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Human Rights Watch Takes Numbers on Tunisia's Press Freedom Violations

23 hours ago ago from Interesting Times

HRW minces no words in its evaluation of the press freedom situation in Tunisia, especially focusing on the two journalists who have been incarcerated in that country after the alleged "re-eleccion" of President [apparently for live] Ben Ali. Here is a complete analysis by HRW of the Tunisian situation and its demands to free both Taoufik Ben Brik and Zouhair Makhlouf , whose only crime was trying to keep the government accountable before ...

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Vietnam charges human rights lawyer | A G O R A

22 hours ago ago from Agora dialogue

Posted on December 24, 2009 Filed Under Asia , Human rights | Leave a Comment by Taiwan News Vietnam has charged a well-known human rights lawyer and his associates with subversion, a charge that could carry the death penalty, state media reported Wednesday. Prosecutors have charged Le Cong Dinh with working to overthrow the state, a more serious charge than they had initially sought, the Thanh Nien (Youth) newspaper reported. ...

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Human Rights Activists Celebrate 2009’s Many Wins Against Scientology Cult

10 hours ago ago from Press Releases

The Scientology organization suffered many crippling blows in 2009, as the Anonymous human rights activist network turned up the pressure, journalists and judges stopped pulling their punches, and cult members continued to bail out in droves. Continue reading here: Human Rights Activists Celebrate 2009's Many Wins Against Scientology Cult Related posts: Human Rights Activists Applaud Paul Haggis for Leaving Homophobic ...

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Cambodia Bowed to Pressure on Uighurs: Rights Watch

23 hours ago ago from CAAI News Media

By Heng Reaksmey and Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer Original report from Phnom Penh and Washington 23 December 2009 (CAAI News Media) Cambodia received nearly a billion dollars from Beijing the day after it deported Uighur asylum seekers, Human Rights Watch said, claiming China had pressured the country to violate its international agreements. Twenty Muslim Uighurs were flown out of Cambodia on Saturday, a ...

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Loving Themselves

6 hours ago ago from Aguanomics

United Nations General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann calls for a "Right to Water," and Maude Barlow (newly appointed Senior Advisor on Water Issues to President d'Escoto Brockmann) agrees with his opinion of her platform. [ I denounced it three months ago.]: This is a wonderful opportunity to advance a more democratic and transparent method of policy making around water at the global level than now exists. Without water there ...

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