Human rights
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China should be proud of Wang Quanzhang - instead it persecutes him
Michael Caster and Peter DahlinThe human rights lawyer has been detained on baseless charges. Beijing should drop them and uphold the rule of law -
Xia Lin given sentence harsher than expected, prompting outrage from China’s legal community
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Coalition of 175 civil society organisations raises alarm over prisons, hate crimes, stop and search powers and threat to Human Rights Act
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Tom Tugendhat is wrong. Limiting human rights to our borders will strip soldiers of hard-won protections, and values that distinguish them from the enemy
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He is the eighth journalist murdered in Mexico so far this year
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Country’s legal community will declare its opposition to capital punishment amid concern over miscarriages of justice
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Channel 4 News’ Lindsey Hilsum on the difficulty of deciding whether to take the risk of entering a war zone
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Nizar Zakka, a campaigner for internet freedom, was held in Iran after being invited to a conference
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Letters: We write in protest at the Iranian government shirking its responsibility in the death of Shahrokh Zamani, the well-known labour activist found dead in Karaj’s Rajai Shahr prison a year ago
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Two summits this week will try to address the 65 million displaced and 20 million in danger. But they are under fire before talks have even begun
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Chitralekha Massey, the new Pacific representative of the office says politicians must show courage and close Australian-run detention centres
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Editorial: The inquiry into a teenager’s drowning highlights the need for a fuller account of policy decisions and failures at high command
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Khurram Parvez arrested after being prevented flying to Geneva where he was to submit report to human rights council
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Press freedom organisations lobby UN general secretary Ban Ki-moon
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Editorial: Fundamentalists around the world believe that people should not be allowed to marry outside their faith. They must be resisted
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The British government must act now to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Tulip Siddiq and Richard RatcliffeThe Foreign Office hasn’t done enough to help this British-Iranian woman, who is facing five years in an Iran jail. Her health and human rights are at stake -
He was arrested for comments on Twitter and has been charged with ‘defaming the state’ after writing an op-ed article for the New York Times
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Substitution therapy for addicts is banned in Russia. Three activists are hoping to gain access to the treatment through the European court of human rights
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Umbrella movement leader Alex Chow due to begin master’s degree at LSE but says his visa has been delayed without explanation
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Report suggests greater cooperation and ‘harmonised regional systems’ for processing asylum claims
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The world needs loud-mouthed activists more than ever