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The arrest of eight Mexican troops over the killing of 22 people highlights President Enrique Pena Nieto’s dilemma of fighting the drug war with...
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The UN Human Rights Council on Friday urged countries to step up efforts to stem the string of sea tragedies that claim the lives...
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The Lech Walesa foundation on Thursday awarded its annual freedom prize to the Euromaidan protest movement that helped topple Ukraine’s pro-Moscow government earlier this...
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A prominent Chinese scholar from the mostly-Muslim Uighur ethnic group was jailed for life because of remarks he made in a university class about...
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Fugitive US intelligence agent Edward Snowden was jointly awarded a Swedish human rights award on Wednesday. “The 2014 Right Livelihood Honorary Award goes to...
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A trial that some have dubbed the “Romanian Nuremberg” opens Wednesday in Bucharest, with the head of a brutal communist-era labour camp, known as...
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The death toll in Ukraine’s conflict has soared past 3,000, likely by a significant margin, top UN human rights official Ivan Simonovic said Tuesday....
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For a project whose end goal might be the removal from power of President Vladimir Putin, it had a very inauspicious start. During a...
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Ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who spent a decade in jail after challenging the Kremlin, openly stated his political ambitions on Saturday by announcing he would...
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From electric shocks and sexual violence to ripping out nails and teeth to extract confessions, torture has become so commonplace in Nigeria’s criminal justice...