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Tag: Human Rights and Human Rights Violations

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For Prominent Chinese Church Leader, Detention Is a Test of Faith

March 25, 2019March 25, 2019IAN JOHNSONComments Off on For Prominent Chinese Church Leader, Detention Is a Test of Faith

Wang Yi has been held incommunicado since December, part of a government crackdown on independent religious groups.

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Hamas Crackdown on Gaza Protests Instills Fear

March 24, 2019March 25, 2019IYAD ABUHEWEILA and ISABEL KERSHNERComments Off on Hamas Crackdown on Gaza Protests Instills Fear

When protests erupted across Gaza to protest tax increases and demand better living conditions, Hamas responded by beating demonstrators and detaining 1,000 people.

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Cambodia Faces Major Economic Blow as E.U. Weighs Ending Trade Deal

March 24, 2019March 24, 2019SETH MYDANSComments Off on Cambodia Faces Major Economic Blow as E.U. Weighs Ending Trade Deal

The country’s worsening rights record and oppression of the opposition could lead to the revoking of its special access to European markets.

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Top E.U. Coalition Suspends Party Led by Hungary’s Autocratic Leader

March 20, 2019March 20, 2019MARC SANTORA and STEVEN ERLANGERComments Off on Top E.U. Coalition Suspends Party Led by Hungary’s Autocratic Leader

The move endangers the European Parliament’s most powerful political alliance — one that has shielded the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, as he has dismantled checks on his power.

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Report Says U.S. Airstrikes Have Killed 14 Civilians in Somalia

March 19, 2019March 19, 2019HELENE COOPERComments Off on Report Says U.S. Airstrikes Have Killed 14 Civilians in Somalia

Since President Trump relaxed rules on airstrikes in Somalia, a number of civilians have been killed, Amnesty International said.

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Exiled Cambodian Opposition Leaders Are Indicted as Prime Minister Tightens Grip

March 19, 2019March 20, 2019SETH MYDANSComments Off on Exiled Cambodian Opposition Leaders Are Indicted as Prime Minister Tightens Grip

Warrants accused them of incitement to commit a felony and plotting treason, charges they say are baseless and proof of Hun Sen’s strangling of dissent.

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La Scala, in Turnabout, Votes to Reject Saudi Investment

March 18, 2019ELISABETTA POVOLEDOComments Off on La Scala, in Turnabout, Votes to Reject Saudi Investment

The Italian opera house also decided that its board of directors would not include a Saudi representative but said it remained open to collaboration.

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Muslim Rights Activist Sentenced to 4 Years in Russia on Disputed Drug Charge

March 18, 2019SOPHIA KISHKOVSKYComments Off on Muslim Rights Activist Sentenced to 4 Years in Russia on Disputed Drug Charge

A veteran activist who tracked rights abuses in Chechnya under its leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, was targeted in a crackdown on dissent, rights groups said.

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It Wasn’t Just Khashoggi: Saudi Crown Prince’s Brutal Drive to Crush Dissent

March 17, 2019March 17, 2019MARK MAZZETTI and BEN HUBBARDComments Off on It Wasn’t Just Khashoggi: Saudi Crown Prince’s Brutal Drive to Crush Dissent

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman created a secret team that spied on, kidnapped and tortured Saudi citizens a year before the journalist was killed.

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‘It Is Unspeakable’: How Maduro Used Cuban Doctors to Coerce Venezuela Voters

March 17, 2019March 17, 2019NICHOLAS CASEYComments Off on ‘It Is Unspeakable’: How Maduro Used Cuban Doctors to Coerce Venezuela Voters

President Nicolás Maduro sent doctors door-to-door to warn the ill and elderly that care would be cut off unless they voted for the governing party, said 16 Cuban physicians who worked in Venezuela.

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