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A new report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR) based on over 100 complaints reveals that medical professionals are involved in torture and in covering it up, in violation of ethical obligations.
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As Syria’s crackdown on protests has claimed more than 3,000 lives since March, Italian technicians in telecom offices from Damascus to Aleppo have been busy equipping President Bashar al-Assad’s regime with the power to intercept, scan and catalog virtually every e-mail that flows through the country.
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The Occupy Lahore: Anti-Capitalist camp opened on Saturday with over 800 people from different social movements and trade unions across Lahore and Punjab par…
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Around two weeks ago, Saudi Arabian authorities arrested three young video bloggers Firas Buqna, Hussam Al-Darwish and Khaled Al-Rasheed for producing an episode of their show Malub Alena about poverty in one of Riyadh’s areas.
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State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says Monday’s vote triggers a long-standing congressional restriction on funding to U.N. bodies that recognize Palestine as a state before an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is reached.
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State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says Monday’s vote triggers a long-standing congressional restriction on funding to U.N. bodies that recognize Palestine as a state before an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is reached.
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When a social-justice group accompanied by religious leaders showed up to present a letter asking the grocery chain to sign a Fair Food Agreement, no one would open the door…
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The New York Police Department monitors everyone in the city who changes his or her name, according to interviews and internal police documents obtained by The Associated Press. For those whose names sound Arabic or might be from Muslim countries, police run comprehensive background checks that include reviewing travel records, criminal histories, business licenses and immigration documents.
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The U.S. company told the Journal that Syria has been using at least 13 of its devices to censor web activity—an admission that comes amid new reports of Arab Spring bloodshed there. Syria is subject to a broad U.S.
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“We may be immigrants but we are still human beings. This is an experience I don’t want anyone to go [through].” This is just one excerpt from the hundreds of letters we receive at the Immigrants’ Rights Project.
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