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Yemen: Heavy rains bring despair to displaced people in camps
Jun 02, 2019 10:34Heavy rains and the resultant floods have caused havoc in camps for internally displaced people (IDP) in the Abs district of the Hajjah Governorate in Yemen.
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Tory austerity measures causing ‘hunger crisis’ in UK: Human Rights Watch
May 21, 2019 08:26The British government’s cuts to welfare over the past decade have caused a “hunger crisis” by leaving tens of thousands of poor families across the country without enough food to eat, according to a damning report by Human Rights Watch.
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UN urges UK to probe British troops' murder, torture, abuse in Iraq
May 19, 2019 11:36The UN Committee Against Torture called on the United Kingdom to investigate claims of murder, torture and abuse by its troops in Iraq, Daily Mail reported.
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215 Iranian Sunni clerics condemn beheading of Saudi nationals in letter to UN Chief
May 11, 2019 09:02Over 200 Iranian Sunni clerics in a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres deplored the mass execution of tens of Saudi citizens by Riyadh, calling for independent investigations into the crime to prevent its repetition.
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Distinguished UAE activist Mansoor's prison conditions 'may constitute torture,' rights experts warn
May 09, 2019 02:19Independent United Nations human rights experts have warned that prominent Emirati pro-democracy campaigner and rights activist Ahmed Mansoor may be enduring treatment amounting to torture, including prolonged solitary confinement, as he is serving his jail terms in the Persian Gulf Arab country.
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Iran dismisses US rights accusations, says Washington in no place to lecture others on human rights
May 02, 2019 01:34Iran has dismissed US accusations about rights violations in the Islamic Republic, saying Washington that has a black record of rights abuses is in no place to comment on the issue.
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Amid mass beheadings, Wall Street scrambles for Saudi profits
Apr 28, 2019 09:55The hideous public beheadings of 37 men in a single day in Saudi Arabia just recently have provoked scant protest from Western governments and the corporate media.
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Activist rejects Saudi envoy's invitation for talks inside embassy for fear of life
Apr 20, 2019 08:23Manal al-Sharif, a prominent Saudi human rights activist, welcomed an invitation by the country's ambassador to Washington to hold talks, but stressed that they should be held outside the Saudi embassy to avoid the experience of Jamal Khashoggi.
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HRW demands prominent Saudi human rights lawyer’s release
Apr 17, 2019 00:51Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi authorities to immediately release prominent human rights lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against Muslim preachers, members of the press and intellectuals widens in the conservative oil-rich kingdom.
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Countries arming Saudi Arabia, partners in crimes against Yemenis: Iran
Apr 08, 2019 10:38Iran has strongly condemned the latest deadly airstrikes by Saudi warplanes in Yemen that maryred more than a dozen civilians, most of them schoolchildren, saying countries that are arming the aggressors are complicit in the crimes.