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In the last two decades, leading information, communications, and technology (ICT) companies have sold goods and services to repressive governments, enabling them to dramatically improve their surveillance and intelligence capabilities as well as control the flow of information from the outside world.
Via forbes.com
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US National Democratic Institute among 17 organisations targeted as part of inquiry into funding of civic society groups…
Via guardian.co.uk
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Authorities slow to investigate the brutal deaths of more than 100 prisoners and an officer in revolution’s early days.
Via globalpost.com
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The crackdown led to an estimated 36 deaths and more than 500 injuries, as well as numerous accounts of torture…
Via time.com
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At least eight Tibetan monks, two of them teenagers, have torched themselves this year to protest Chinese rule.
Via time.com
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A majority of 28 mostly European countries have failed to comply with freedom of information requests about their involvement in secret CIA flights carrying suspected terrorists, two human rights groups said Monday.
Via publicintelligence.net
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In a case that has highlighted Israel’s abuse of Palestinian detainees, an Israeli military court recently acquitted a Palestinian man after it became clear that Israeli interrogators used physical and psychological abuse as a way to coerce a confession from him.
Via electronicintifada.net
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“Torture is widespread,” according to the report, with over 700 cases reported to a single NGO in the period 2008-2009. Those most at risk include those in prison, non-Lebanese, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexualindividuals, drug addicts and women and children.
Via bikyamasr.com
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This is the second part of a 3-part series about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that began with “Another Assault in the Dead of Night“.
Via constitutioncampaign.org
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Ten years ago, Congress enacted a draconian law with no transparency, regard for process, or even awareness of the profound erosion of constitutional rights the PATRIOT Act would entail. Congress did it again this holiday season, repeating its abdication of its constitutional role by authorizing, in the National Defense Authorization Act, indefinite military detention of even US citizens.
Via constitutioncampaign.org
