Tens of thousands have taken to the streets in Niger to protest President Mamadou Tandja’s plan for a new constitution to abolish term limits and give him more power after 10 years as president.
Police arrested 13 women in a raid on a cafe in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and flogged 10 of them in public for wearing trousers.
The Nigerian government freed militant leader Henry Okah, meeting a demand by Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)—one day after rebels blew up an oil depot in Lagos.
A police officer who was reported missing July 12 was found dead the next day near a mine operated in West Papua by the US conglomerate Freeport. Indonesian authorities blamed Papuan separatists.
Two more Uighurs were killed by police in Urumqi, while Chinese intellectuals have launched an online petition drive for detained Uighur economist Ilham Tohti.
Iran executed 13 members of the Sunni militant group Jundallah in Zahedan, Sistan-Baluchistan province, accused of attacks including a mosque bombing in May that killed 25 people..
The National Court of Spain July 14 dismissed charges against three US soldiers who were accused of being involved in the death of Spanish cameraman José Couso. The soldiers allegedly opened fire on a Baghdad hotel frequented by Western journalists… Read moreSpanish court dismisses charges against US soldiers for killing journalist in Iraq
Maulana Abdul Aziz warned that Pakistan faces a “bloody revolution” unless sharia law is announced nationwide. A bomb blast at the home of another cleric left at least nine dead.
The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras has filed a legal case against the coup plotters and perpetrators, while indigenous and campesino groups warn of deadly repression.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. From AP, July 10: Supermax prison: Obama’s books objectionable The federal government’s most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material… Read moreFederal idiocy in the news
Members of Congress called for an investigation into a secret program to kill al-Qaeda members following revelations that Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to withhold information about the program.
Rights observers in Afghanistan say US forces may have been directly involved in the mass slaying of up to 2,000 Taliban prisoners in 2001 who were sent across the desert in shipping containers.
