Rights group: Notorious prison still exists in Iraq

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May 16, 2012

A notorious prison in Baghdad's Green Zone is still open despite the Iraqi government having said more than a year ago it was closed, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. full story

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Rights group: American moved to dangerous prison

A human rights group says Venezuelan authorities have transferred a U.S. filmmaker accused of espionage to a notoriously unruly prison where more than 20 inmates were killed in a 2011 riot.

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Rights group: American moved to dangerous prison

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - A human rights group says Venezuelan authorities have transferred a U.S. filmmaker accused of espionage to a notoriously unruly prison where more than 20 inmates were killed in a 2011 riot.

boston.com (19 days ago)

Notorious PNG criminal leads another prison break

Papua New Guinea's most notorious criminal has again escaped from a prison near the capital Port Moresby.

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Syrian militant group unites with al-Qaida in Iraq

Syrian militant group unites with al-Qaida in Iraq by Ryan Lucas The Associated Press Published Apr 9, 2013 10:15PM MDT Beirut • Al-Qaida’s branch in Iraq and the most powerful rebel extremist group in Syria have officially joined ranks against President Bashar Assad to forge a potentially formidable militant force in the Middle East. The merger of the Islamic State in Iraq...

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Rights Group Urges More Backing in Iraq Raid Probe

Iraqi panel probing deadly raid needs more financial and political backing, rights group says

abcnews.com (1 month and 16 days ago)

Rights Group: American Moved to Dangerous Prison

Rights group: US filmmaker moved to dangerous Venezuelan prison

abcnews.com (19 days ago)

U.S. plans to move Iranian exile group out of Iraq hit snag

Mujahedin Khalq leaders are resisting the transfer of the Marxist-Islamist group's members to other countries. But Iraq's government tires of protecting them.WASHINGTON - The State Department's decade-long effort to find a new home for a controversial Iranian opposition group has ground to a near halt only days after the announcement that the exiles had begun moving from...

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Notorious PNG bank robber escapes prison

A MANHUNT is on for PNG's most notorious bank robber after he escaped from a prison with 32 other inmates.

news.com.au (1 month and 6 days ago)

Rights group: Iran aims to keep stoning as adultery punishment

Stoning remains the way Iranians -- overwhelmingly women -- are punished for committing adultery, Human Rights Watch said Monday. The international group blasted a judicial council in Iraq, made up of 12 religious jurists, for inserting a stoning provision into a draft law where it had been previously removed.

cnn.com (16 days ago)

Leader of Cuban opposition group visits exiles

CORAL GABLES — The leader of a Cuban opposition group awarded Europe’s top human rights prize spoke strongly against the Castro brothers during a visit Saturday to Miami, where the exile community received her message with enthusiastic applause. “We want a Cuba in which liberty exists,” Berta Soler, co-founder of the Ladies in White, said. “Where there is democracy. And...

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