Human Rights
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 08:05
A new leak allegedly reveals that government officials instructed leading media figures to appeal to people’s emotions and encourage them to support Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi during his presidential campaign in 2014.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 07:26
Demonstrators threw stones and set fire to two churches in Niamey, Niger’s capital, on Saturday, as protests continued against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 07:17
Boko Haram says it is building an Islamic state that will revive the glory days of northern Nigeria's medieval Muslim empires, but for those in its territory life is a litany of killings, kidnappings, hunger and economic collapse.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 07:01
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday people in Egypt have the right to demonstrate but cautioned that protesting now could cause more harm to the country's battered economy.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 06:45
After landing at the Rabat airport in 2010, Zakaria Moumni, a former kickboxing world champion, was distressed when he was taken aside by security agents, arrested, blindfolded and taken to a secret facility. The facility where Moumni was taken had been established years earlier as a black site for the CIA to hold “enhanced interrogations” of terrorism suspects.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 06:42
Human Rights Watch has called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to urge Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to free all jailed journalists, rights activists, and government critics
Friday, January 16, 2015 - 07:53
Russian and Armenian officials, who claim to be cooperating on an investigation, so far have offered mixed messages on who holds the right to take the soldier to trial.
Friday, January 16, 2015 - 07:53
Deputy Department Spokesperson Marie Harf speaks on sentence of Saudi human rights lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair
Friday, January 16, 2015 - 07:46
Prominent human rights campaigner Rasul Jafarov has been detained since 2 August on trumped up charges
Friday, January 16, 2015 - 07:16
Police in Mauritania used tear gas to disperse protestors, after three anti-slavery activists were sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday.