Human Rights
Monday, August 5, 2013 - 12:37
A recent Brookings Institute policy paper, “No ‘Plan B’: U.S. Strategic Access in the Middle East and the Question of Bahrain,” makes an important case for the need for U.S. contingency planning in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain in the event that the U.S. were to lose access to its naval base in the country.
Monday, August 5, 2013 - 10:36
Kazakhstan's Supreme Court has refused to review the case of jailed opposition leader Vladimir Kozlov.
At a session on August 5, Supreme Court Judge Moryak Shegenov ruled that "there are no grounds" to do so.
Monday, August 5, 2013 - 00:00
The five named Sunday are the only ones Amnesty currently recognizes as prisoners of conscience in Cuba.
Monday, August 5, 2013 - 00:00
Twenty-five police have been given long sentences for their part in the 1992 massacre in Sao Paulo's Carandiru jail that left 111 prisoners dead.
Monday, August 5, 2013 - 00:00
El proceso ha tenido un efecto ya evidente. Y es que se han activado y estan muy empoderados los sindicatos mas ligados al Partido Comunista, que ahora se llama Marcha Patriotica.
Friday, August 2, 2013 - 14:09
Kyrgyzstan has retained a Washington law firm to help it convince U.S. authorities to reopen a closed securities fraud case against Maksim Bakiyev, the son of the former president who was forced out of office in 2010.
Friday, August 2, 2013 - 14:04
The human rights organizations have come to a conclusion that the events that took place in Khorog last summer raise serious issues in the field of human rights and decided to conduct an independent survey on the situation that emerged in the region
Friday, August 2, 2013 - 00:00
Soon after the killing, authorities announced that the crime was related to a personal matter. However, RSF asked that his work not be ruled out as a possible motive.
Friday, August 2, 2013 - 00:00
A Honduran tribunal has convicted four police officers in the 2011 killing of the son of the president of Honduras National Autonomous University and his friend.
Friday, August 2, 2013 - 00:00
Na noite de 14 de julho, quando o auxiliar de pedreiro Amarildo de Souza desapareceu depois de ser levado por policiais para a sede da Unidade de Policia Pacificadora (UPP) da Rocinha, as viaturas da unidade estavam com o GPS desligado.