Traditional Rulers Make Claim in Agrarian Reform by Kristy Siegfried, IRIN BABANANGO/JOHANNESBURG — The pace of land reform in South Africa has long been criticized as too slow, but experts and black South Africans still awaiting restitution fear that the recent… Read moreSOUTH AFRICA: NEW STRUGGLE FOR LAND
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Amnesty International demanded an investigation based on findings of human rights abuses including torture by the Hong Kong police. Amnesty's report focuses on brutality during arrests during the recent mass protests. Interviews of arrested persons and their lawyers by Amnesty revealed that while police violence most commonly occurred before and during arrest, in several cases detained protesters have also been severely beaten in custody and suffered other ill-treatment amounting to torture. (Photo: United Social Press via HKFP)
A group of local Kurdish Americans gathered in New York's Union Square to show their support for Kobani, the Kurdish town in northern Syria now besieged by ISIS.
Members of Syria's Alawite sect took to the streets of Homs to protest a deadly car bomb attack on an elementary school, for the first time taking up anti-regime slogans.
