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The video clip depicting the torture of 21-year old minibus driver Emad El Kebir was sent to the cell phones of fellow drivers to warn them that the same can happen to them if they refuse to do the bidding of security officers. Kebir's humiliation in the Bulaq...
Human rights activists say that systematic police brutality is part of the Egyptian security apparatus, and has been on the rise. Torture became widespread in the early 1990s, but was focused on Islamist militants and their families. More recently, though, non-political detainees have also begun to report being tortured...
> Dink, 52, a widely respected journalist and editor of Agos, a Turkish and Armenian newspaper, was gunned down in front of his office in central Istanbul on Friday. He had been branded a "traitor" by nationalists for his comments on the genodice of Armenians in the then Ottoman Empire during...
But Dink's murder may yet serve as a wake-up call. Since Friday, tens of thousands of people have flocked to his newspaper offices to pay their respects, many chanting slogans like "We are all Armenians." On Tuesday, thousands filled the streets to pay homage to Dink, carrying the...
The contrast between Soi Cowboy and the neighboring streets is all the more striking, because the majority of Thai women are quite modest. Their collars are high, their hemlines low. Their bra straps do not peek out from under their shirts. A local newspaper recently ran an advice column counseling...