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News Human rights activist Jestina Mukoko allegedly poisoned in Zimbabwe prison
Human rights activist Jestina Mukoko allegedly poisoned in Zimbabwe prison
Tarah Park
January 4, 2009 10:17:00 am

Imprisoned Zimbabwe human rights activist and head of Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) Jestina Mukoko has allegedly been tortured and forced by prison officials to ingest drugs, according to a report in...

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Zimbabwe court denies release of human rights activists
Tarah Park
January 3, 2009 11:40:00 am

A Zimbabwe judge ruled Friday that Zimbabwe Peace Project leader Jestina Mukoko and 31 other activists charged with plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe must...

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News Rights group accuses US of insufficient response to Gaza violence
Rights group accuses US of insufficient response to Gaza violence
Tarah Park
January 3, 2009 10:36:00 am

Human rights group Amnesty International USA on Friday accused the US of insufficiently responding to the Gaza crisis in a letter sent to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice . The letter claimed...

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News Russia commission to examine whether Soviet Union art sales lawful
Russia commission to examine whether Soviet Union art sales lawful
Tarah Park
December 9, 2008 07:31:00 pm

A Russian government commission is examining the legality of the Soviet Union's pre-World War II artwork sales, an official from the State Hermitage Museum said on Tuesday. Museum director Mikhail Piotrovsky said in his St. Petersburg state-of-the-museum...

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Europe court rules UK DNA database violates privacy rights
Tarah Park
December 4, 2008 01:41:00 pm

The European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled Thursday that the British practice of keeping the fingerprints and DNA profiles of people arrested but not convicted of crimes was against privacy rights and should not...

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Myanmar journalists sentenced to prison for possessing UN rights report
Tarah Park
December 1, 2008 07:28:00 am

A Myanmar court on Friday sentenced two reporters to seven years imprisonment for allegedly undercutting the country's military junta by possessing reports deemed seditious. Thet Zin and Sein Win Maung were found in February with a copy of a...

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Malaysia high court acquits migrant rights activist
Tarah Park
November 24, 2008 10:33:00 am

A Malaysian labor activist jailed for alleging police brutality against illegal immigrants in detention was acquitted by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Monday. Irene Fernandez , the director and cofounder...

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News Federal appeals court vacates Locy contempt order in anthrax reporting case
Federal appeals court vacates Locy contempt order in anthrax reporting case
Tarah Park
November 19, 2008 08:12:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has vacated a district court judge's contempt order against former USA Today reporter Toni Locy in connection with...

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Basque militant leader arrested in France
Tarah Park
November 17, 2008 10:41:00 am

French police on Monday arrested alleged leader of the Basque separatist group ETA Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina near the country's border with Spain. Aspiazu Rubina is suspected of leading the group's armed...

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UN SG concerned by ‘severe’ prison terms for Myanmar dissidents
Tarah Park
November 13, 2008 08:15:00 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern Wednesday about the lengthy and "severe" prison sentences recently issued by a Myanmar court against pro-democracy demonstrators. He called for the country's military junta to release...

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France abolishes slavery

On February 4, 1794, the legislature of France abolished slavery throughout the territories of the French Republic. The practice was then reinstituted by Napoleon in 1804, before being banned permanently in 1814 after Bonaparte was exiled to Elba. As of 2001, slavery is defined as a "crime against humanity" by French law.

Civil rights activist Rosa Parks born

On February 4, 1913, late civil rights activist Rosa Parks—who became famous in 1956 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man and go to the back of a Montgomery Alabama bus—was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Learn more about Rosa Parks.

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