`Borat' on Human Rights Victims List
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By MATTHEW LEE  WASHINGTON - Fictional gay cowboys and a faux reporter from Kazakhstan suffered human rights abuses in 2006 as crackdowns on flesh and blood victims were extended to the Internet, award-winning films and noted plays worldwide, the State Department says.
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The Philippines has put rights activists, including a former U.S. attorney-general and members of church groups, on an immigration blacklist drawn up ostensibly to stop terrorists from entering, a rights group said on Friday.
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The reported September 16 decision by the Belarusian Ministry of Justice to file a lawsuit aimed at closing the Belarus Helsinki Committee is just the latest example of longstanding government persecution of a ...
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's government is   leaving human rights workers vulnerable to attacks by armed   groups by discrediting their work and failing to arrest those   responsible for assaults on them, Amnesty International said in   a report released on Thursday.
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A week after Pakistan opposition  leader Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack, a  Jewish human rights group has taken out a full page ad in the  New York Times on Friday demanding that the United Nations  formally address suicide bombings.
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Four Britons who claim they were tortured while being detained in Saudi Arabia on trumped up terrorist charges are backing a campaign to allow UK citizens who have been abused abroad to seek compensation in the British courts.
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The makers of the Borat movie are sued by a man who claims he was accosted in a urinal for a scene in the film.
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A coalition of human rights groups is demanding the United States account for 39 terror suspects it believes have been secretly imprisoned and published their names in a report being released Thursday.
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Parents of David Boim (a United States teenager who was killed by Hamas in the West Bank in the year 1996), would be paid $156m by a group of Islamic Charities as ordered by a court in Chicago.
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An official Canadian government document has put both the United States and Israel on a watch list of countries where prisoners run the risk of being tortured, CTV television reported on Thursday.
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The hit movie and lawsuit magnet  &quot;Borat&quot; has drawn yet another court action, this time from a  man filmed running away from the fictional Kazakh television  reporter on the streets of New York City.
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There is almost nothing truthful in the satiric depiction of Kazakhstan popularized by Sacha Baron Cohen. And yet his character Borat has managed to infuriate the countryÂs officials.
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This year you are not going  to find a more appalling, tasteless, grotesque, politically  incorrect or slanderous film than "Borat: Cultural Learnings of  America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."
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Forced labor in the US, background checks for guns, and Turkey's human rights record.
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A human rights group said it had evidence of two previously unreported deaths of Afghan prisoners in US custody in Afghanistan and accused Washington of covering up abuse of detainees.
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Borat is dead. Sacha Baron Cohen tells The Daily Telegraph that he's retiring the clueless Kazakh journalist, as well as his alter ego, aspiring rapper Ali G.
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WASHINGTON -- The ongoing genocide in Sudan's troubled Darfur region was the world's worst human rights abuse last year, the United States said Tuesday in a global report that found freedoms eroding in numerous other nations, including war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq.