News Articles for "Human Rights Defenders"
Rights groups: Zimbabwe police intensify threats
Zimbabwean police have increased threats against civic groups a week away from a referendum on a new constitution and before crucial elections to end the ...
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Rights group urges probe into Thai activist death
An international human-rights group on Wednesday urged Thailand to investigate the slaying of an environmentalist who exposed the dumping of toxic waste, ...
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Rights groups: Zimbabwe police intensify clampdown
Rights groups on Tuesday said police in Zimbabwe have intensified a clampdown on civil society organizations and democracy campaigners ahead of a referend...
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Report: Turkish lawyers jailed for militant links
Turkey's state-run news agency says a court has charged nine lawyers, including prominent human rights defenders, with membership in an outlawed leftist m...
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