Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2178 world Human Rights en-us Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:47:27 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2178 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/world3681871259178583 oneworld/20091125/world3681871259178583 OneWorld.net world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:47:27 GMT OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (OneWorld.net) - The Obama administration announced yesterday that it would not be joining a treaty signed by 158 other countries to ban landmines. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the decision "lacks vision, compassion, and basic common sense." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_saudi_witchcraft ap/20091125/ml_saudi_witchcraft AP world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:46:27 GMT AP - Saudi Arabia should overturn a death sentence imposed on a Lebanese national convicted of practicing witchcraft during a visit to the conservative kingdom, an international human rights group said in a report late Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_iran_students_arrests nm/20091125/us_iran_students_arrests Reuters world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:51:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_iran_students_arrests"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r652862443.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=bdMQP4B678WvZaCb0TzvEg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves as he arrives at Simon Bolivar airport in Caracas, November 24, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Iran has detained scores of students in an apparent bid to prevent new opposition protests during annual Student Day events next month, a Western-based human rights group said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_iran_students_arrests"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r652862443.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=bdMQP4B678WvZaCb0TzvEg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves as he arrives at Simon Bolivar airport in Caracas, November 24, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091125/wl_nm/us_venezuela_iran nm/20091125/us_venezuela_iran Reuters world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:15:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091125/wl_nm/us_venezuela_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r2787837995.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=bpPPmdGoeGBNCaT.KPHegg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greets people outside the presidential palace in La Paz November 24, 2009. Ahmadinejad is on a one-day visit to Bolivia. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez used a visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday to brand Israel as a murderous agent of Washington.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091125/wl_nm/us_venezuela_iran"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091125/i/r2787837995.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=bpPPmdGoeGBNCaT.KPHegg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greets people outside the presidential palace in La Paz November 24, 2009. Ahmadinejad is on a one-day visit to Bolivia. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/wl_mideast_afp/kuwaitrightsmediacrimehrw afp/20091124/kuwaitrightsmediacrimehrw AFP world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:38:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/wl_mideast_afp/kuwaitrightsmediacrimehrw"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091124/capt.photo_1259077063426-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=126&q=85&sig=5ke3uh.PaYBhLo31GgCVFg--" align="left" height="126" width="130" alt="Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah addresses the National Assembly in Kuwait City. Human Rights Watch has called for the immediate release of a senior Kuwaiti journalist who remains in jail after refusing to pay bail over charges of slandering the prime minister.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Human Rights Watch has called for the immediate release of a senior Kuwaiti journalist who remains in jail after refusing to pay bail over charges of slandering the prime minister.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/wl_mideast_afp/kuwaitrightsmediacrimehrw"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091124/capt.photo_1259077063426-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=126&q=85&sig=5ke3uh.PaYBhLo31GgCVFg--" align="left" height="126" width="130" alt="photo" title="Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah addresses the National Assembly in Kuwait City. Human Rights Watch has called for the immediate release of a senior Kuwaiti journalist who remains in jail after refusing to pay bail over charges of slandering the prime minister.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/wl_afp/perutrialpoliticsfujimori afp/20091124/perutrialpoliticsfujimori AFP world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:45:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/wl_afp/perutrialpoliticsfujimori"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091124/capt.photo_1259030692166-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=gDCsINPdylXYULzL8BKpoQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Peru's Supreme Court has opened a three-day review into the 25-year prison sentence handed down to former president Alberto Fujimori, pictured, for human rights violations.(AFP/File/Raul Garcia Pereira)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Peru's Supreme Court has opened a three-day review of former president Alberto Fujimori's 25-year prison sentence for human rights violations.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/wl_afp/perutrialpoliticsfujimori"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091124/capt.photo_1259030692166-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=gDCsINPdylXYULzL8BKpoQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Peru's Supreme Court has opened a three-day review into the 25-year prison sentence handed down to former president Alberto Fujimori, pictured, for human rights violations.(AFP/File/Raul Garcia Pereira)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/wl_asia_afp/uschinarightsobamapoliticscongress afp/20091124/uschinarightsobamapoliticscongress AFP world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:22:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/wl_asia_afp/uschinarightsobamapoliticscongress"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091124/capt.photo_1259029257585-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=109&q=85&sig=Gc_D_DcnazosgtwJAbDAtg--" align="left" height="109" width="130" alt="File photo of Republican Representative Chris Smith, a long-time critic of Beijing's rights record, said President Barack Obama should "pick up the phone" and urge Chinese President Hu Jintao personally to ease pressure on a Beijing-based human rights lawyer, Jiang Tianyong.(AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US President Barack Obama should "pick up the phone" and urge Chinese President Hu Jintao personally to ease pressure on a Beijing-based human rights lawyer, Jiang Tianyong, US lawmakers said Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/wl_asia_afp/uschinarightsobamapoliticscongress"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091124/capt.photo_1259029257585-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=109&q=85&sig=Gc_D_DcnazosgtwJAbDAtg--" align="left" height="109" width="130" alt="photo" title="File photo of Republican Representative Chris Smith, a long-time critic of Beijing's rights record, said President Barack Obama should "pick up the phone" and urge Chinese President Hu Jintao personally to ease pressure on a Beijing-based human rights lawyer, Jiang Tianyong.(AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091124/wl_nm/us_tajikistan_women nm/20091124/us_tajikistan_women Reuters world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:14:20 GMT Reuters - The government of the Central Asian state of Tajikistan is failing to protect women from violence and abuse, human rights group Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091122/wl_afp/mideastconflictrightstoll afp/20091122/mideastconflictrightstoll AFP world Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:02:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091122/wl_afp/mideastconflictrightstoll"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091122/capt.photo_1258869708228-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=wTe379BXbVLQfLCGaaU0_A--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="Palestinian militants with the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) train in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed almost 8,900 lives in two decades, the vast majority of them Palestinians, the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said in a statement published on Sunday.(AFP/Said Khatib)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed almost 8,900 lives in two decades, the vast majority of them Palestinians, the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said in a statement published on Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091122/wl_afp/mideastconflictrightstoll"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091122/capt.photo_1258869708228-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=wTe379BXbVLQfLCGaaU0_A--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="photo" title="Palestinian militants with the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) train in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed almost 8,900 lives in two decades, the vast majority of them Palestinians, the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said in a statement published on Sunday.(AFP/Said Khatib)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_iran_rights_un nm/20091120/us_iran_rights_un Reuters world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:48:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_iran_rights_un"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091120/i/r3168844915.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=FYpsYLEpgXtRyQcDUu.sSA--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="A man with a cane gestures towards a woman on the ground during protests in central Tehran June 14, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee condemned Iran on Friday for a violent crackdown on protesters after presidential elections this year that the Iranian opposition says were rigged.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_iran_rights_un"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091120/i/r3168844915.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=FYpsYLEpgXtRyQcDUu.sSA--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man with a cane gestures towards a woman on the ground during protests in central Tehran June 14, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/wl_mideast_afp/uniranrights afp/20091120/uniranrights AFP world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:08:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/wl_mideast_afp/uniranrights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258744089926-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=71&q=85&sig=p9HkFDBkZ00wbSgKY0w7Gg--" align="left" height="71" width="130" alt="Supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi clash with police during a protest in Tehran on June 20, 2009. A UN panel on Friday blasted Iran for "serious, ongoing and recurring" human rights violations, including violence against protesters after the disputed June presidential elections.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A UN panel on Friday blasted Iran for "serious, ongoing and recurring" human rights violations, including violence against protesters after the disputed June presidential elections.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/wl_mideast_afp/uniranrights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258744089926-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=71&q=85&sig=p9HkFDBkZ00wbSgKY0w7Gg--" align="left" height="71" width="130" alt="photo" title="Supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi clash with police during a protest in Tehran on June 20, 2009. A UN panel on Friday blasted Iran for "serious, ongoing and recurring" human rights violations, including violence against protesters after the disputed June presidential elections.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/wl_afp/russiagermanydiplomacy afp/20091120/russiagermanydiplomacy AFP world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:51:17 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/wl_afp/russiagermanydiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258743054826-1-0.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=vFsrzheYd1Bf8TPnSVtlrw--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) meets with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (L) in Moscow. Westerwelle emphasised strong relations with Russia during his first visit to Moscow Friday, but remained discreet on human rights issues.(AFP/Natalia Kolesnikova)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Germany's new Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle emphasised strong relations with Russia during his first visit to Moscow Friday, but remained discreet on human rights issues.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/wl_afp/russiagermanydiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258743054826-1-0.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=vFsrzheYd1Bf8TPnSVtlrw--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="photo" title="Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) meets with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (L) in Moscow. Westerwelle emphasised strong relations with Russia during his first visit to Moscow Friday, but remained discreet on human rights issues.(AFP/Natalia Kolesnikova)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/india_nm/india441200 nm/20091120/india441200 Reuters world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:43:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/india_nm/india441200"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091120/i/ra2123769080.