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Venezuelan rights group reports 3rd in-custody death among people detained in post-election unrest
1 week ago

Venezuelan rights group reports 3rd in-custody death among people detained in post-election unrest

Associated Press  

CARACAS, Venezuela — A man detained in Venezuela during the civil unrest that followed the country’s disputed July presidential election died in custody Monday, marking the third such death reported by an inmates’ rights organization. His death came as Venezuela’s top prosecutor announced that roughly a fourth of the 2,000 people detained in connection with post-election demonstrations had been granted …

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Who is Prabowo Subianto, the man likely to be Indonesia’s next president?
10 months, 1 week ago

Who is Prabowo Subianto, the man likely to be Indonesia’s next president?

Al Jazeera  

A general once feared across Indonesia and banned from the United States, has reinvented himself as a ‘cute grandpa’. No one will be scared of committing human rights abuses, because he has avoided all the allegations made against him and managed to cover them up,” Muhammad said, recounting how the Kopassus Special Forces, under Prabowo’s command, cracked down on a …

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A man is charged with threatening a Palestinian rights group as tensions rise from Israel-Hamas war
1 year, 1 month ago

A man is charged with threatening a Palestinian rights group as tensions rise from Israel-Hamas war

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A Utah man has been charged with threatening a Palestinian rights organization in Washington in a case that was unsealed Monday as tensions rise in the U.S. from the devastating war between Israel and Hamas. Kevin Brent Buchanan, 62, of Tooele, Utah, called the unidentified group at least five times in three days and left profanity-laced messages such …

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Tennessee court rules man who received clemency in Virginia still can’t register to vote
1 year, 5 months ago

Tennessee court rules man who received clemency in Virginia still can’t register to vote

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a man who sought to register to vote in the state after receiving clemency for a crime committed decades ago in Virginia. That’s because of a Tennessee law that requires people seeking to restore their voting rights to first prove they have paid all outstanding court costs, restitution and child …

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Man charged for making violent threats against Nashville Pride festival
1 year, 6 months ago

Man charged for making violent threats against Nashville Pride festival

The Independent  

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Emirati-Turkish man extradited to UAE from Jordan: State media
1 year, 7 months ago

Emirati-Turkish man extradited to UAE from Jordan: State media

Al Jazeera  

Khalaf al-Rumaithi had been sentenced in absentia in 2013 on charges of ‘establishing’ a secret organisation the banned Muslim Brotherhood. Khalaf al-Rumaithi, an Emirati Turkish citizen according to rights groups, was described as a “terrorist” by the UAE official WAM news agency, which said he was facing a retrial. In 2013, al-Rumaithi was sentenced to 15 years in jail by …

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Saudi Arabia executes man during Ramadan; ‘rare’ decries rights group
1 year, 8 months ago

Saudi Arabia executes man during Ramadan; ‘rare’ decries rights group

Hindustan Times  

Saudi Arabia executed a man during the holy month of Ramadan, Guardian reported citing a rights group which said that the execution was rare. “Saudi Arabia executed a citizen during Ramadan,” European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights said in a statement, citing Saudi interior ministry capital punishment data. In 2022, Saudi Arabia executed 147 people in- over double the 2021 …

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Murder charge for DC officer in death of man asleep in car
1 year, 9 months ago

Murder charge for DC officer in death of man asleep in car

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A Washington, D.C., police sergeant has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the fatal August 2021 shooting of a man who had been found asleep in his car. The shooting took place after police received reports of a man asleep or unconscious behind the wheel of black BMW at a stoplight in northeast Washington around 3 …

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Michels: Would sign abortion ban with rape/incest exceptions
2 years, 2 months ago

Michels: Would sign abortion ban with rape/incest exceptions

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Republican Tim Michels said Friday that he would sign an abortion ban with exceptions for rape and incest if it came to his desk as governor, a shift from his earlier statement that Wisconsin’s 1849 ban — with an exception only for the life of the mother — was “an exact mirror” of his position. Conservative radio …

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'Women have lesser brains': Know how Taliban crushes women's rights
2 years, 10 months ago

'Women have lesser brains': Know how Taliban crushes women's rights

Op India  

As liberals and seculars of India are overtly supporting the Islamists in the ongoing Karnataka hijab row, a documentary covering the after-effects of the Taliban taking over Afghanistan by Vice News has been released into which a Taliban judge says that women cannot become a judge under the Taliban rule as they have lesser brains and as they are not …

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Man fired by Big 4 Strahan for being 'too fat' urges others to know their rights
2 years, 11 months ago

Man fired by Big 4 Strahan for being 'too fat' urges others to know their rights

ABC  

New jobs, a new house and a new life are what awaited the Griffin family when they left Queensland and drove more than 3,000km to their new home in Tasmania over the Christmas holidays. While helping to move a sofa from a shed at the park, Mr Griffin said he was told his weight would prevent him from being able …

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