The force-feeding room and restraint chair being used at Guantanamo Bay in response to the detainee hunger strike.
Fatumo lost ten camels in the drought that ravaged Ethiopia two years ago. The family left their home in search of water and her children went...
Russia makes move to ban book on Chechnya conflict.
Dmitrievsky’s book is based on meticulous desk research and is an important source of information on the Chechen conflict. The authorities’ efforts to ban the book as ‘extremist’ have no basis in international human rights law and seem aimed at punishing Dmitrievsky for his human rights work.
Photo: International Tribunal for Chechnya. Prospects of Bringing to Justice Individuals Suspected of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity During the Armed Conflict in the Chechen Republic (2009)
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