US faces criticism in British government human rights report
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LONDON : The United States faced rare criticism over human rights from close ally Britain, with an official British government report taking Washington to task over concerns about Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay jail.
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The US State Department listed North Korea, Myanmar, China, Iran, Sudan, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Eritrea as nations that violate religious freedom in its yearly report on international religious freedom Wednesday.
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The US expresses grave concern over what it calls the worsening human rights situation in Iran.
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A State Department report that said Russia's human rights record has deteriorated in the past year was criticized by the government as aimed at furthering American political interests
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The United States, acknowledging its own record is in question, criticized Iraq on Tuesday in its annual report on human rights abuses, listing death squads with government links, kidnapping and torture.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw complained to his US counterpart Colin Powell about the deportation from the United States of former pop star Cat Stevens as a possible terrorist risk, a senior State Department official said.
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The US condemns a decision by Belarus to evict a human rights group from its offices in Minsk
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In a scathing report, Human Rights Watch blamed the U.S. and Europe for undermining human rights around the world by allowing autocrats to pretend they are democratic simply by holding rigged elections.
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The White House on Monday voiced displeasure with recent decisions in Egypt to crack down on dissenting voices within the media and to close a human rights group, saying it is "deeply concerned" about the moves.
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A British parliamentary committee accused the government on Sunday of breaking European human rights law with its curbs on terrorism suspects and urged it to do more to prosecute suspects instead.
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Fledgling U.S.-backed democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq are failing to protect human rights, the State Department said Tuesday, despite huge flows of American aid to improve conditions after the ousters of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.
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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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A British Cabinet minister speaking in Washington has urged more reliance on international cooperation and less on force, a message widely interpreted in London as a veiled criticism of the United States.
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Posted October 27, 2004 -- A leading human rights organization has asked the next president of the United States to review Americaâs policies on interrogation, given the âtorture, cruelty and degradationâ associated with the war in Iraq.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has complained to his US counterpart Colin Powell about the deportation of Cat Stevens from the United States on the grounds that the former British pop star posed a ...
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US authorities have accused a British charity of funding terrorist activities abroad, according to a report.
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A human rights group on Tuesday sharply  criticized the U.S. meat industry and the government for  hazardous working conditions at meat plants and accused  companies of using illegal tactics to suppress employee efforts  to report abuses.