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Kenyan police Saturday confirmed that Ethiopian authorities have released eight suspected Kenyan terrorists, saying that the suspects have been reunited with their families. Kenyan authorities rendered the suspects to Somalia in early 2007, where they were handed over to...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Wednesday called on the Ethiopian government to release rendition victims in custody or prosecute them in an open court that meets basic fair trial standards. The renditions were...

US Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) introduced a new bill entitled the "Support for Democracy and Human Rights in Ethiopia Act of 2008" in the Senate on Tuesday, calling for greater support for individual...

Katherine Southwick : "Refugees International (RI) is gravely concerned about actions taken by the Government of Egypt to deport as many as 1,200 asylum-seekers to Eritrea. Since last week, the Egyptian Government has reportedly scheduled several flights...

Amnesty International Friday condemned Egypt for plans to deport approximately 1,200 detained Eritrean refugees despite the possibility that they may face torture in their home country. The group called for Egypt to allow the UN...

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear eight cases , including FCC v. Fox Television Stations (07-582) , where the Court will review a June 2007 ruling...

The US State Department Tuesday heavily criticized the right records of North Korea, Iran, Myanmar, Syria, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Eritrea and Sudan Tuesday in its annual report on worldwide human rights observance. In the introduction to the...

The number of journalists behind bars decreased from 134 in 2006 to 127 at the end of 2007, according to a year-end report issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Wednesday. China incarcerates...

The United States has gained ground as a country protecting press freedom, according to the sixth annual Worldwide Index of Freedom issued Tuesday by Reporters Without Borders (RWB) . RWB listed Eritrea, North Korea, and Turkmenistan...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice released the annual State Department Report on International Religious Freedom Friday, criticizing what it considered to be sharp decreases in religious freedom and an increase in religious strife in several nations, including...