Posts Tagged ‘rights-group’

Gaddafi loyalists ‘were executed’

Monday, October 24th, 2011

The bodies of 53 Gaddafi supporters are found dead outside a hotel in the town of Sirte after apparently being executed, a rights group says.

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Syria accused of Deraa ‘massacre’

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

A Syrian rights group accuses President Assad’s regime of carrying out “ten days of massacres” against protesters in the southern city of Deraa.

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Syria accused of Deraa ‘massacre’

Independent watchers at cuts demo

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Human rights group Liberty is asked to independently monitor a march in London against spending cuts.

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Independent watchers at cuts demo

Report: 6 wounded in Yemen

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Protests in Yemen on Saturday spiraled into gunfire outside the gates of Sanaa University, eyewitnesses and a local human rights group said.

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Cuba commutes last death sentence

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Cuba’s Supreme Tribunal commutes the sentence of Humberto Eladio Real, the country’s last death row inmate, a rights group says.

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Is Your New Mobile Phone Made With Conflict Minerals?

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Enough Project names 21 companies that use minerals at the heart of the Congo conflict. Nairobi, Kenya – What’s the true cost of that mobile phone in your pocket? That’s the big question human rights group Enough Project wants you to ponder this year as it urges holiday consumers to be strategic when buying electronic gifts. read more

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Morocco ‘abused Sahara detainees’

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

A rights group accuses Morocco of abusing hundreds of people detained after a raid on a protest camp in Western Sahara.

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Iranian lawyer on hunger strike

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Jailed Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is in a serious condition after going on hunger strike, a New York-based Iranian rights group says.

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Fears grow for Iran stoning woman

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Concerns grow over the fate of an Iranian woman originally sentenced to death by stoning after a rights group says she could be executed soon.

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Nigeria rapped for mass evictions

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Plans to redevelop Nigeria’s oil capital of Port Harcourt – which have already sparked violent clashes – could leave 200,000 people homeless, warns the rights group Amnesty International.

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Tea Party Vow to Police Vote Fraud Is Called Scare Tactic

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

Voting rights group say that Tea Party members’ plan to question voters’ eligibility at the polls is intended to suppress minority and poor voters.

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Tea Party Vow to Police Vote Fraud Is Called Scare Tactic

Tibetan student protests ‘spread’

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Protests by ethnic Tibetan students over the right to study in their language spread in China, according to a rights group and state media.

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Tibetan students protest in China

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

At least 1,000 Tibetan students in north-west China protest against new curbs on the use of their language, a rights group says.

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Ethiopia ‘swapped aid for votes’

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Ethiopia’s government has been denying foreign aid to opposition supporters, a rights group says.

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Ethiopia ‘swapped aid for votes’

Sex trafficking fears over Games

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Thousands of women from India’s north-east have been hired by escort agencies for the Commonwealth Games, a rights group says.

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