"The Iranian government’s investigations into allegations of torture, rape and unlawful killings in the country “seemed to have been more concerned with covering up abuses than getting at the truth”, Amnesty International said today." Well, there's nothing too...
Omar Khadr was arrested on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2002. He is alleged to have murdered a U.S. soldier with a grenade. Supporters of Omar Khadr consider him a child soldier and want him brought back...
Special Correspondent Lynn Sherr and producer Megan Thompson examine the state of gay marriage in Greece. "Homosexuality dates back thousands of years in Ancient Greece, where same-sex relationships were well...
""Killing people for what they did as children is wrong and repellent, and killing them for alleged homosexual conduct is just as wrong and repellent. The Iranian government has flouted its most basic human rights...
Just hours after the shooting of 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a police officer in the Exarchia district of central Athens, hundreds started violent protests that would last for weeks and cost the country...
It’s just like “The Stasi” treated dissidents, except this human rights abuse is happening in Canada today. Some call it no-touch torture. The Stasi called it Zerzetsen.
In an article about the torture of a Canadian citizen at the behest of CSIS in the Sudan, The...
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In a move, reminiscent of pirate movies from the past, demonstrators from Greece, Germany, Italy and France in a flotilla of small boats took to the sea in order to blockade the Greek island of Lesvos (Mytilini)....
Every August 30 human rights groups draw awareness to the world's missing and secretly imprisoned International Day of the Disappeared. International Day of the Disappeared 2009 people, usually political...
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Questions still remain about the fate of 12 under age refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq who disappeared from a shelter in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city. According to reports in the Greek press the 12 were...
Amnesty International has announced that Burmese (Myanmar) pro-democracy leader and Nobel laureate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, is being bestowed its most prestigious honour – the “Ambassador of Conscience” Award for 2009. The announcement of the accolade to in...
Amidst protests by local human rights activists refugees on the Greek island of Chios were taken to detention centres on the Greek mainland in handcuffs. Around 60 recently arrived immigrants were taken by ferry...
Prof. Gerald Steinberg, Executive Director, NGO Monitor spoke at the conference, Hamas, the Gaza War, and Accountability under International Law. hosted by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Steinberg reviewed...
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Amnesty International has released a statement today saying that at least 10 people have been confirmed to have been killed in the Iran elections protests, while the number could be as much as 15, but the additional people have not been confirmed dead. This statement comes as...
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Amnesty International has added its voice to the condemnation of the return to military commissions to deal with the 'detainees' at Guantanamo prison camp. It looks from the outside, as if President...