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Jun 30 2012 2:56PM
China Human Rights Briefing June 20-26, 2012

Top News • Controls Tighten Around Activist Feng Zhenghu: Feng Zhenghu, the activist who now has been under house arrest in Shanghai for four months, continues to face heightened harassment. Most recently,authorities cut down branches...

Jun 29 2012 6:16PM
ACTION: Roma risk imminent forced eviction in Rome (UA 182/12)

Dear Activists, The Italian authorities must immediately stop plans to evict Roma families from a camp on the outskirts of Rome, and should instead improve housing conditions there, Amnesty International said yesterday. Amnesty...

Jun 29 2012 12:45PM
ACTION: Detention of Punk Group Extended in Russia (UA 122/12)

Dear Activists, A Russian feminist punk group has conducted several performances in public places such as Moscow underground, Moscow Red Square and on the roves of buses. In media interviews the group members have stated that they...

Jun 29 2012 12:30PM
Pause for thought - 40 years since the US Supreme Court briefly stopped executions

Today is the 40th anniversary of the US Supreme Court briefly stopping executions. USA Researcher Rob Freer looks back at that ruling and the use of death penalty by the US today. For a brief moment four decades ago, it looked like the...

Jun 28 2012 11:10PM
A step forward for children's rights in the US: Supreme Court rules on LWOP

On Monday the US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in the cases of Miller v Alabama and Jacskon v Hobbs , ruling that mandatory sentences of life without parole imposed on children violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on...