Tag: Human rights and civil liberties
Judge tells Honolulu police to release footage of shooting
HONOLULU — A judge ordered Honolulu officials to turn over unedited police body camera footage to attorneys representing the family of a South African...
Mississippi city honors Freedom Rider legacy 60 years later
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi's capital city is honoring the civil rights activism of the late Rev. C.T. Vivian 60 years after he and other...
La. governor criticizes police in deadly arrest of Black man
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday denounced the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene as “regrettable," criticizing the state troopers...
Biden calls Belarus plane diversion an ‘outrageous incident’
President Joe Biden on Monday said the forced diversion by Belarus of a commercial passenger jet so it could arrest an opposition journalist was...
Vatican issues a street art stamp, ends up getting sued
ROME — One night in early 2019, Rome street artist Alessia Babrow glued a stylized image of Christ she had made onto a bridge...
Kansas woman alleging dorm rape convenes own grand jury
MISSION, Kan. — A Kansas woman who alleges consensual sex with a friend in his college dorm room turned into a terrifying assault took...
Iraqi protesters take to streets, decry targeted killings
BAGHDAD — Hundreds of Iraqis took to the streets in Baghdad on Tuesday to protest what they say is the impunity of those behind...
Factory boss defiant as sanctions bite in China’s Xinjiang
AKSU, China — A backlash against reports of forced labor and other abuses of the largely Muslim Uyghur ethnic group in Xinjiang is taking...
100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, still toting the damage
TULSA, Okla. — On a recent Sunday, Ernestine Alpha Gibbs returned to Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Suspect arrested in South Florida synagogue harassment
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. — Police have arrested a man who they say yelled antisemitic remarks at a rabbi and dumped a bag of human...