By Melissa Goh KUALA LUMPUR: In a stuffy corridor at the Duta court complex in Kuala Lumpur, 62-year-old Ramlah sits quietly on a bench. Her 4-year-old grandson sleeps soundly next to her, worn out from […]
A Chinese court says a prominent human rights lawyer, Xie Yang, has admitted being “brainwashed” overseas at his trial for inciting subversion. It released transcripts in which he says he was trained in Hong Kong […]
An Egyptian asylum seeker held in Australian immigration detention for five years without charge or trial, on the basis of information obtained under torture, is having his Interpol Red Notice reviewed by the global policing […]
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By Reuters A prominent Thai human rights lawyer faces a prison term of up to 150 years if convicted on 10 counts of royal defamation under Thailand’s harsh royal insult law, the legal watchdog Thai […]
By Kirk Mitchell | kmitchell@denverpost.com | The Denver Post A Denver civil rights attorney who has handled several death penalty cases across the country has been appointed to defend a man who faces the death […]
One of China’s best-known human rights lawyers has been given a three-year suspended jail term for subverting state power. Li Heping was sentenced in a closed-doors trial, Chinese state media said. He has defended other […]
A Supreme Court of Nova Scotia Judge says the province’s Human Rights Commission must accept a complaint launched by an accessibility group over alleged systemic discrimination by the province. The Human Rights Commission tried to […]
Some 40 human rights groups and other organizations say that U.N.-sponsored Syrian peace talks that will begin in Geneva this week should prioritize five key human rights issues during negotiations. The groups said in a […]
The world-wide independent international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, has released their report for 2017, which indicated that after the Russian Federation’s occupation of the Crimea, the human rights situation in the peninsula deteriorated, […]
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