BEIJING, 14 MAY – According to a report published by Human Rights Watch, the human rights organization based in New York, the Chinese prostitutes are victims of police abuse. The study, which was conducted by interviewing 140 people
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Council for Human Rights of the Kremlin against the law for NGOs
Monday, Apr 22 2013 Posted in: Articles, Countries, News, Russia
MOSCOW, 22 APR – Even the Kremlin wants to scrap the law on the control of NGOs that is being denounced by human rights organizations around the world. The law that treats NGOs as foreign agents if financed by other countries was passed last year,
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India is dangerous for women, admits Manmohan Singh in Germany
Friday, Apr 12 2013 Posted in: Articles, Countries, India, News
NEW DELHI, 12 APR – India is a dangerous place for women, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said during a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany. Singh replied to the question of a German journalist
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Former Presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov donates 1 million rubles to Human Rights NGO
Thursday, Dec 13 2012 Posted in: Articles, Countries, News, Russia
MOSCOW, 13 DEC – The Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is among the major sponsors who donated to human rights NGO the Moscow Helsinki Group. He contributed 1 million rubles. According to the head activist of the group Lyudmila Alexeyeva,
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134 Nobel winners ask Xi Jinping to release Liu Xiaobo
Wednesday, Dec 5 2012 Posted in: Articles, China, Countries, News
WASHINGTON, 5 DEC – 134 Nobel laureates have signed a letter to the new party secretary Xi Jinping to free fellow Nobel Prize for Peace in 2010, Liu Xiaobo. The whereabouts of the activist, who was sentenced in 2009 to 11 years for subversion, are unknown: he might still be held in a prison in northeast China, according to some newspapers suffering from hepatitis
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Yekaterina Samutsevich appeals to Strasbourg
Friday, Oct 19 2012 Posted in: Articles, News, Russia
MOSCOW, 19 OCT – Yekaterina Samutsevich, the singer of the Pussy Riot released after being sentenced to two years, decided to appeal
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India: woman keeps her children chained for 22 years
Friday, Sep 14 2012 Posted in: Articles, Countries, India, News
AMRITSAR, 14 SEP – Simranjit Kaur, a woman from the village of Baler, near Amritsar in Punjab, has chained hands and feet of her children Kuldeep and Gursahib when they were 8 because she was convinced they had lost their mental balance:
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky donates to charity the compensation money he received from Russia
Thursday, Jul 5 2012 Posted in: Articles, Countries, News, Russia
MOSCOW, 5 JUL – Mikhail Khodorkovsky gave to charity the money he received from Russian state taxation of the European Court for Human Rights. Journalist Olga Romanova wrote on Facebook that her group Russia Behind Bars
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Suspicious death of another journalist from Novaya Gazeta: Yuri Shchekochikhin for suspected poisoning
Wednesday, Jul 4 2012 Posted in: Articles, Countries, News, Russia
MOSCOW, 4 JUL – Another journalist died in the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the same newspaper where Anna Politkovskaya worked, and killed in 2006. Yuri Shchekochikhin, 53, died of a severe allergic reaction after falling into a coma on Saturday.
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Amnesty International: “Human rights violations in the former USSR”
Thursday, May 24 2012 Posted in: Countries, News, Russia
MOSCOW, 24 MAY – Human rights in the countries of the former Soviet Union continue to be trampled. This is the situation highlighted in the latest report from Amnesty International, which says Russia, however, is a mixed case.
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