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Ten ways to repress a journalist

3 May 2013

Governments are perfecting techniques to prevent journalists from shining a light on human rights abuses. From trumped-up charges, removing work licences to murder, here are 10 ways journalists are prevented from reporting freely and fairly.

Journalists targeted in ongoing conflict in Syria

3 May 2013

Scores of journalists reporting on human rights abuses in Syria have been killed, arbitrarily arrested, detained, subjected to enforced disappearances and tortured over the last two years.

Maldives must commute death sentences for two juvenile offenders convicted of murder

3 May 2013

The Maldives authorities must commute the death sentences of two teenagers who received capital punishment for a murder allegedly committed when they were under 18.

USA: Maryland joins global trend against the death penalty

2 May 2013

The US state of Maryland has joined the overwhelming global trend towards ending the death penalty.

Pakistan must improve protection for Indian prisoners in wake of jail attack

2 May 2013

Pakistani authorities urged to protect Indian prisoners from violence after death row inmate dies following an attack in a Lahore jail.

Italy: Supreme Court strikes down the ‘Nomad emergency’ for good

2 May 2013

By declaring the so-called “Nomad emergency” unlawful and unfounded, Italy's Supreme Court has helped to end discrimination against Roma communities.

Israel must remove new settler outpost in the West Bank

2 May 2013

Israeli settlers in the Nablus district of the occupied West Bank set up a new illegal outpost yesterday

Belarus must stop the execution of man on death row

2 May 2013

The homeless man originally from Ukraine has been sentenced to death for killing a fellow prisoner in Mahiliou, eastern Belarus.

'There are no human rights in Sri Lanka'

1 May 2013

In Sri Lanka, a climate of intolerance and fear continues to sweep the island as the government’s stranglehold on the population grows ever tighter.

Cambodia: Release scapegoats for killing of trade union leader

1 May 2013

Two men wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for the killing of prominent trade union leader Chea Vichea in 2004 should be released immediately.

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