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Outrage after two men publicly flogged in Indonesia on being found guilty of gay sex

A Shariah court in Indonesia’s Aceh province sentenced two men to public caning after neighbourhood vigilantes caught them having gay sex in a...

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Inmate Only Pretended to Take Mind-Altering Drugs : Ruse Saved Sanity, Soviet Dissident Says

VIENNA — For almost six months, Viktor Davydov conned doctors in a Soviet psychiatric prison into thinking he was taking the mind-altering drugs...

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University students lashed 185 times with rattan sticks for LGBTQ+ relations

Two university students have been flogged 185 times with rattan sticks in Indonesia for engaging in same-sex sexual relations.

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These Human Rights Defenders Were Hacked by Pegasus. Now They Want Police to Charge the Spyware Maker.

Anas Altikriti was in London, and busy, on the day in July 2020 when his phone was hacked. He frequently works as a hostage negotiator and, at the...

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“The New York Times” Refused to Run Our Ad About the Gaza Genocide

The paper told my organization that we couldn’t use the word “genocide” in a paid ad. So we walked away.

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Leonard Peltier leaves prison after Biden commuted sentence in killing of FBI agents

Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement...

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Amnesty International Concludes That Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza

On the morning of December 14, 2023, an Israeli airstrike killed three generations of Ahmad Nasman’s family in Gaza. In a single blow, his wife,...

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