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A 20 year old boy in Jammu and Kashmir is brutally tortured by the police – leaving him partially paralysed. While the Chief Minister has ordered a probe into the matter – what is worse is that the police admit that there is no case against the victim.
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This video shows how racial profiling takes place in a mall of Doha, Qatar, where the security will only allow Westerners and Arabs in a particular mall.
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Watch Charlie Rose’s interview with Hadi Ghaemi of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Haleh Esfandiari, Director of the Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, & Ervand Abrahamian of Baruch College on the current climate of reform in Iran
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Online anonymity has been taking a beating recently, with the Gay Girl in Damascus affair and a recent piece by the former ombudsman at NPR criticizing anonymous comments.
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Eynulla Fatullayev, freed after Amnesty members campaigned for his release, expresses his thanks to those who took action to ensure his freedom.
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The real gay men and women in Damascus – and Dubai, Cairo, and Amman – are facing more serious problems than confused Internet identities.
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The PSA (Public Safety Act) accounts for a great number of painful stories of detentions in Indian-administered Kashmir. Though, theoretically, the act is a preventive detention law for maintaining law and order, it has, in many cases, appeared to be a means of suppressing the voices of people in Kashmir.
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Guantánamo guards and cooperative captives alike are grappling with the stench of prisoners who have made themselves filthy inside the Pentagons maximum-security Supermax-style prison in southeast Cuba.
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New York’s state Assembly Wednesday night approved a same-sex marriage bill, sending it to the Senate, where it faces a closer vote.
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A British student is facing extradition to the United States and up to five years in jail for running a website that offered links to pirated films and television shows.
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