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Rights group: Turkey newspaper case ‘mockery of justice’
Middle East
September 11, 2017
Rights group: Turkey newspaper case ‘mockery of justice’
A media advocacy group has accused Turkey’s president of trying to silence the country’s main opposition newspaper and free press…
Rights group: China steps up political arrests, prosecutions
World
January 8, 2015
Rights group: China steps up political arrests, prosecutions
China arrested or prosecuted more than 2,300 people for political offences in 2013, the vast majority in secret, an advocacy…
Rights group: Policeman forced suspects to undress, put shoes in mouths
Egypt
October 31, 2012
Rights group: Policeman forced suspects to undress, put shoes in mouths
A local human rights organization is accusing a police officer in Qena Governorate of preventing eight suspects from eating while…
Report blames police states, Obama, Salafism for region’s rights woes
Egypt
December 9, 2009
Report blames police states, Obama, Salafism for region’s rights woes
US-allied Arab regimes remain wedded to a broad array of repressive laws that serve to undermine basic liberties, a leading…
Human rights groups urge Mubarak to regulate worship sites
Egypt
October 12, 2009
Human rights groups urge Mubarak to regulate worship sites
Thirty-six Egyptian human rights groups appealed to President Mubarak yesterday to adopt a unified law for building places of worship.…