It apparently took the Chinese Communist government a while to decide how to handle Gao Yu, a 71-year-old journalist prosecuted on what her supporters describe as trumped-up charges for “leaking state secrets.” After five months of deliberation, a court sentenced her to seven years in prison on Friday.
The State Department announced this week that it has received a guarantee from the Cuban government to enter a bilateral dialogue to discuss the extradition of American fugitives out of Cuba to serve their criminal sentences, as well as dialogue with Spain regarding Cuba providing safe haven to members of the Basque terrorist group ETA. The Cuban government has yet to publicly comment on the State Department’s claims.
The Malawian government decided to bring back all their citizens from South Africa due to escalating violence against foreigners.
Iran’s deplorable record on women’s rights did not stop the Islamic Republic from winning a seat on UN Women, a United Nations body that was formed in 2010 to promote women’s empowerment and gender equality.
In his weekly catechesis on the family, Pope Francis chose to reflect on the situation of children Wednesday, calling them “the most beautiful fruit of the blessing that the Creator has given to man and woman.”
The gloves are off. Cue the Hollywood liberal elitists’s two cents, and we’re ready for election time. In fact, we may as well skip the election and just crown a monarch.
The government of North Korea has once again threatened to attack a proposed United Nations field office planned to be built in Seoul and specialize in monitoring human rights abuses perpetrated by the Kim Jong Un regime.
A Vatican statement released on Friday from its UN representative, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, denounces a series of atrocities committed by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) against children in Syria. The statement follows the release of a similar speech on Thursday, which was the first Vatican document to mention the Islamic State by name, rather than the more generic “religious fundamentalism.”
The human rights violations occurring in Venezuela– from thousands of arbitrary arrests to beatings and rapes to the murder of unarmed teenagers– have taken up little of the international spotlight in the past year. They have, however, increasingly caught the attention of human rights groups like Amnesty International, which details and condemns the abuses in a report released this week.
Kampala (AFP) – A row over a law banning homosexuality in Uganda has been reignited after it emerged that the government paid a US public relations firm to offset negative publicity, a report said Monday.
(Reuters) – Thai junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha lashed out at journalists on Wednesday, saying he would “probably just execute” those who did “not report the truth,” in the latest outburst aimed at Thailand’s media.
Things are going so well in Barack Obama’s big foreign-policy “success,” Libya, that people are literally dying to get out. Vice News recently posted a 27-minute documentary video on the hideous conditions in Libya’s “migrant prisons”—internment camps where refugees are left to rot after their attempts to flee the country across the Mediterranean fail.
The fate remains completely uncertain of around 220 Assyrian Christians who continue to be held captive in Syria by the Islamic State terror group.
Executions are rising sharply in Iran, reaching a 12-year high in 2014, according to the United Nations’s Human Rights Council. The UN called this “deeply troubling” and further criticized Iran for not living up to promises that it would protect ethnic and religious minorities, according to a report at Voice of America News.
Lord Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, has called on Christians to regain confidence in their faith and to speak about it. “It is simply a matter of freedom of speech,” he has said. His comments were prompted by a recent report
A community college district in Orange County, California will keep its controversial $105 million consulting contract with two technical schools in Saudi Arabia, despite opponents who say the Middle Eastern country’s human rights record is incompatible with the district’s values.
The Saudi Arabian government has responded with fury to suggestions that its jailing and vicious punishment of a liberal activist was in any way unjustified.
Human Rights lawyers misled an inquiry into allegations that British soldiers had tortured and murdered Iraqi civilians by pursuing the claims long after they knew them to be untrue, a government dossier has alleged. A report on Public Interest Lawyers (PIL), drawn
The Saudi Arabian government released Mayssa al-Amoudi and Loujain al-Hathloul from jail after 72 days after being imprisoned for driving. Women are not allowed to drive in the country.
Xinhua, China’s state news outlet, has published a scathing rebuke of Human Rights Watch following HRW’s criticism of Chinese authoritarianism, and its opinion that a proposed Chinese counter-terrorism law would “legitimate ongoing human rights violations and facilitate future abuses.”
Shocking images from LiveLeak show what appears to be a Syrian man sentenced to death by Islamic State terrorists for being gay. He is thrown from the top of a building and miraculously survives, but after that, the rest of the town can no longer claim ISIS as his killer.
The first round of talks between high-level Cuban and American diplomats since President Obama announced unprecedented concessions to the Castro regime has concluded, with Cuban officials insisting that any changes to the way the communist regime treats dissidents or controls
The diplomatic niceties that followed the death of the King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia yesterday causes a furore as politicians, journalists and campaigners took to social media to express their anger. David Cameron was among many of the world leaders, including
A doctor who skipped bail in New York to avoid trial on charges of child rape has been allowed to stay in Britain after judges ruled that locking him up for a long time would contravene his human rights. 48
Saudi Arabia officials arrested the man who filmed the brutal video of a woman beheaded in public in Mecca. The swordsman murdered Myanmur woman Laila Bint Abdul Muttalib Basim as she screamed her innocence.
