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Amnesty Bemoans Cost of Gulf Crisis On Human Rights

Amnesty International warned Saturday of the "heartbreak and fear" being suffered by potentially thousands of ordinary...

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Activists Who Probed Ivanka Trump Supplier Risk Jail

Activists detained while investigating working conditions at a Chinese factory making Ivanka Trump-branded shoes could...

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Turkey Amnesty Head Arrested Over Alleged Gulen Links

The head of Amnesty International in Turkey was arrested Tuesday over suspected links to the movement of cleric...

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Shutdown For 50th Anniversary of Biafra Declaration

Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since the declaration of...

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Shut-Down For 50th Anniversary of Biafra Declaration

Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since an independent...

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Cambodia Wielding ‘court of Injustice’ Ahead of Polls

Cambodia's government has ramped up use of the courts to harass political activists and rights defenders ahead of...

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Jailed UAE Lawyer Awarded Major Human Rights Prize

A UAE lawyer sentenced to 10 years in 2013 for plotting against the regime was on Saturday awarded a major human rights...

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Zambia Extends Detention of Opposition Leader

Hundreds of supporters of Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema protested outside court on Friday when a judge...

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‘Leave Saudi Now Or You’re On Your Own’

The Ghanaian Embassy in Saudi Arabia has warned all Ghanaians staying there illegally to take advantage of an amnesty...

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‘Don’t Travel To Saudi If You’re Unskilled’

There have been reports of abuse of Ghanaians who have taken up jobs in oil-rich states The Ghana Embassy in Saudi...

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Over 500 Ghanaians To Be Repatriated From Saudi Arabia

The Ghana Embassy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has appealed to Ghanaians living in Saudi Arabia without residency and...

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Over 500 Ghanaians Illegally Staying In Saudi Arabia To Be Sent Home

More than 500 Ghanaians living in Saudi Arabia without the necessary residency and work permits have been processed to...

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Jailed Chinese Lawyer Force-Fed Medication, Wife Says

When human rights lawyer Li Heping returned to his home in Beijing after a two-year incarceration, his wife did not...

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Bahrain Police Fire On Shiite Protest, One Reported Dead

Bahraini police opened fire Tuesday on a protest by supporters of a top Shiite cleric, with at least one demonstrator...

International

We Want Big Guns To Fight Al-Shabab Not AK-47

Somalia's president has called on the international community to lift an arms embargo on his country as government...

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Thai Army Hunts Four Over Supermarket Car Bomb

Thailand's military said Wednesday it was hunting four suspects over a large car bomb which wounded more than 60 people...

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Bahrain Sends First Civilian Case To Military Court

Bahrain has referred its first civilian case to a military court following a constitutional amendment approved by the...

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‘El Chapo’ Can Now Correspond With His Beauty Queen Wife From Solitary

Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman will remain in solitary confinement in a New York City prison, a US judge...

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Alarm Over Worsening Press Freedom In Tunisia

Tunisian and international non-governmental organisations warned Tuesday of deteriorating freedom of the press in a...