MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, July 30 (UPI) -- Nigerian military officials said a top leader of a fundamentalist Islamic sect was killed in fighting sparked by a raid on the group's compound.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, July 29 (UPI) -- A radical Islamic sect exchanged heavy gunfire overnight Wednesday with Nigerian government troops in the northern town of Maiduguri, witnesses said.
NIKOLSKOYE, Russia, April 28 (UPI) -- Members of a Russian doomsday sect holed up in a cave on an island in the Bering Sea now say they plan to emerge June 14.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- New York-based Human Rights Watch accused the Egyptian government of arresting 22 men on terror charges two years ago without evidence.
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, April 17 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch said Tuesday Nigeria's regional elections last weekend were so corrupt, they should be rerun.
LAGOS, Nigeria, April 4 (UPI) -- Nigerian government officials are putting upcoming national elections at risk, Human Rights Watch claims in a new report.
ABUJA, Nigeria, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A U.S. human rights group claims Nigerian security forces are involved in killings and rights abuses in the oil-rich southern Delta region.
LAGOS, Nigeria, July 21 (UPI) -- The Human Rights Watch accused Nigerian police officers Monday of fanning last fall's Miss World competition riots that killed more than 220 people.
HONG KONG, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- China sentenced the leader of a banned Christian sect to death, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy in China said on Monday. Gong Shengliang,
HONG KONG, Dec. 17 (UPI) --
