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Rights group: Turkey newspaper case ‘mockery of justice’
Middle East

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

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

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

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

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.…
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