Ethnic Mongolians have staged a rare protest demonstration in northern China after a shepherd was killed, according to the US-based Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Centre. (SMHRIC).
The Supreme People's Court - the highest court in Mainland China - has ordered lower courts to suspend death sentences for two years, but only in cases that does not call for immediate execution.”
Rainforest activist and his wife were ambushed and shot dead in the Amazon state of Para in northern Brazil on Tuesday.
President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron laid out their broad guidelines for using force against other nations in the context of a wide-ranging opinion piece on Tuesday which touched upon rising democratic movements in the Middle East and the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan.
North Korea's secretive leader Kim Jong-il toured east China on Monday, while the U.S. government team flew to North Korea to assess food shortages.
An Egyptian court has passed the first death sentence to a police officer for killing protester during the uprising that has overthrown President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian state TV reported on Monday.
While critical food shortage is affecting a quarter of North Korea's population of 24 million, the secret lives of leader Kim Jong Il and his top aides, who are living lavishly in their own paradise, indulging in debauchery and womanizing, and are brazenly violating human rights norms, are slowly being unraveled.
TRIPOLI- The Syrian refugees fleeing to northern Lebanon were stopped on Thursday, as the Syrian and Lebanese authorities set out to close the border, a local media reported.
The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has condemned sanctions imposed on the country by the President of the United States, according to Syrian state media, SANA.
In his much anticipated Middle East speech, President Barack Obama gave Syrian President Bashar al-Assad two choices: Lead the transition toward democracy, or get out of the way.
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye is under house arrest, as a new parliamentary session is set to open.
The United States has slapped sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad for the violation of human rights, reported Reuters on Wednesday.
The United States, for the first time, has imposed sanctions on the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and six of his top aides for human rights abuses.
Free North Korea Radio, run by North Korean defectors, reported last Tuesday on the murderous acts toward disabled children by the country's own government. Disabled children who are born in the city of Pyongyang are taken into government run hospitals and are suffocated to death by smothering wet towel over their face.
The U.S. government will impose sanctions on Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria, as well as six top Syrian government officials, over human rights abuses perpetrated over the past two months of unrest in that country, according to reports.
The European Union and United States are preparing to hit Syria's leaders with new sanctions as anti-government protesters are still facing a brutal crackdown.
A mass grave has been found in the Syrian city of Deraa, the epicenter of the recent bout of anti-government protests in the country, according to the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria, a Syrian rights group.
In his speech concerning the Middle East at the State Department this Thursday, President Barack Obama is expected to outline his vision for the future of a region in upheaval.
The Obama administration on Monday unveiled an international strategy for cyberspace that stresses to promote a secure, open Internet and other critical computer networks.
Hillary, in an unprecedented act of hypocrisy, denounced China for human rights violations. This from a country that has violated the human rights of millions of victims in our own time in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, secret CIA prisons dotted all over the planet, in US courts of law, and in the arrests and seizure of documents of American war protestors.
The surging rebellions through internet urging to overthrow the political coup in the middle east has probably motivated the Thai justice ministry to patrol cyberspace in search of anybody violating the kingdom’s strict lese majeste rules, an offence punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
Urging the Angolan government to withdraw cybercrime bill before parliament, Human Rights Watch said it would undercut both freedom of expression and information, and pose a severe threat to independent media in the country.
