Observers says the video shows Abu Sakkar – the prominent founder of rebel group Farouq Brigade – as opposition figures and Assad supporters condemn footage
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In an article for online publication Spiked, Ms Hewson, a specialist in reproductive rights, said it was time to “end the persecution of old men” such broadcaster Stuart Hall, describing the indecent assault of 13 girls, which he admitted, as “low-level misdemeanours”.
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Carla del Ponte is the UN rights investigator, and has been a thorn in the side of the UN for a long time. Her radio interview will not help the NATO case against Assad.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes no secret of wanting to revise Japan’s constitution, which was drafted by the United States after World War II, to formalise the country’s right to have a military – but critics say his plans go deeper and could return Japan to its socially conservative, authoritarian past.
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Sunday saw the publication of China’s Human Rights Record of the United States in 2012, its now traditional retort to the U.S.’ Country Reports on Human Rights Practices issued two days previously.
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When the slaughter of the Muslim minority in Myanmar started all fingers pointed to the followers of the Noble peace prize winner and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. This seriously damaged her image abroad. Is this report just damage control?
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“New frontier”, “No going back”; we have heard it all before and have seen these endeavours fail. What is new this time is that one of the creators of “Big Brother” is part of this scheme, and the TV rights could actually fund the whole colonization effort.
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A Justice Department official says the Boston Marathon bombing suspect will not be read his Miranda rights because the government is invoking a public safety exception.
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The Newark-based, New York-listed explorer said that upstream regulators in Mongolia had granted it an “an exclusive oil shale development agreement to explore and evaluate the commercial potential of oil shale resources”.
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It slams all the usual suspects. Notable exception is Myanmar where the human rights seem to have improved big time ever since the big US multinationals are allowed to do business there. I wonder how that works?
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