Rights group chides Somali government for media abuses
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An international rights group has lambasted the Somali government for "systematic harassment" of reporters, closure of media outlets and failure to investigate the killing of eight journalists this year.
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Across the Middle East, journalists who challenge the government are threatened by the state, prosecuted and imprisoned, an international press watchdog said Monday.
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The U.N.'s top human rights body on Thursday condemned Israeli military action in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Warring parties in Sudan &#39;s Darfur region have come in for severe criticism by a respected human rights organisation. In a report released on Monday, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said security in
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A Saudi human rights group on Saturday demanded the interior ministry explain why an Internet blogger who called for political reforms has been imprisoned.
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Somalia's Islamic Courts militia says it will defend the country against what it calls Ethiopian violations of its territory.
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Security in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region is a &quot;farce&quot; with the government engaged in ethnic cleansing and rebel groups looting and abducting civilians despite an April cease-fire, a rights group said on Monday.
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Kenyan opposition officials were behind attacks on the president's ethnic group, a rights group says.
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The supreme leader of Somalia's Islamists has invited ministers who have resigned from the transitional government to join his movement and lashed out at embattled Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi for failing to govern the shattered African nation.
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A leading rights group is urging Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sideline warlords implicated in rights abuses and strengthen the rule of law when he announces a new cabinet.
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A leading rights group urged Afghan  President Hamid Karzai on Saturday to sideline warlords  implicated in rights abuses and strengthen the rule of law when  he announces a new cabinet after being sworn in next week.
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Somalia's government is not in control of most of this war-ravaged country, and a radical Islamic group that was driven out last year is regrouping, a Somali official said Thursday.
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POLITICIANS and aid agencies yesterday stressed the importance of the media in keeping the spotlight on the appalling human rights abuses taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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A request from Kenya's leader for the Somali government to leave their exiled home in Kenya falls on deaf ears.
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A United Nations human rights mission on Monday accused the government of Sudan of orchestrating and taking part in international crimes in Darfur.
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Media rights groups attacked Sri Lanka&#39;s government for blocking domestic access to a website favouring the Tamil Tiger rebels and for saying it would like hackers to disable the site.
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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.