NEW YORK, June 26 (UPI) -- Human rights activists are warning a prosecutor investigating detainees in Iran has a record of abusiveness and dissidents could face "trumped-up charges."
TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi contended Iranian authorities had no written justification for raiding human rights offices in Tehran Sunday.
BEIJING, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Rather than enhancing human rights, the Beijing Olympic Games have led to a human rights crackdown by the Chinese government, activists say.
MIAMI, March 19 (UPI) -- Human rights groups are calling on Cuba to release a number of dissidents imprisoned since a crackdown on the island's opposition five years ago.
TEHRAN, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- International human rights groups are rallying in hopes of heading off punishment of a woman facing prison for her role in a women's rights protest in Iran.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A U.S. human rights group plans to call on Iran to let independent investigators look into the death of a jailed Iranian student dissident.
MOSCOW, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Russian human rights activists say government charges that could close Russia's largest human rights association are groundless. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty say the crackdown on the Moscow-based Research Center for Human Rights began when Justice
BRUSSELS, June 7 (UPI) -- Despite passing new rights laws, the Iranian government has stepped up its practice of torture and arbitrary arrests, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
BEIJING, April 2 (UPI) -- China has released three women arrested for seeking justice at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights for victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
TEHRAN, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Iran has accused the United States of organizing terrorist groups on its eastern borders. Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi told a news conference Sunday
