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Gay rights groups in Turkey expressed alarm Tuesday at a government-led project to build prisons only for criminals who declare themselves gay, saying it...
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A growing black market economy in North Korea is increasingly allowing private citizens to engage in illicit activity that funnels hard currency to the...
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Amnesty International accused the authorities in Algeria on Monday of silencing critics and stepping up curbs on freedom of expression in the run-up to...
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A prominent Chinese legal activist defiantly denounced a court as “absurd” on Friday as it upheld his jail sentence for supporting anti-corruption protests, his...
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A prominent Chinese legal activist defiantly denounced a court as “absurd” on Friday as it upheld his jail sentence for supporting anti-corruption protests, his...
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A retired Spanish policeman denied Thursday torturing people during the country’s Franco dictatorship and repeated his refusal to be extradited to Argentina for trial...
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A thin mist hangs in the air as a handful of troubled souls wander aimlessly around the Bouya Omar mausoleum in central Morocco, the...
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Two Chinese anti-corruption activists went on trial under heavy security Tuesday, in Beijing’s latest strike against a burgeoning rights movement. Ding Jiaxi and Li...
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European states are failing to protect their Roma communities, many of whom live in precarious conditions and are the victims of hate crimes sometimes...
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Agence France-Presse received three honours at the Human Rights Press Awards held in Hong Kong Sunday for articles and photography covering South Asia that...