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Pussy Riot band member Maria Alyokhina announces prison hunger strike

Maria Alyokhina in jail

WNN Breaking (WNN/RFE/RL) Berezniki, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, EASTERN EUROPE: A parole hearing in the Russian town of Berezniki has been adjourned until May 23 after a jailed member of the all-female opposition group Pussy Riot refused to continue taking part via video-link. At the hearing on May 22, the court rejected Maria Alyokhina’s requests to be [...]

Murder case of Russian human rights journalist Anna Politkovskaya re-opened

Grave of human rights jouranlist Anna Politkovskaya

WNN Breaking (WNN/RFE/RL) Moscow, RUSSIA, EAST ASIA: The case of the 2006 killing of Russia’s prominent investigative human rights journalist Anna Politkovskaya is set now to be tried again in court as more charges are being brought forward in the case. Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said on May 21, 2013 that four men [...]

Survivors search for missing children & others after Oklahoma tornado

Rescuers search for survivors of the Moore, Oklahoma tornado

WNN Breaking (WNN) Moore, Oklahoma, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: As a 2 mile wide tornado categorized as a F4 to F5, the most severe rating a tornado can achieve, barreled into the town of Moore, Oklahoma touched down yesterday afternoon at 2:46pm (U.S. Central Time Zone), it hit buildings and lives ten minutes later. Crews have [...]

EVAW Law to protect women & girls in Afghanistan stalled in Parliament

Afghan women gathering

WNN Breaking (WNN) Kabul, AFGHANISTAN, CENTRAL ASIA: Going in what numerous human rights organizations say is a ‘giant step backwards’, the Lower Afghan Parliament, known as the Wolesi Jirga, has been debating the reversal of a protective law called the EVAW – Elimination Against Violence Women Law. This Law was officially endorsed by Afghan President [...]

Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum speaks on justice & sentencing in Guatemala

National court room Guatemala audience responds to sentencing of General Efraín Ríos Montt

WNN Breaking (WNN) Guatemala City, GUATEMALA, SOUTH AMERICA: The long struggle for justice has come to a point of resolution this week as the High Impact Court “A”courtroom conviction of Guatemala’s ex-president General Efraín Ríos Montt brings relief and emotional tears to many of Guatemala’s indigenous. As judgement and sentencing was passed in the National [...]

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