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Ai Weiwei on Beijing's Nightmare City - The Daily Beast

Emerson — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:26:31 +0100

Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don’t care who their neighbors are; they don’t trust you. The other city is one of desperation. I see people on public buses, and I see their eyes, and I see they hold no hope. They can’t even imagine that they’ll be able to buy a house. They come from very poor villages where they’ve never seen electricity or toilet paper.

Source: Ai Weiwei on Beijing's Nightmare City - The Daily Beast

MAN JAILED FOR HOMOSEXUALITY

Serge Frenchbuddy — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:55:26 +0100

Jean-Claude Roger Mbede is a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned solely because of his sexual orientation. Please write to the President of Cameroon demanding his release.

Source: MAN JAILED FOR HOMOSEXUALITY

Without Amnesty I'd be totally alone, says captive's wife

MaryAlex — Fri, 27 May 2011 17:47:03 +0100

A woman whose husband has been imprisoned and tortured in Iraq today paid tribute to the world's biggest human rights organisation.

Source: Without Amnesty I'd be totally alone, says captive's wife

50 years of helping individuals at risk

MaryAlex — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:30:06 +0100

Pakistan Rape Victim Faces New Injustice

LaFemmeMorte — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:49:37 +0100

Every day, Mukhtar Mai faces the trauma of what happened to her. Nine years ago, to punish her for an affair her brother was accused of having, a tribal council ordered that she be repeatedly raped. After the attack, she says she was paraded past scores of villagers. It became the most infamous women's rights case in Pakistan for years. Six suspected rapists were caught, convicted and imprisoned. Pakistan's Supreme Court has decided that all but one of the men previously imprisoned for gang-raping Mukhtar Mai on the orders of tribal elders should have their convictions overturned.

They have now been released.

Source: Pakistan Rape Victim Faces New Injustice

Cuban Prisoners of Conscience in Spain

SamSam — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:05:02 +0100

MSNBC | Manning faces new charges, possible death penalty

miotailtmilidh — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:19:31 +0000

WASHINGTON — Following an intensive seven-month investigation, the Army on Wednesday filed 22 additional charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of illegally downloading tens of thousands of classified U.S. military and State Department documents that were then publicly released by WikiLeaks, military officials tell NBC News.

The most serious of the new charges is "aiding the enemy," a capital offense which carries a potential death sentence.

Source: MSNBC | Manning faces new charges, possible death penalty

Calling for the release of Dr Binayak Sen

cat — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:54:52 +0000

FreeBillyBurton.com

Angela Morris — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:06:40 +0100

Human tv.. youtube channel.

protectthehumanatshoreditchchurch2010 — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:38:04 +0100

Interesting interactivity. showing protect the human project.

Source: Human tv.. youtube channel.

Goldney Garden Party 2010

*cl — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:20:12 +0100

Amnesty's Special Award for Journalism Under Threat goes to...

cat — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:56:32 +0100

Saudi Woman Attacks a Religious Practices Cop - AOL News

unicorn27 — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:50:53 +0100

An angry young Saudi Arabian woman has left her mark on a religious policeman who approached her for illegally socializing with an unmarried young man.

Source: Saudi Woman Attacks a Religious Practices Cop - AOL News

Missing Chinese dissident lawyer Gao Zhisheng 'alive'

DrPot — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:33:31 +0100

Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, missing for more than a year after being detained by police, has spoken to Western journalists.
He said he was living near Wutai mountain, a Buddhist landmark in northern Shanxi province.
"I want to live a quiet life for a while," Mr Gao said by telephone.
He told Reuters news agency he had been released six months ago. He was abducted by police from a relative's house in February 2009.
Reuters said it had taken steps to verify Mr Gao's identity.
Another human rights lawyer said he had also spoken to Mr Gao on Sunday.

Source: Missing Chinese dissident lawyer Gao Zhisheng 'alive'

Inside the world of Obama's secret-service bodyguards

DrPot — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:19:09 +0000

The Southern Poverty Law Center began life in 1971 as a tiny law firm specialising in civil rights cases. It took on the might of the Ku Klux Klan, and was duly rewarded by having its offices razed and its senior lawyers targeted for assassination. But it kept on going and grew to be one of the most respected monitoring groups of rightwing extremism in America today.
Recently it brought out a report called Terror From the Right, which identifies, in chronological order, the serious home-grown plots, conspiracies and racist rampages that have been cooked up in America since the Oklahoma City bomb in 1995...<snip>....... one name crops up time and time again: Barack Obama.

Source: Inside the world of Obama's secret-service bodyguards

G20 RAW - Trailer

PieNMashFilms — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:15:30 +0000

Government's Secret Family Courts - Bill Maloney Reports

PieNMashFilms — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:12:13 +0000

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi loses appeal | World news | guardian.co.uk

DrPot — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:42:31 +0000

The Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi failed in her latest bid to end more than a decade of house arrest today after the country's highest court threw out an appeal against her sentence.
The supreme court's decision was widely expected but her lawyer said he would launch a final special appeal to the supreme court after establishing the reasons why the latest attempt had been rejected. "The court order did not mention any reasons," he said.
The British ambassador Andrew Heyn attended the court session along with diplomats from Australia, France and the US.
"Although the decision comes as no surprise, it is deeply disappointing," he said.

