Nicaragua: Rights experts decry persecution of Government opponents

Nicaragua: Rights experts decry persecution of Government opponents

President Daniel Ortega and other high-level officials should be held accountable “as should Nicaragua, as a State that goes after its own people targeting university students, indigenous people, people of African descent, campesinos and members of the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations,” they said in a statement.  The accusation comes in their latest report…

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Rights experts urge France to protect children from sexual abuse

Rights experts call for probe into alleged violations against Palestinian women and girls

Palestinian women and girls have reportedly been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often together with family members, including their children, according to information they have received. Killed while fleeing  “We are shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing. Some…

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Gaza: UN rights experts condemn ‘killing and silencing’ of journalists

Gaza: UN rights experts condemn ‘killing and silencing’ of journalists

Expressing deep concern, the Human Rights Council-appointed experts highlighted the alarming toll on journalists and media workers in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly in Gaza. “We are alarmed at the extraordinarily high numbers of journalists and media workers who have been killed, attacked, injured and detained in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly in Gaza, in…

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USA: Rights experts slam ‘outrageous’ execution of inmate by nitrogen gas suffocation

USA: Rights experts slam ‘outrageous’ execution of inmate by nitrogen gas suffocation

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was executed in the southern state of Alabama on 25 January.  He had been convicted of murder in 1988.  “Alabama’s use of Kenneth Smith as a human guinea pig to test a new method of execution amounted to unethical human experimentation and was nothing short of State-sanctioned torture,” the experts said…

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