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The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran cites “local knowledgeable sources” saying 12 prisoners were executed on Wednesday June 29 and another 18 were hanged on the following Sunday.
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Sexual violence is one of the most horrific weapons of war, an instrument of terror used against women. Yet huge numbers of men are also victims.
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Increasing numbers of children are dropping dead on the long trek to refugee camps. Those who do get there are more severely malnourished than ever before.
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Scahill says the CIA is training a new Somali force to conduct operations in the areas controlled by the militant group, Al Shabab, and in Mogadishu. While a U.S. official told The Nation that the CIA does not run the prison, he acknowledged the CIA pays the salaries of Somali agents.
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Since 2008, federal judges have authorized at least two dozen warrants to search individuals’ Facebook accounts, often gaining access to users’ accounts without their knowledge.
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When an upstate imam named Yassin Aref was convicted on a suspect terrorism charge, he was sent to a secretive prison denounced by civil libertarians as a Muslim quarantine.
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A deputy managing editor at The Associated Press has issued a formal warning to the company’s employees after two journalists voiced their opinions on New York’s approval of gay marriage and the Casey Anthony murder trial on social media sites.
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Camp in northeastern Kenya overflows with people in search of food and water as they flee drought-stricken region.
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Ninety law profs from across the political spectrum agree: the PROTECT IP Act, Hollywood’s latest anti-piracy proposal, would be an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment.
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Hacking has been around for a long time, but now with social networking, publicized hacking groups with quirky personalities, and the increasing importance of the internet, we’ve been hearing a lot more about it recently.
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