Human rights
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Open letter released on anniversary of human rights crackdown says Beijing’s campaign of fear will not stop them
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Investigations are under way into the deaths of five men crushed by a concrete wall at metal recycling plant
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America's funding of Honduran security forces puts blood on our hands
John James Conyers, Jr and others
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Twenty-four-year-old legal assistant was taken away as part of nationwide crackdown on human rights lawyers
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‘They are put through the worst imaginable things,’ says Ai Xiaoming, whose documentary was sparked by Communist party’s year-old ‘war on law’
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Public security officials say vendor who disappeared in October, then was released in June, is overdue back on the mainland for further investigation
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Report catalogues torture, abductions and summary killings by insurgents in years since uprising against president
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After explosion on Thursday, vice-president speaks to King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa as political crisis puts kingdom’s ties to US and Gulf states in jeopardy
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Campaigners call for UK to reconsider support it provides to Kenyan police after latest apparent extrajudicial killing
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CAAT wins judicial review, saying UK-made weapons may be used in humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen
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The Guardian assesses the leading Tory leadership challengers on immigration, policing, civil liberties, human rights and negotiating in Europe
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Myanmar refugee Imran Mohammad Fazal Hoque writes of ‘inhumane and cruel torture’ suffered during 1,000 days in Australian-run detention and calls for government to find safe resettlement
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Queensland solicitor’s success in having shopping centre stop using high-pitched ‘Mosquito’ drives push for it to be barred around the country
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Chinese film directors’ guild concerned at reports that Pema Tseden was taken to hospital days after his detention at airport
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Several European countries cut off financial contributions to republic’s counter-narcotics campaign
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Chen Yunfei, a veteran campaigner from Sichuan province, faces 10 years in prison after travelling to the resting place of Wu Guofeng
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The founder of the Nazra for Feminist Studies was due to attend a human rights meeting but was refused permission to fly out of Cairo airport
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They opposed their employer’s decision not to cover ‘destructive’ ANC protests
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We must step up the struggle for LGBTI rights
Dhananjayan SriskandarajahCivil society groups are winning important rights victories, but we need a broad-based alliance to end discrimination
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After authorities ban a pride march, riot police turn weapons on marchers who had taken to the streets
Guardian Africa network Armed with smartphones and memes, Zimbabwe's protesters find their voice online