after they drank what prison authorities said was a...
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Malaysia’s prime minister on Thursday abandoned plans to repeal a controversial sedition law increasingly used against his regime’s political opponents, as the opposition warned...
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Thirteen Venezuelan inmates who had been on a hunger strike over prison conditions died after drinking a cocktail of prescription drugs and grain alcohol,...
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Turkish prosecutors on Wednesday sought life imprisonment for a police officer accused of beating a teenager to death during last year’s mass anti-government protests,...
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British Muslim rights groups and ordinary faithful said they felt singled out by a tough new anti-terror law unveiled on Wednesday, labelling the planned...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, under pressure over Pyongyang’s human rights record, has toured a museum dedicated to alleged atrocities by US forces during...
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Tanzania’s president has vowed never to evict the Maasai people from their traditional lands, which activists claimed were threatened by plans for a hunting...
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North Korea’s top military body warned Sunday of “catastrophic consequences” for supporters of a UN resolution censuring its human rights record, as state media...