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Thai court adds jail time for rights lawyer who urged monarchy reform
WSAU Wausau· 32 minutes agoBANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court sentenced a prominent jailed activist lawyer on Monday to a further two years in prison for royal insults relating to a speech he made at a 2021 protest, his ...
Taliban’s treatment of women under scrutiny at UN rights meeting
WSAU Wausau· 37 minutes agoBy Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban face criticism over their human rights record at a U.N. meeting on Monday, with Washington accusing them of systematically depriving women ...
MP says he was deported from Africa over China criticism
BBC via Yahoo News· 39 minutes agoConservative MP Tim Loughton had sanctions imposed on him in 2021 by China [Getty Images] A...
Washington human rights report condemned
China Daily· 5 hours agoThe Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK, on Saturday denounced a human rights report by the United States as "malignant slander" against the country. In a statement carried by the ...
Opinion | A TikTok Divestiture Is Long Overdue
New York Times· 37 minutes agoMr. Wu is a law professor at Columbia, a contributing Opinion writer and the author of “The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.” China’s...
Passage of harsh anti-LGBTQ+ law in Iraq draws diplomatic backlash
WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke· 23 hours agoHuman rights groups and diplomats criticized a law that was quietly passed by the Iraqi parliament...
Human rights in Saudi Arabia
Amnesty International· 16 hours agoThe authorities targeted individuals for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression or association, and some were sentenced to lengthy prison terms or death following grossly ...
Gangs forced out Haiti’s government. This FBI ‘Most Wanted’ gang leader claims they’re liberating...
CNN via AOL· 40 minutes agoA day with the notorious accused kidnapper Vitelhomme Innocent, whose armed group Kraze Baryé is...
Rep. Katie Porter says the State Dept. is sitting on memos of human rights violations by Israel
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoThe U.S. is still considering providing aid to an Israeli military unit after determining it was...
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at campuses as colleges crack down on encampments
NBC News via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoStudents at dozens of universities in the U.S. and Canada are continuing to protest for Palestinian...
