Mexico hid police rapes of protesters: Amnesty
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Police who beat, sexually abused and raped women arrested after riots in a rebellious town near Mexico City have not been punished and authorities hid what happened, Amnesty International said on Thursday
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 21 -- The political scandal over the reported rape of a Sunni woman by Iraqi police officers escalated Wednesday after the Iraqi prime minister's office released what it said was a portion of the woman's medical record and fired a top Sunni government official who had demanded an...
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More than half of women imprisoned in Mexico are convicted for drug-related crimes.
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Protesters scuffled with riot police outside Congress on Monday after supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tried to set up a protest camp to demand a full recount in last month's election.
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The bodies of 14 policemen were found Friday northeast of Baghdad after an al-Qaida-affilated Sunni group said it abducted members of a government security force in retaliation for the rape of a Sunni woman by members of the Shiite-dominated police.
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Scores of protesters have been injured or arrested by police during street demonstrations in Indian-administered Kashmir over the alleged rape of a woman and her minor daughter.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico  - Gunmen disguised as soldiers killed seven people at two police stations in the troubled Mexican resort of Acapulco on Tuesday, despite a military crackdown against violent drug gangs.
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Immigration authorities on Wednesday briefly detained representatives of a man who says he was sexually abused by a Mexican Roman Catholic priest. The three men were detained shortly after they alleged that the fugitive cleric was still celebrating Mass in Mexico.
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On August 20, a riot was narrowly averted at a protest in Montebello, Quebec, when an alert and observant protester noticed that three masked men seemed out of place among the crowd - one of them carried a fist-sized rock and refused to put it down when repeatedly asked.  The men refused to unmask or identify themselves.  Eventually, the three masked men rushed the police line and were seemingly arrested.  Allegations immediately surfaced that the men were undercover police officers.  These allegations were later confirmed, as the Quebec police admitted that the three masked men were, in fact, police officers.
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At least 14 Iraqi police officers have gone missing and an al Qaeda-linked group on Friday showed pictures of 18 men it said had been kidnapped to avenge the alleged rape of a woman last month.
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The party of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador demanded a ballot-by-ballot recount Tuesday in Mexico&#039;s closest-ever presidential race, claiming the vote was manipulated and renewing fears of violent protests if the fiery politician doesn&#039;t get his way.
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Nigeria should urgently overhaul its legal system to curb widespread sexual violence against women, including rape by security forces and police, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
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Authorities on Sunday said they re-arrested the alleged mastermind of a 1997 massacre of 45 men, women and children in southern Mexico.
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MEXICO CITY -- A special prosecutor is accusing Luis Echeverria, Mexico's former president, of "harming humanity" by allegedly ordering government thugs to kill protesters during a 1971 demonstration, according to case files released to a Mexican freedom of information group.
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Two police officers have been burned alive by a mob of furious residents after the officers were mistaken for child kidnappers. The crowd, angered by recent kidnappings at a school in Mexico Cityâs south
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President Hugo Chavez granted amnesty Monday to many opponents accused of supporting a failed 2002 coup that briefly drove him from power.
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Seven police die in Mexico after gunmen attack a police convoy carrying three alleged kidnappers.