But presses China to improve human rights.

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Obama Avoids Discussing Chen

The Jordanian authorities are violating people’s right to free speech and undermining the credibility of reform efforts, Human Rights Watch says.

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Jordan ‘suppressing free speech’

(New York) – Amnesty International today condemned the delaying tactics of a Bahrain court — after the second postponement of an appeals hearing for 14 jailed activists — in light of the critical condition of prominent activist Addulhadi al-Khawaja, who is on his 75th day of a hunger strike. The human rights organization said Bahrain is “toying” with al-Khawaja’s life and demanded his release, along with the other 13 activists.

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Amnesty International Says Bahrain Court Is “Toying” With Life of Hunger Striker

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke says an agreement reached at a conference in Brighton will make “a big difference” to the operation of the European Court of Human Rights.

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Clarke hails deal to reform court

Radical cleric Abu Qatada cannot be deported yet from Britain, the European Court of Human Rights says, after an appeal was lodged.

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Abu Qatada deportation appealed

Human rights are still being violated in Bahrain despite promises of reform, according to the campaign group Amnesty International.

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Human rights ‘crisis’ in Bahrain

A brother and sister from Germany, who had an incestuous relationship and claimed the right to a family life, lose their case at the European Court of Human Rights.

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German incest pair lose in court

BEIRUT — An uneasy calm descended on Syria on Thursday indicating that both the government and rebels were keeping their promises to observe a U.N.-brokered cease-fire which went into effect at dawn. “Everywhere is quiet,” said Rami Abdelrahman of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors reports of violence on a daily basis. “We have no shooting or shelling in all of Syria.” Read full article > >

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Uneasy calm in Syria as cease-fire appears to hold

Syrian security forces have summarily executed at least 101 people, including civilians, since late 2011 in attacks on cities and towns, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday.

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Report details 100 executions

A leading human rights activist in Bahrain is transferred to hospital from prison after nearly two months on hunger strike.

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Bahrain hunger-striker in clinic

Amnesty International has demanded the jailed Bahraini human rights activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, be released “immediately and unconditionally”.

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Bahrain activist’s release urged

Hundreds of Afghan women are in jail for “moral crimes”, including running away and extra-marital sex, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.

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Afghan women are ‘wrongly jailed’

Israel has cut working relations with the UN Human Rights Council, officials say, after it decided to investigate settlements in the West Bank.

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Israel escalates UN rights spat

There’s a new beauty pageant scandal to catch up on, and it’s a doozy: Jenna Talackova was abruptly disqualified from the Miss Canada Universe pageant — a Trump -owned feeder for the Miss Universe show — after word got around that she was born male. Talackova, 22, has said she began hormone treatments at 14 and had sex-change surgery at 19. She told the Vancouver Sun she considered her ouster a “human rights” issue. Pageant reps said only that she did not meet competition requirements. Read full article > >

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In other news. . . . : Miss Canada Universe contestant disqualified over sex change

A Sri Lankan cabinet minister threatens violence against journalists and human rights activists who he says have been opposing the government.

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S Lanka minister in media threat