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Zimbabwe Police Think Strong Women Deserve Men's Prison
A human rights lawyer at court representing other WOZA/MOZA detainees was told by police to inform Jenni and Magodonga they should prepare for a long detention…in a men’s prison because…
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Detained Journalist Interrogated on Libyan State Television
A detained foreign journalist is 'interrogated' on Libyan TV in footage Amnesty International released today. Amnesty is gravely concerned for the safety of Rana El-Aqbani.
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Libya's Campaign To Discredit Eman al-Obeidi After Rape Allegations
The Libyan authorities have been carrying out a smear campaign against Eman al-Obeidi, who is now being sued by those she says raped her.
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Shine A Light On Worker's Rights
On April 4th people across the country will come together in support of worker's rights and against the current assault on worker's rights playing out in various US states.
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Ivory Coast on Brink of Human Rights Catastrophe
Months after disputed presidential elections in Cote D’Ivoire, the country seems to move towards the final showdown. Hundreds of thousands of people have already fled the spreading crisis, and the…
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Big Oil, Poisoned Water, And Nigeria
Oil companies spill more oil into the Niger Delta each year than was spilled as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster that devastated the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
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Denmark Company Supplies Major U.S. Executioners
Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck has sold pentobarbital to four of the most prolific executing states in the U.S.: Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas. These states already have, and will continue…
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Gaddafi's Campaign Of Disappearances
Libyan forces loyal to Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi have carried out a campaign of enforced disappearances of government critics, writers, journalists, pro-democracy activists -- and even children -- to crush growing…
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Death threats for law school exam complaints
You wouldn't expect to receive death threats for complaining that an exam was unfairly administered, would you? You wouldn't expect to be abducted for telling school officials that a test…
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Libya: Campaign of enforced disappearances must end
In this briefing Amnesty International expresses its concern for the safety of those currently being held by forces loyal to Colonel al-Gaddafi. Many people have been subjected to enforced disappearance…
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Mohammed al-Odaini Released from Guantanamo!
On July 13, 2010 Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed al-Odaini was released from Guantánamo back to his home country of Yemen.
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Release of Uighur brothers from Guantanamo
Two Uighur brothers being held at Guantanamo, Bahtiyar Mahnut and Arkin Mahmud, were resettled in Switzerland.