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The Turkish Daily News reports that a judge in Istanbul acquitted a British citizen of insulting the prime minister of Turkey, noting the country is trying very hard to protect the same freedoms of expression that are considered fundamental in European society. For the past 2 years, Michael Dickinson, has been in trials over a [...]
GMANEWS.TV reported that New York-based Human Rights Watch has criticized the deteriorating state of human rights in Saudi Arabia. In a report posted on its website, the organization shed light on the rarely-seen plight of foreign workers in the Kingdom. The 1.5 million foreign domestic workers mainly come from the Philippine, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and [...]
A Washington Post article today brought attention to Iran’s questionable human rights policy recently, noting the imprisonment of Arash and Kamiar Alaei, “two Iranian physicians who initiated their country’s first comprehensive HIV prevention and treatment program.” The two doctors were accused of acting against Iran and the official statement by the government went so far [...]
The United Nations News Center reported last week that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is insisting that Iran has been violating international law by imposing capital punishment on offenders who committed their crimes as minors. Iran has in the past agreed with the terms of the International Covenant [...]
