Euronews
| Apr 1, 2013
Bahrain police casually tossed tear gas and stun grenades at anti-government female protesters, even though some of them were with toddlers. Women launched the demonstration in support of jailed political prisoners and against an upcoming Formula ...
Democracy Now!
| Feb 26, 2013
As protests grow in the West Bank over the death of a Palestinian inside an Israeli prison, we speak to a pair of Israeli and Palestinian fathers who've responded to personal tragedies with activism for peace. Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan united...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 25, 2013
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are burying a man who died in an Israeli jail. Israel says Arafat Jaradat died of a heart attack, but the Palestinian Authority says the autopsy report showed that he was tortured. His death has sparked days...
Euronews
| Feb 14, 2013
Security forces in Bahrain shot dead a teenage boy on Thursday as protesters marked the second anniversary of the failed Arab Spring uprising. The shooting happened in a small village near the capital Manama after a radical underground group cal...
Democracy Now!
| Dec 13, 2012
A concert in New York City Friday night will kick off a fresh effort to win clemency for Leonard Peltier. The Native American activist has spent 37 years in prison for the killing of two FBI agents but Amnesty International considers him a politic...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 28, 2012
Pilots who flew missions during which political prisoners were thrown alive into the sea are among dozens of suspects being tried for human rights abuses during Argentina's military dictatorship. The trial is probing abuses at the notorious Naval ...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 27, 2012
It's a confusing message. Some M23 rebel leaders have promised to withdraw unconditionally from Goma, which they captured last week in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Others are demanding conditions, including releasing political prisoners and c...
Voice of America
| Nov 14, 2012
President Obama is about to give Burma's reforms the seal of approval by becoming the first US president to ever visit the country. But with hundreds of political prisoners still behind bars and many repressive laws still in place, some human righ...
— Apr 14, 2012 at 11:49 pm
...prison since riot police broke up a large election-night rally protesting alleged fraud in balloting that gave the incumbent 80% of the vote. Mr...
— Dec 27, 2012 at 06:33 pm
...that political Islamists like those allied with Saudi Arabias royal family have taken their adulation of Prophet Muhammad too far.I'd like to sa...
— Apr 15, 2012 at 07:06 am
...the harshest crackdown of Mr. Lukashenko’s rule. Mr. Sannikov was arrested after participating in a largely peaceful protest in December 2010. T...
— Jul 29, 2012 at 12:34 pm
...Demonstrations were rapidly organised in several cities and protests were fired off to Pakistani embassies around the world. Local newspapers re...
— Dec 18, 2012 at 08:45 am
...Oldfield, the protester jailed for six months for swimming in front of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, has said he was a "political prisoner" an...
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