Human Rights Watch

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• China admits it runs illegal black jails to torture citizens who file complaints

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  Source: Telegraph A magazine run by the Chinese government has revealed the existence of a network of secret detention centres or “black jails” in Beijing where inmates are often beaten or tortured. Until now, the Communist Party has strenuously denied running black jails, despite a growing number of ...
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• Britain’s Role in Pakistan Torture: The Human Rights Watch Report

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 606
  Long-time EA readers will know that I have been none-too-happy with the evasions of the British Government over torture in the War on Terror, criticising Foreign Secretary David Miliband for using deceptions as well as court action to prevent the truth from emerging. This week Human Rights Watch brought out a bit ...
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• Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie donate $6.8m

  
  New Chatter — Authority: 136
  Power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie donated $6.8million to charity last year. The Hollywood Reporter obtained the pair’s income tax returns for the year of 2008 which show they gave away $6.8million of their combined fortunes. The A-listers rank among Hollywood’s highest-paid stars and keep several ...
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• Prosecutor Requests International Criminal Court Approval to Probe Kenya’s Post-poll Violence

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  The Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo has disclosed he requested the judges to open formal investigations into Kenya’s 2007 Post elections violence. Ocampo said there had been widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population that constituted crimes against ...
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• None So Blind as Those That Will Not See - Great Britains Support of the Rwandan and Ethiopian Governments an Insult to Universal Human Rights Norms.

  
  World News Journal — Authority: 141
  Human Rights Watch Op-Ed By Jon Elliot 26 November 2009 Britains ambassador to Rwanda, Nicholas Cannon, gave a revealing insight into British policy on Rwanda in his interview with the Rwandan News Agency (RNA) on 17 November. British aid to countries like Rwanda and Ethiopia involves significant sums in budget ...
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• Cruel Britannia: Human Rights Watch Exposes British Complicity In Torture In Pakistan

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 482
  Cruel Britannia: Human Rights Watch Exposes British Complicity In Torture In Pakistan http://www.hrw.org/fr/reports/2009/11/24/cruel-britannia-0   British Complicity in the Torture and Ill-treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan Novembre 24, 2009 This 46-page report provides accounts from ...
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• Protecting civilians in South Sudan

  
  Swords into Plowshares — Authority: 131
  Presbyterians recently initiated, signed and sent an interfaith letter calling for the deployment of United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) peacekeeping forces to protect civilians in South Sudan. The letter went to Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations , the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping ...
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• Man Who Made Predictions on TV Now on Saudi Death Row for Witchcraft

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 612
  A man has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft because he makes predictions on television. Ali Sibat is not even a Saudi national. The Lebanese citizen was only visiting Saudi Arabia on pilgrimage when he was arrested in Medina last year. A court in the city condemned him as a witch on Nov. ...
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• U.S. Refuses To Join NO Landmine Policy

  
  Baby Boomer Advisor Club|Baby Boomer Health and News — Authority: 440
  U.S. Refuses To Join NO Landmine Policy with NATO allies and many other countries in formally banning landmines. According to State Department spokesman, Ian Kelly, “This administration undertook a policy review and we decided our landmine policy remains in effect. We made our policy review and we determined that ...
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• British intelligence knew of terror suspects torture

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  British intelligence officers were aware of the abuse and torture of five terror suspects a five year study by Human Rights Watch has reported.
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• Jolie, Pitt donate over $6.8 million in charities

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov 24 (IANS) Hollywood star Brad Pitt and his partner Angelina Jolie donated over $6.8 million to various charities in 2008.The couple’s Jolie-Pitt Foundation earned over $13 million last year, reported contactmusic.com.A tax return obtained for the organisation shows half that amount was donated to ...
  6 days ago

• Human Right Watch Review

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 142
  US: Federal Court Prosecution of 9/11 Suspects a Key Step Towards Justice >> ...
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• Report Says Castro Brother Retains Tactics of Repression

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Raúl Castro imprisons people on the charge of being “dangerous” and refuses to free scores of people who were imprisoned years ago, Human Rights Watch said,
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• Kyrgyzstan: Release Rights Activists

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 120
  Human Rights Watch (HRW) – (New York) – The Kyrgyz authorities should immediately release the human rights activists Bakhrom Hamroev and Izzatilla Rakhmatillaev and allow them to continue their fact-finding work without further interference, Human Rights Watch said today. See the rest here: Kyrgyzstan: Release ...
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• Cuban-American Says History Being Repeated

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 438
  Following today’s release by Human Rights Watch of “New Castro, Same Cuba,” a 123-page report about conditions on the island nation under Raúl Castro’s government, I decided it appropriate to share excerpts of my recent interview with Rosendo “Marty” Martinez, a St. Louis-area man whose family fled Cuba ...
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• New Castro, Same Cuba

  
  C U B A P O L I D A T A — Authority: 127
  Human Rights Watch released today its 123-page report titled, “New Castro, Same Cuba: Political Prisoners in the Post-Fidel Era,” on the state of political prisoners and repression under Raul Castro’s government.The report “shows how the Raúl Castro government has relied in particular on the Criminal Code ...
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• In Cuba, a Jobless Person Is a Dangerous Person

  
  Economix — Authority: 731
  A human rights report cites the cases of dozens of people charged with "dangerousness" for being unemployed -- but it backs the lifting of the American trade embargo.
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• EU: Urge Russia to Protect Activists

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 120
  Human Rights Watch (HRW) – (Moscow) – European leaders should use the upcoming EU-Russia summit to convey alarm over deteriorating human rights in Russia and to press for concrete improvements, Human Rights Watch said today. The rest is here: EU: Urge Russia to Protect Activists
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• Letter: Tension in Iraqi Kurdistan: An Official’s View

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  To the Editor:.
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• Putting the 9/11 Terrorists on Trial

  
  Very Important Stuff — Authority: 128
  At Outside the Beltway, James Joyner writes about the Obama administration’s decision to put several 9/11 terrorists on trial in a federal court in New York.  Joyner finds several problems with this decision, including an “incredibly good chance” the accused will go free because of tainted evidence obtained ...
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