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09.11.2009, 18:29
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Secret routes, fake IDs, risking freedom and even their lives – despite all this, illegal Palestinian workers flow to Israel in search for jobs they have no chance of finding at home.
23.12.2009, 20:51
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Russia's Supreme Court has ruled that the 2003 arrest of former Yukos executive Platon Lebedev was illegal on procedural grounds and must be annulled. The decision will have no impact on his imprisonment, however.
28.12.2009, 08:34
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A year after Israel's devastating operation in Gaza, Palestinians are mourning its victims. The war claimed the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, according to human rights groups on both sides, and 13 Israelis.
22.07.2009, 14:15
The world financial crisis has hit the Latvian prison system hard. Inmates have written an open letter to the press, saying their rations have been cut and that they are forced to pay for their imprisonment.
15.07.2009, 14:13
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Bills approved by the Russian State Duma include increasing sentences to 20 years for the rape of children – and also harsher measures for the distributors of child pornography.
20.11.2009, 18:37
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As the UK’s general election looms closer, the Tory’s are using every Labour weak spot to secure votes. Their latest line of attack criticizes an ‘incompetent’ prison service. But what is the Tory’s solution?
04.01.2010, 06:13
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In France, women who have fallen victim to enforced domestic labor are struggling to bring their offenders to justice and find comfort after years of toil.
02.03.2010, 10:28
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Spain’s Judge Baltazar Garzon is facing criminal charges for attempting to initiate an investigation into the disappearance of over 100,000 people during the Spanish Civil War.
25.10.2010, 23:45
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Two Israeli soldiers are awaiting sentencing after being convicted of using a Palestinian child as a human shield during the Gaza war.
03.05.2009, 13:38
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The number of Russian policemen brought to justice over the past four years is increasing. With people scared of seeing men in uniform, human rights activists and lawmakers in Russia are calling for urgent police reform.
Published: 03 November, 2009, 22:02
Edited: 04 November, 2009, 07:45
Recently declassified documents reveal that half of all human intelligence the US government had on Al-Qaeda was discovered through detainee interrogations, Christopher Farrell from Judicial Watch told RT.
Studies have shown that 'intelligence' obtained through harsh questioning (I shall avoid the T word) is rarely of any value, indeed it is arguable that it can be descibed as intelligence at all. The US have badly let themselves down by their harsh treatment of 'detainees'. Their treatment of prisoners (as graphically illustrated by the Abu Graib photographs, and TV pictures of Guantanamo Bay) is now infamous. They lost the moral high ground years ago as a result of this and many other now well documented actions. If they are still treating detainees 'harshly' in order to extract 'intelligence' then it is hardly suprising their operations in Afghanistan are grinding to a halt, that they can proceed no further with Iraq, and that they really seem to think that Iran is a 'threat to the world'.