Human Rights
Monday, February 2, 2015 - 06:53
Two women were killed by a rocket-propelled grenade while another died in crossfire between militants and security forces in two separate incidents in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, security and medical sources said on Sunday.
Monday, February 2, 2015 - 06:39
An Egyptian court sentenced 183 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday on charges of killing police officers, part of a sustained crackdown by authorities on Islamists.
Monday, February 2, 2015 - 06:18
A government crackdown over the past year, carried out in the wake of the Euromaidan revolution that toppled the government in Ukraine, has muzzled independent voices and public critics of President Ilham Aliyev’s administration in Azerbaijan.
Friday, January 30, 2015 - 07:31
The United States is concerned by the Ethiopian Federal High Court’s January 28, 2015, decision to proceed with the trial of six bloggers and three independent journalists on charges under the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation.
Friday, January 30, 2015 - 07:27
Investigators are now certain that 43 college students missing since September were killed and incinerated after they were seized by police in southern Guerrero state, the Mexican attorney general said Tuesday.
Friday, January 30, 2015 - 07:26
Kyrgyzstan's government has proposed legislation that would allow it to shut down media outlets without court decisions.
Friday, January 30, 2015 - 07:19
The attorney general closed the case earlier this week saying all angles have been exhausted, but rights groups and experts disagree.
Friday, January 30, 2015 - 06:41
THE EGYPTIAN regime of Abdel Fatah al-Sissi again demonstrated its violent and cynical nature last weekend, as the country marked the fourth anniversary of the popular revolution that overthrew former ruler Hosni Mubarak.
Friday, January 30, 2015 - 06:33
Some of the men were shot on their doorsteps, their bodies left crumpled in the streets. Others were lined up, led to a field and killed there. Their relatives, ordered to stay in their homes, heard the gunfire.
Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 07:25
The governments of Egypt, Syria and Iraq used real and perceived security threats in 2014 as an excuse to downplay or abandon the rights of their citizens, which ultimately fuelled crises, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday.