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Man Pleads Guilty in Ohio Gunpoint Abortion Case

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A man charged under an Ohio fetal homicide law with trying to force his pregnant girlfriend at gunpoint to get an abortion pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted murder, weapons and abduction counts. Dominic Holt-Reid pulled a gun Oct. 6 on girlfriend Yolanda Burgess, who was three months pregnant, and...

Army Opens Prison of Suspected WikiLeaks Private for Media Review

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- Army officials are opening the doors to the military prison in Kansas where they are holding an Army private suspected of illegally passing U.S. government secrets to the WikiLeaks website. Pfc. Bradley Manning was moved last week from the Marine brig in Quantico, Va., to the Joint Regional...

US Envoy Says Human Rights Talks With China Yield Little

BEIJING -- An American human rights envoy said Thursday that China provided no useful information when probed about specific cases of individuals who have been detained or who disappeared in a major crackdown on dissent in recent months. Hundreds of lawyers, activists, and other intellectuals have been questioned,...

WikiLeaks: 9/11 Mastermind Says He Killed Daniel Pearl Against al-Qaida Warnings

A senior al-Qaida military commander instructed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not to kill Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and said that Pearl should "be returned back to one of the previous groups who held him, or freed." But Mohammed, the supposed mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, says he killed Pearl...

Leaked Files Show Gitmo Inmate Released After Informing on 123 Others

LONDON -- Leaked U.S. military documents reveal that a Guantanamo Bay detainee was freed after informing on 123 other prisoners, despite concerns about the reliability of his evidence, a British newspaper reported Tuesday. The Guardian, The New York Times and El Pais are publishing details of more than 750 leaked U.S....

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06/02/12 China arrests suspected CIA agent Source: DNA (Daily News & Analysis) Chinese authorities have arrested a suspected CIA agent in China who apparently worked in the Ministry of State Security, country's main intelligence agency, a media report on Saturday said.
06/02/12 Chainsaw murder of Maguindanao massacre witness part... Source: GMA The victim was not just killed but dismembered in a signature style â with a chainsaw.
06/02/12 Justice after 17 years but nobody to cheer Source: Deccan Herald - India It is said justice delayed is justice denied.
06/02/12 UN report accuses Canada of complicity in torture Source: Inquirer.net - Philippines The Canadian government on Saturday criticized a United Nations agency for issuing a report condemning Canada for complicity in torture and human rights violations in Afghanistan and Syria.
06/02/12 Speech: Getting to the Heart of Politics - Metiria... Source: New Zealand City The future of the Green Party is to be at the heart of New Zealand politics - its pivot and its conscience.

Background on human rights

Human rights are commonly understood as "inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being."

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