Human Rights
Friday, March 20, 2015 - 07:08
An Egyptian court Wednesday sentenced 22 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Mursi to death for an attack on a police station in which one officer was killed.
Friday, March 20, 2015 - 07:00
The Indigenous Community of Santa María de Ostula denounced that on March 16, an operation led by the Navy of Mexico sought to “dismantle control points in which the Community Police maintains in Xayakalan, Caleta de Campos and Tizupan, municipality of Aquila, along the Michoacán coast.”
Friday, March 20, 2015 - 06:45
An Argentine prosecutor asked an appellate court on Thursday to overturn a judge’s decision to dismiss allegations filed against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her political supporters by another prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, days before his mysterious death from a gunshot wound to the head.
Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 07:30
Colombia’s foreign minister on Wednesday openly rejected recent U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, calling on Washington and Caracas to talk.
Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 07:14
The mass disappearance of 43 students that rocked Mexico last fall has triggered a call for action in the U.S. with a national tour including San Antonio.
Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 07:11
Rafael Marques de Morais is facing libel for exposing the horrors of the country’s diamond trade. A veteran investigator, he explains why the situation for journalists is getting worse in the country
Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 06:41
Since Europe closed its borders in 2006, thousands of Eritreans try to flee their repressive country to Israel by crossing the Sinai desert. But there, many are kidnapped by Bedouins and taken to one of the hidden camps where their families are then extorted for ransom.
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 07:03
Egypt’s public prosecutor said on Tuesday that Egyptian activist Shaimaa Sabbagh, whose death in a protest last January sparked outrage, was killed by a police officer.
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 07:01
Kuwait arrested an opposition activist on suspicion of insulting Saudi Arabia on his Twitter account, the state news agency KUNA reported, extending a crackdown on social media.
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 06:53
Shiite militias and Iraqi government forces burned and looted dozens of villages, abducting at least 11 local residents, in the wake of a U.S.-supported operation against the Islamic State last year, a human rights group has charged in a new report.