Source: Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi loses appeal | World news | guardian.co.uk

Rachel Corrie's family bring civil suit over human shield's death in Gaza | World news | guardian.co.uk

DrPot — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:39:59 +0000

The family of the American activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago, is to bring a civil suit over her death against the Israeli defence ministry.
The case, which begins on 10 March in Haifa, northern Israel, is seen by her parents as an opportunity to put on public record the events that led to their daughter's death in March 2003. Four key witnesses – three Britons and an American – who were at the scene in Rafah when Corrie was killed will give evidence, according the family lawyer, Hussein Abu Hussein.
The four were all with the International Solidarity Movement, the activist group to which Corrie belonged.

Source: Rachel Corrie's family bring civil suit over human shield's death in Gaza | World news | guardian.co.uk

Sudan signs ceasefire with Darfur rebel group | World news | guardian.co.uk

DrPot — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:35:38 +0000

The Sudanese government and the most powerful rebel group in Darfur have signed a ceasefire intended to lead to a formal peace deal.
The president, Omar al-Bashir, and Khalil Ibrahim, leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), embraced one another after the signing ceremony in Qatar last night, which followed a year of internationally brokered negotiations.
Bashir described the move as a "major step towards ending the war" that began in 2003 and has caused 300,000 deaths, according to the UN.
The absence of other rebel groups from the deal means a wider peace agreement is still not in sight.

Source: Sudan signs ceasefire with Darfur rebel group | World news | guardian.co.uk

Turkish girl, 16, buried alive for talking to boys | World news | guardian.co.uk

DrPot — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:30:02 +0000

Turkish police have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl they say was buried alive by relatives in an "honour" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys.
The girl, who has been identified only by the initials MM, was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre hole dug under a chicken pen outside her home in Kahta, in the south-eastern province of Adiyaman.
Police made the discovery in December after a tip-off from an informant, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on its website.
The girl had previously been reported missing.
The informant told the police she had been killed following a family "council" meeting.

Source: Turkish girl, 16, buried alive for talking to boys | World news | guardian.co.uk

Five Mexican prisoners of conscience

benc — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:11:41 +0000

The Associated Press: Mob, police force nuns to leave Vietnam monastery

Lightowl — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:26:28 +0100

HANOI, Vietnam — Followers of a world-famous Buddhist teacher say police and an angry mob have forced them out of a monastery in central Vietnam, ending a religious experiment in the communist country that turned into a monthslong standoff with authorities.

Followers of Thich Nhat Hanh, an Vietnam-born monk who has popularized Buddhism in the West, said about 150 monks were forced from the Bat Nha monastery in Lam Dong province Sunday, and about 230 nuns left on their own Monday morning.

Source: The Associated Press: Mob, police force nuns to leave Vietnam monastery

BBC NEWS | Health | Torturing 'does not get truth'

DrPot — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:15:32 +0100

Torture techniques used on suspected terrorists by the Bush administration may have failed to get to the truth, researchers say.
Professor Shane O'Mara of Trinity College, Dublin, said the interrogation techniques had a detrimental effect on brain functions related to memory.
He listed 10 methods of what he called torture used by the US, including stress positions and waterboarding.
His review is published in the journal, Trends in Cognitive Science.

Source: BBC NEWS | Health | Torturing 'does not get truth'

Aceh passes adultery stoning law

DrPot — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:25:04 +0100

Indonesia's province of Aceh has passed a new law making adultery punishable by stoning to death, a member of the province's parliament has said.
The law also imposes severe sentences for rape, homosexuality, alcohol consumption and gambling.
Opponents had tried to delay the law, saying more debate was needed because it imposes capital punishment.
Sharia law was partially introduced in Aceh in 2001, as part of a government offer to pacify separatist rebels.

Source: Aceh passes adultery stoning law

My right and fight for a better world is:

Joakimprojekt`s — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:51:31 +0100

I'm an independent. I'm neither left nor right. Or both if you want. I want redistributive justice but not the Nanny State. Diversity but not tolerance of intolerance. Tradition but not inequality and bigotry. Law and order but not discrimination of minorities. Freedom but not license. Democracy promotion but not imperialism. I do believe that almost every problem in life can be reduced to a problem about HUMAN RIGHTS. Human rights are my philosophical passion.

Source: My right and fight for a better world is:

I am facing 21 years in jail for a crime I didn't commit | Life and style | The Guardian

DrPot — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:06:25 +0100

Sometimes I am frightened that the police will do something to my family. They know it wasn't a kidnapping, but they will never admit their mistake. They are very bad people and might retaliate because I am daring to fight back. I know there are lots of people like me in prison. People don't understand that the police just pick you up and take you to prison, where nobody listens to you and nobody believes you.

Source: I am facing 21 years in jail for a crime I didn't commit | Life and style | The Guardian

The Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples || Blog

vero — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:29:16 +0100

Centuries of racism and dispossession have denied Indigenous peoples around the world the opportunity to enjoy such basic human rights as the right of self-determination, the right to cultural identity, the right to life and the right to health.

Source: The Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples || Blog

Happy Birthday Hu Jia

vero — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:26:07 +0100

North Korea Steps up Christian Executions

Wabeywoo — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:01:34 +0100

Human rights groups in South Korea say North Korea has stepped up executions of Christians, some of them in public.

Source: North Korea Steps up Christian Executions