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Arrests in Chile for rights abuse » Chilean police have arrested some 25 former officials for allegedly helping to purge critics of former ruler General Augusto Pinochet.A judge on Tuesday issued 129 warrants against former members of Chile's secret police agency, Dina. They are accused of taking part in the killings and disappearances of dozens of leftists and opposition activists.
Authorities surround monastery; issue 48 hour ultimatum for organizers to "surrender" after latest p » Around 100 monks staged a candle-lit vigil and protest outside the government headquarters in Mangra (Chinese: Guinan) county, Tsolho (Chinese: Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in Qinghai on Wednesday, the first day of Tibetan New Year (Losar), according to reports and images received by the Tibetan language service of Radio Free Asia. The images, which can be viewed on ICT's website at: URL) depict monks from Lutsang monastery holding candles in memory of Tibetans killed in the ongoing cr...
Martin Luther King - A Time to Break Silence » Martin Luther King - A Time to Break SilenceStarting in 1965, King began to express doubts about the United States' role in the Vietnam War. In an April 4, 1967, appearance at the New York City Riverside Church — exactly one year before his death — King delivered Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. In the speech he spoke strongly against the U.S.'s role in the war, insisting that the U.S. was in Vietnam "to occupy it as an American colony" and calling the U.S. govern...
Iran security forces clash with protesters » TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran security forces clashed with supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and arrested at least 10 of them during annual anti-Israel rallies in central Tehran on Friday, a witness said."Security forces just arrested over 10 people," the witness said. "They are pushing protesters and beating them."Iranian authorities, including Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had warned the opposition against turning anti-Israel rallies to street protests against the clerical ...
Journalists Have Become 'Easy Prey' in Iran » Foreign media were banned from covering this summer's protests in Tehran, while local journalists have been arrested and persecuted.In a SPIEGEL interview, the chairman of Tehran's Association for the Defense of Press Freedom, 51-year-old Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, discusses acts of repression against journalists in Iran in the wake of June protests over the presidential election.
Honduras Regime Uses Noise Attack as U.S. Cuts Visas » TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' de facto leaders blasted loud music outside the embassy where Manuel Zelaya is sheltering on Wednesday and refused to buckle under increased pressure from Washington for the ousted president's return.Talks to resolve the political crisis in Honduras sparked by a June 28 coup are deadlocked over whether leftist Zelaya can be reinstated to power."One side of the dialogue has all the privileges and advantages and the other legitimately elected side is totally repre...
Moroccan worker’s protest for rights »   On Monday November 14th, 162 workers (including 81 women) from the British clothing manufacturer Dewhirst in Morocco were sacked. As a subcontractor, Dewhirst produces mainly clothes for the Marks and Spencer (M&S) company. M&S and Dewhirst have a close and long running relationship. The workers had been waging action against the bad working conditions in the factory that employs 4000 workers in Tanger in the north of the country. The reaction of the boss was to ...
Honduran Resistance Calls for Deepening of Democracy » The history of Bertha Oliva de Nativi is the history of Honduras.  If the storyline of the past one hundred years of this continent has been ‘so few with so much, and so many with so little’, then Bertha has been the fearless protagonist racing to rewrite the chapters that will hence come.   In 1982 Berta’s husband, Professor Tomas Nativi disappeared.  One of hundreds of Hondurans and tens of thousands of Central Americans to lose their lives to state sanctioned violence, Tom...
Mali protest against women's law » Tens of thousands of people in Mali's capital, Bamako, have been protesting against a new law which gives women equal rights in marriage.The law, passed earlier this month, also strengthens inheritance rights for women and children born out of wedlock. The head of a Muslim women's association says only a minority of Malian women - "the intellectuals" as she put it - supports the law.
Human Rights and Iran's Contested 2009 Presidential Election » Human rights violations in Iran caused grave concern far before the government began suppressing the 2009 protests against the rigged presidential voting victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.In Iran, democracy and human rights activists have been imprisoned, tortured, and killed for decades. Torture has included mutilation, rape, whipping and stoning. Execution of political prisoners has been rampant. Capital punishment of juveniles has been reported. The government also stops the publication of oppos...