HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights groups claim that Chinese security forces fired upon dozens of Tibetan protesters during a protest march.

Turkey's ambassador to France Tahsin Burcuoglu told reporters he was saddened by the vote.

There are currently nearly 100 journalists in prison in Turkey.

The ethnic Chinese population of Indonesia has long existed as a despised and envied minority group.

Accusing the Arab League of attempting to interfere in internal government affairs, Syria rejected a call for President Bashar al-Assad to step down, just as the European Union tightened sanctions on the country.

Iraq risks sliding back toward authoritarian rule with Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's security forces cracking down on protests, harassing opponents, and torturing detainees, a U.S.-based human-rights monitor said on Sunday.

Protesters stormed the Benghazi headquarters of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) Saturday while its chairman was still in the building. The attack is a blow to the self-appointed but internationally recognized NTC, and it underscores growing discontent over the way it is running the country.

Al-Qaeda has always had a strong presence in Yemen, but with the country currently in the middle of a governmental transition, the terrorist group has launched a violent campaign for land and power.

India has urged Sri Lanka to continue reconciliation efforts started at the end of the island nation's brutal 30-year conflict with Tamil separatists.

A prominent Chinese dissident, who escaped to the U.S. last week, has said that he was physically assaulted and harassed in China before he decided to leave the country with his wife and young son.

Several prominent liberals have co-sponsored both SOPA and PIPA, while several conservative lawmakers -- including Michelle Bachmann, Paul Ryan and Rand Paul -- have opposed it.

Martin Luther King III has announced his resignation from his post as president of The King Centre with immediate effect, in a statement published on Atlanta Business Chronicle website on Tuesday. The King center, founded in 1968 is a hub, that is devoted to the legacy of his father Dr. Martin Luther King, and is the largest repository of primary source material on him and American Civil Rights Movement in the world.

Rick Perry took a big bite out of Bret Baier's bait during Monday's South Carolina debate when he claimed that Turkey was run by what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists.

Veteran dissident has been indicted by Chinese authorities on charges of attempting to subvert the state for writing a poem urging people to gather to defend their freedoms, his lawyer said Tuesday, the latest in a string of indictments or trials of popular dissidents this year.

The murder trial of Dink brings to end a five-year odyssey that brought back terrible memories of Turkey’s troubled relations with its minorities, particularly Armenians.

All told, 600 people are believed to have been executed in Iran last year.

Ethiopia's government has seized land from 70,000 indigenous farmers, giving it to commercial developers while leaving the farmers without adequate food or resources, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

British government officials are determined to expel Qatada from the country.

Wikipedia will initiate a blackout on Wednesday, Jan. 18, in protest of the anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. SOPA and PIPA are two Congressional bills meant to halt the illegal copying and sharing of movies and music on the Internet. However, major Internet organizations- such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing - claim the bills will hinder their operations and they are ready to protest.

Following in the footsteps of Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Guatemala's newly elected president, Otto Perez Molina, is going to use the military to combat drug trafficking in his country.

Twelve people were killed Monday in Syria, where a peace plan monitored by Arab observers has failed to douse a 10-month-old struggle between President Bashar al-Assad and his foes.