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=QhvQ3oc2dqUY2L6x3B2PLA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Sarath Fonseka, salutes during his farewell ceremony in Colombo, November 16, 2009. Fonseka, who quit amid speculation he could run for president, pledged on Friday to fight for democracy and human rights after the end of a 25-year separatist war, suggesting he would soon announce his candidacy. REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Files" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Sri Lanka's top general, who quit amid speculation he could run for president, pledged on Friday to fight for democracy and human rights after the end of a 25-year separatist war, suggesting he would soon announce his candidacy.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/india_nm/india441200"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091120/i/ra2123769080.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=QhvQ3oc2dqUY2L6x3B2PLA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Sarath Fonseka, salutes during his farewell ceremony in Colombo, November 16, 2009. Fonseka, who quit amid speculation he could run for president, pledged on Friday to fight for democracy and human rights after the end of a 25-year separatist war, suggesting he would soon announce his candidacy. REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Files" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/wl_mideast_afp/israellawprison afp/20091120/israellawprison AFP world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:35:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/wl_mideast_afp/israellawprison"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258709713569-1-0.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=MzRyVDPnM8T_7MGRleN1og--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="Palestinian prisoners are pictured in an Israeli prison in southern Israel's Negev in 2007. In a landmark decision, Israel's supreme court has thrown out a law allowing privately-run prisons, arguing that running jails for profit would be a "grave" violation of inmates' human rights.(AFP/File/Jack Guez)" border="0" /></a>AFP - In a landmark decision, Israel's supreme court has thrown out a law allowing privately-run prisons, arguing that running jails for profit would be a "grave" violation of inmates' human rights.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/wl_mideast_afp/israellawprison"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258709713569-1-0.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=MzRyVDPnM8T_7MGRleN1og--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="Palestinian prisoners are pictured in an Israeli prison in southern Israel's Negev in 2007. In a landmark decision, Israel's supreme court has thrown out a law allowing privately-run prisons, arguing that running jails for profit would be a "grave" violation of inmates' human rights.(AFP/File/Jack Guez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_rights_un nm/20091120/us_rights_un Reuters world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:05:10 GMT Reuters - A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Myanmar on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/wl_nm/us_china_dissident nm/20091119/us_china_dissident Reuters world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:17:09 GMT Reuters - A student leader of China's 1989 pro-democracy movement who has long lived in the United States went on trial in China on Thursday, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama finished a visit that raised human rights. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_af/af_guinea ap/20091119/af_guinea AP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:20:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_af/af_guinea"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1258728649188-1-0.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=NfHYjGPUylqaSPrTfsCjug--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="Police arresting a protester in front of the Conakry's biggest stadium during a protest banned by Guinea's ruling junta in September 2009. Guinea's military junta on Wednesday threatened to keep opposition leaders out of a presidential election which the country's poll watchdog said would be impossible to hold anyway.(AFP/File/Seyllou)" border="0" /></a>AP - A human rights activist says he's been denied entrance to Guinea, where he planned to investigate a massacre of opposition supporters earlier this year.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_af/af_guinea"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091125/capt.photo_1258728649188-1-0.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=NfHYjGPUylqaSPrTfsCjug--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="Police arresting a protester in front of the Conakry's biggest stadium during a protest banned by Guinea's ruling junta in September 2009. Guinea's military junta on Wednesday threatened to keep opposition leaders out of a presidential election which the country's poll watchdog said would be impossible to hold anyway.(AFP/File/Seyllou)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_as/as_china_tiananmen ap/20091119/as_china_tiananmen AP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:36:25 GMT AP - An exiled former leader of the 1989 student pro-democracy movement went on trial on financial fraud charges Thursday in southwestern China, a case highlighted by his controversial handover to the mainland from Hong Kong. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/wl_nm/us_rights_amnesty nm/20091119/us_rights_amnesty Reuters world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:29:36 GMT Reuters - The global economic crisis must not be used as an excuse to unwind human rights for the millions of people now thrown back into poverty, Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan said Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/wl_nm/us_cuba_usa_rights nm/20091118/us_cuba_usa_rights Reuters world Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:48:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/wl_nm/us_cuba_usa_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091118/i/r961016792.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=pr.HWrwstoCfPlMPLGRlzQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Cuba's President Raul Castro attends a ceremony at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana September 30, 2009. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Cuba's Raul Castro has kept the system his brother Fidel used to repress critics, refusing to free scores of people imprisoned years ago and jailing others for "dangerousness," Human Rights Watch said in a report issued on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/humanrights/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/wl_nm/us_cuba_usa_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091118/i/r961016792.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=pr.HWrwstoCfPlMPLGRlzQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="photo" title="Cuba's President Raul Castro attends a ceremony at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana September 30, 2009. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)