Azeris criticised on human rights
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Amnesty International accuses Azerbaijan over its treatment of displaced people from Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Europe's top human rights watchdog slammed Russian authorities Wednesday over their arrest of leading Yukos oil executives, saying their detention was nothing but an attempt to silence opposition.
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Britain's ambassador to Tashkent is at the center of a controversy over comments he is reported to have made about human rights abuses in Uzbekistan and Britain's alleged use of intelligence information ...
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A human rights group yesterday condemned French President Jacques Chirac for his comments on the arms embargo placed on China by the European Union over the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, saying they dishonored ...
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Amnesty International said in a report released Tuesday that the relentless pursuit of security by the world&#039;s powerful nations had undermined human rights, draining energy and attention from crises afflicting the poor and underprivileged.
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Human rights abuses are growing in Asia as most countries in the region face a breakdown of the rule of law, a Hong Kong-based rights group said on Friday.
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The new U.N. Human Rights Council voted Friday to dedicate time during each future session to a review of alleged human rights abuses by Israel &amp;#151; a move criticized by the United States as misguided and unfair.
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Uzbekistan on Monday blocked a U.N. resolution backed by the United States and Western nations criticizing its human rights violations, including the harassment, beatings and arrests of journalists and civil activists.
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A U.S.-based human rights group denounced on Tuesday the recent arrests of democracy activists by Syrian authorities and called for an investigation of alleged beatings during interrogations.
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Human rights violations in the Russian region of Ingushetia have soared and a repeat of the systematic abuses in neighboring Chechnya is unacceptable, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
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Russian authorities often violate citizens' right to hold public protests, the country's human rights ombudsman said in a report published Thursday.
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For weeks now, the talk in Kyrgyz opposition circles has been dominated by questions about the disappearance of Tursunbek Akunov, a well-known human rights defender who is the head of a relatively hardline but ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's top human rights official urged the country to confront the horrors of its past, saying yesterday that war crimes dating back more than 20 years should be prosecuted and rights abusers should be purged from public office.
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Iran's President Khatami rejects US criticism of his country's human rights record, citing US wars and jail abuses in Iraq.
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The Council of Europe says human rights in Chechnya are "catastrophic" - not the view of the region's president.
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Syria has accused the European Union of hypocrisy for criticizing its human rights record while several member states are under investigation for allegedly abetting a network of secret US prisons.
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A U.N. investigator accused the United States on Friday of human rights violations in its fight against terrorism, criticizing the use of military commissions to try civilians and interrogation practices.