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Bahraini Protests On Life Support
Aerial views of protesters clashing with police during an uprising earlier this year. Photo: Yana Kunichoff/Truthout As Saudi-backed Bahraini authorities prepared to carry out death sentences against...
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Who Cares About The Iranian People?
The world countries are competing with each other in imposing new financial sanctions against Iran. While the Iranian people still hasn’t forgotten the bitter memory of 8-year war with the Baathist...
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Doctors On Trial In Bahrain
Ayat Al-Qormezi Ayat Al-Qormezi, a 20-year-old Bahrain poet, who recited poems critical of Bahrain’s rulers, was sentenced yesterday (Sunday) to a year in prison by a special security court set up...
View ArticleJason Leopold On The White House’s Hypocrisy On Human Rights
The United States is outspoken about human rights violations happening across the globe, but what about the ones America itself is guilty of? Investigative journalist Jason Leopold talks to RT about...
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Egypt: Minister Of What?
Egypt has always been the land of endless surprises. Lately. the biggest surprise, of course, was the Tahrir Square revolution, which toppled 30 years of Hosni Mubarak rule in 18 days. Since then, the...
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Egypt Security Raids US, German and Egyptian NGOs
Seeming to borrow a page from the Hosni Mubarak playbook, Egyptian security forces yesterday raided the offices of two Egyptian, two American and one German non-governmental organization and held their...
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Report Sheds Light On Dire Prison Conditions For Youth Offenders Serving Life...
You probably know that the United States has more people in jail than any other country in the world. The staggering number is 2.3 million. China, which has four times as many people as the US, is a...
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The Royal Stall
While unarmed civilians die on Bahrain’s streets, the king of the tiny oil-rich nation continues to tell his people he is eager for dialogue and refuses entry to a prominent human rights champion from...
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What We Left Behind In Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. Photo/Wikimedia. Human Rights Watch is charging that, despite U.S. government assurances that it helped create a stable democracy, the reality is that it left behind...
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Civil Liberties, Human Rights Organizations Press Forward With Lawsuit...
It would be a slam dunk. If there were a Nobel Prize for Tenacity, I would nominate half a dozen organizations that, in the face of years of lost court cases and rapidly graying hair, continue to seek...
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