Monthly Archive: February 2014
Bahraini activist Zainab al-Khawaja was released from prison Sunday after serving nearly a year on charges related to her participation in pro-democracy protests. The daughter of a prominent dissident, Khawaja became an international go-to...
In Zimbabwe, prison authorities began releasing inmates Monday under a presidential pardon aimed to ease prison overcrowding. President Robert Mugabe ordered the amnesty Sunday for nearly ten percent of the country’s prison population. More...
A Pakistani drone victim who was kidnapped from his home earlier this month has been released. According to the British human rights NGO Reprieve, Kareem Khan reappeared on February 14th, after his captors threw...
The United Nations weighed in Thursday on Turkeys’ recently passed internet censorship and surveillance bill, calling it incompatible with the nation’s international human rights obligations. UN High Commissioner for Human Right spokesperson Rupert Colville...
Russia has passed new restrictions on foreign adoptions, this time banning all single people from countries that have legalized same sex marriage from adopting Russian children. The measure increases fears among LGBT parents that...
The 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima led to the closure of fifty reactors and sparked a nationwide refection on the role of nuclear power in Japan. The full extent of the disaster remains unknown....
More than a decade after the US-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Department of Defense employs over 80,000 contractors in the two countries, according to its 1st quarter FY 2014 census. In an...
A commentary by Mumia Abu Jamal on Black History Month, courtesy of Prison Radio. Download (photo credit: Prison Radio via Flickr)
British lawmakers will consider a motion to block a prisoner transfer agreement between the UK and Nigeria that was signed last month. Just days after the agreement was inked, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed...
Eighteen members of Congress yesterday sent a letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to remove marijuana from the list of drugs with federal Schedule I classification, which determines that a drug has no...