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Report: Female Detainees in Egypt Forced to Take 'Virginity Tests'
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsWeeks after Egypt's vibrant, youth-led revolution, disturbing details are emerging about the treatment of some young female protesters briefly detained by Egyptian soldiers. Some of the women say they were strip-searched, photographed naked, beaten and forced to undergo "virginity tests" on threat of prostitution charges. At least 18 women were captured and held in military detention after army officers violently cleared Cairo's Tahrir Square on March 9, nearly a month after pro-democracy protesters ousted President Hosni Mubarak from power. After their release days later, several of them ...
UN Turns Up the Heat on Libya
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsU.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called today on the Security Council to take urgent action against Moammar Gadhafi's regime, which is believed to have killed thousands of protesters in Libya. "It is time for the Security Council to consider concrete action," Ban told the 15-nation body. "Whatever your course, let us be mindful of the urgency of the moment. Frank Franklin II, AP U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Friday on the Security Council to take "concrete action" to end the bloodshed in Libya. "This is an historic turning point, and the international community must ...
Iran Protesters Dig In Despite Arrests [VIDEO]
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsDuring the Cold War, the U.S. worried that communism could be contagious. Now it's looking like the government in Iran is worried that democracy could go viral. After Hosni Mubarak was forced from power, Iran's opposition planned a rally today to celebrate Egypt. But according to The Associated Press, the Iranian government has instituted a "massive security crackdown," including placing police and militia members on the streets, even cutting the phone lines of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi. Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi, another opposition leader, were both placed under house arrest ...
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Rights Activists Decry Treatment of Imprisoned WikiLeaks Suspect
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsAmnesty International says that the U.S. military's harsh treatment of the soldier who allegedly passed secrets to WikiLeaks is so inhumane that British officials must intervene. U.K. supporters of Pfc. Bradley Manning argue that while he was born in the United States, he is considered a British citizen "by descent" as well because his mother was born in Wales. Amnesty International called conditions of his detention in a military prison "harsh and punitive" and said they should be improved to conform with international standards, The Guardian reported Tuesday. They have asked British ...
Iran Hangs Soccer Star's Mistress for Murder
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Dec. 1) -- Iran executed by hanging the mistress of one of its most famous soccer stars today, after she was convicted of murdering the man's wife eight years ago. Shahla Jahed, 40, went to the gallows at 5 a.m. at Tehran's Evin Prison, where she had spent the past eight years behind bars. Her hanging went ahead after the victim's family refused to agree to any delay to resolve legal challenges, state-run Press TV reported. The murdered woman's son was the one who pulled a chair out from under Jahed's feet, leaving her gasping for air in her last moments of life, Britain's Press ...
Amnesty International Wants Bush Prosecuted for Admitted Waterboarding
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 10) -- Amnesty International is calling for the prosecution of George W. Bush following the former president's admission to authorizing waterboarding techniques, according to a report on the human rights group's website. "Under international law, anyone involved in torture must be brought to justice, and that does not exclude former President George W. Bush," Amnesty International Senior Director Claudio Cordone said in a statement. "If his admission is substantiated, the USA has the obligation to prosecute him. In the absence of a U.S. investigation, other states must step in and carry ...
Living Under a Death Sentence for Adultery: Just Another Day in Iran
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyToday, Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani lived another day. Whether she'll live the week, let alone the month, is uncertain. She's lived this way now for months, never knowing if or when she might meet her fate at the hands of the Iranian penal code. Sentenced to death by stoning -- the standard punishment for adultery in Iran, a country that adheres to strict Sharia law -- Mohammad-Ashtiani's tragic story has become a cause célèbre in the human rights world and a symbol of global revulsion towards the Iranian regime. An online petition to save her has been signed by 275,000 people. Her image is ...
Activists: Iranian Woman to Be Hanged Soon
By not in system - AOL News
(Nov. 2) -- An Iranian woman originally sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery will instead be hanged for murder as soon as Wednesday, a human rights group said. "The authorities in Tehran have given the go-ahead to Tabriz prison for the execution of ... Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani," the International Committee Against Stoning said in a statement posted on its website. Amnesty International / AP Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, was sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, although the stoning was later suspended. She is now expected to be hanged, activists ...
Critics Fault Former Colombian President Uribe
By Karen Keller - AOL News
(Nov. 2) -- As Washington channeled billions of dollars to Colombia over the last decade to fight the war on drugs, American officials consistently portrayed President Alvaro Uribe as a crime-fighting hero who greatly improved security in Colombia and salvaged a country ravaged by six decades of bloody internal war. Alan Diaz, AP Critics say former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is responsible for countless human rights abuses. But since Uribe, 58, left office in August after a tenure that began in 2002, his critics are portraying the bespectacled ally of former President George W. Bush ...
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