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On Thursday July 21, the British High Court made its first ruling in respect of the Mau Mau torture claims brought forward by initially five, now four claimants who were detained and tortured during Kenya’s so-called Emergency. Justice McCoome threw out the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s strikeout application on the grounds of state succession — essentially arguing that any liability for any torture passed to the government of Kenya at Independence — in a strongly worded judgment.
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More than 200 people were injured Saturday in Cairo when antigovernment protesters clashed armed civilians and thugs as demonstrators attempted to march on the Ministry of Defense in the third week of rallies against the ruling military council.
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In the eyes of the corporation, inmate labor is a brilliant strategy in the eternal quest to maximize profit.
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Efforts by the US and British-backed Bahraini regime to repair its international image over human rights violations are in tatters with the revelation that senior members of the oil kingdom’s royal family have been personally involved in torturing hundreds of civilian detainees, including doctors and nurses.
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Videos show troops attacking densely populated parts of country’s third largest city with tank shells and machine guns.
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Beauty is everywhere, and in this photostream photographers highlight the beautiful and artistic side of urban decay to prove it.
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The five corpses floated disfigured and bloating in the murky bottom of the water tank. Wearing green soldiers’ uniforms, the men lay belly down, decomposing in the putrid water.
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Graphic video footage released Monday by the Taliban shows the execution of at least 16 men believed to be Pakistani police officers – a new escalation in the fight for control of a pivotal country in the global war over Islamic extremism.
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A female member of the al-Khalifa royal family in Bahrain has been accused of repeatedly beating the 20-year-old student poet Ayat al-Gormezi when she was in prison accused of reciting a poem at a pro-democracy protest rally criticising the monarchy.
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