Human Rights

YEMEN: TV appearance sparks fresh wave of violence

President Saleh’s loyalists driving to a rally recently at Sabeen Square in the capital, Sanaa

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MYANMAR: Military porters "worked to death"

A porter with soldiers in Karen State

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Toms River, New Jersey Man Admits Posing as a Doctor, Treating Elderly Patients in Medicare Fraud Scheme

A Toms River, N.J., man today admitted to unlawfully treating patients, prescribing medicine, and ordering procedures while posing as a licensed physician with an Ocean County, N.J., medical practice, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Patrick...

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Former Hospital CFO Sentenced to 33 Months in Federal Prison for Fraud Scheme

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM ROE, 55, formerly of Archbald, Pennsylvania, and Wilton, Connecticut, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 33...

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Leawood Man Sentenced for Smuggling Counterfeit Cisco Computer Equipment

A Leawood, Kansas man has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for selling $1 million worth of counterfeit Cisco computer equipment, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.

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UN human rights expert criticizes heavy-handed police methods in Malaysia

UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue

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Mexican man convicted of using US citizen ID and passport to smuggle methamphetamine into US

A Mexican man was convicted on Wednesday of smuggling methamphetamine, and misusing a U.S. citizen passport during his smuggling attempt. The conviction was announced by U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno, Southern District of Texas.

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ICE seizes 850 pounds of marijuana in Tucson

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PAKISTAN: Christian sanitation workers swept into societal gutter

The often unseen or unrecognized abuses suffered by Christians at Pakistan’s lowest level of society – street sweepers – have come into sharp focus this year.

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INDONESIA: Torture Trial Must Be Open to Public

The Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) and the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urge the military to make open to the public the upcoming trial in a case of military torture that was committed against Charles Mali and...

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