Egypt Humans Rights Body Wants Laws Axed
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The government's own human rights body has recommended to President Hosni Mubarak that he scrap emergency laws he says he needs to fight terrorism, but which have been widely condemned as antidemocratic.
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LONDON - A British parliamentary committee accused the government on Sunday of breaking European human rights law with its curbs on terrorism suspects and urged it to do more to prosecute suspects ...Comment
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The White House on Monday voiced displeasure with recent decisions in Egypt to crack down on dissenting voices within the media and to close a human rights group, saying it is "deeply concerned" about the moves.
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Human Rights Watch urged Mexican  lawmakers on Wednesday to overhaul a justice system that breeds  torture and feeds notorious rights scandals like the murders of  hundreds of women near the U.S. border.
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CAIRO -- Egypt's best-known democracy movement has switched causes and is now focused on demanding an end to the country's peace treaty with Israel.
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European Union lawmakers adopted Thursday a resolution criticising Egypt's human rights record, as Cairo threatened to sever ties with the assembly and summoned EU ambassadors to complain.
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An international human rights group has accused President Yoweri Museveni's government of promoting "state homophobia" in Uganda and urged the repeal of a colonial-era law against sodomy.
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Egypt has cancelled political talks with senior European Union officials after a European Parliament resolution criticised the state of human rights in Egypt, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
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A coalition of Israeli human rights groups condemned the government's decision this week to cut back fuel and electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, saying it violated international law.
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An Islamic group behind much violence in Egypt in the 1990s says the attacks in Egypt's resorts were  "unlawful".
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Egypt reacts angrily to criticism of its human rights record by the United States - one of its main allies.
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Egypt ordered that 140 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood detained during a sweep be kept in custody for two weeks, judicial and security sources said.
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour urged South Korea to repeal its draconian security law, saying the legislation did not meet international standards for human rights protection.
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Egypt called on Israel on Tuesday to  investigate charges that Israeli troops led by Israel's current  infrastructure minister may have killed Egyptian prisoners of  war in 1967.
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Human Rights Watch Wednesday condemned Malaysia's plan to introduce tough laws that curb the movements of migrant employees and allow employers &quot;to lock up workers.&quot;
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A British parliamentary committee  accused the government on Sunday of breaking European human  rights law with its curbs on terrorism suspects and urged it to  do more to prosecute suspects instead.
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The government's anti-terror laws unfairly target Muslims and should be repealed, MPs hear.