On 18 May 2007, Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion and political activist, was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. His ticket and passport confiscated, he was taken to a police office and questioned for […]
Fighters for the Islamic State abducted a young Yazidi woman named Nadia Murad, her siblings and their mother from their village in northern Iraq more than two years ago. Barely in her 20s, Ms. Murad […]
STRASBOURG, October 11. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks has decided to cancel his working visit to Russia. He took this decision because he did not agree with a number of […]
On the occasion of ‘World Day against the Death Penalty’, which marks the 35th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in France, Jean-Marc Ayrault, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development and Harlem […]
Following the seizure of their car by the Navajo County Attorney’s Office, an elderly Washington couple, Terry and Maria Platt, are challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s asset forfeiture laws. They are represented by the Institute […]
GENEVA — A prominent Uighur scholar, jailed in China after speaking out against brutal repression in his native Xinjiang (a region in China’s far west), has been named as the winner of a prestigious international […]
KUWAIT: Speaking at a press conference, Chairman of the Kuwait Association for Basic Elements of Human Rights, Dr Yousef Al-Sager, stressed that developments in protecting human rights have led to considerable changes in NGOs’ working […]
The Oman Human Rights Commission (OHRC) took over the Network’s chairmanship at the 13th General Assembly meeting of Arab Human Rights Network in Muscat yesterday. In attendance were renowned Arab, regional and international figures, chairmen […]
The Obama administration wants to restore financial aid to Mexico that it cut last year to protest the country’s human rights record, even though abuses have continued, officials said Thursday. Last year, the State Department […]
A middle school student, Ryan Turk, is accused of cutting in line to steal milk. On the 10th of May Ryan, who receives free lunches, said he had forgotten to take the drink the first […]
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