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Turkey blasts China's treatment of Uighurs as 'embarrassment for humanity'
Turkey on Saturday condemned China's treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur people as "a great embarrassment for humanity," adding to rights groups' recent criticism over mass detentions of the Turkic-speaking minority. "The systematic assimilation policy of Chinese authorities towards Uighur Turks is a great embarrassment ...
Lawsuit calls power failure and lack of heat at federal NYC lockup a humanitarian crisis
A lawsuit brought by lawyers for inmates at a federal detention center in New York City calls a power failure that occurred there a "humanitarian crisis." The lawsuit was filed Monday in Brooklyn federal court by the Federal Defenders of New York. A message was left ...
Protesters pushed back at NYC federal jail where power is out amid freeze
Some demonstrators protesting the lack of heat and electricity at a federal detention center in New York City attempted to enter the facility Sunday, and witnesses said guards drove them back with pushes, shoves and pepper spray. A reporter and photographer for The Associated Press ...
Security firm linked to Blackwater founder Erik Prince signs preliminary Xinjiang training deal
A Hong Kong-listed security firm who has a former U.S. Navy SEAL on its board has signed a preliminary deal with authorities in China to build a training center in Xinjiang where Uighur Muslims have experienced a huge security crackdown. Frontier Services Group, which specializes ...
Flu hits 300 staffers and inmates at Nagoya Prison, sparking lockdown and state of emergency
The last time more than a hundred people at the prison caught the flu was in 2015 when 109 got sick.
The policy covers employment and housing support measures for former inmates to prevent them from reoffending.
Japan under scrutiny over ousted Nissan chief's continued detention after arrest
Questions and concerns about Japan are swirling internationally over its treatment of ousted Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, whose detention was extended following his arrest last week over alleged financial misconduct. The arrest of the 64-year-old executive, viewed as the automaker's savior, came out ...
French gangster who made Hollywood-esque helicopter jailbreak apprehended north of Paris
A gangster who made a Hollywood-esque helicopter jailbreak has been arrested in northern France after three months on the run, sources close to the inquiry said early Wednesday. Notorious French robber Redoine Faid was apprehended during the night in the Oise region north of Paris ...
Man who escaped from 'prison without walls' in Japan gets four more years in jail
The Matsuyama District Court sentenced a 27-year-old man to four more years in prison on Friday over his escape earlier this year from an open prison in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture. According to the ruling and other sources, Tatsuma Hirao broke out of a dormitory for ...
China must come clean about the fate of an estimated 1 million minority Muslims swept up in a "massive crackdown" in its far western region of Xinjiang, Amnesty International said Monday. Beijing has tightened restrictions on Muslim minorities to combat what it calls Islamic extremism ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi at World Economic Forum defends jailing of two Reuters journalists
Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday the jailing of two Reuters journalists had nothing to do with freedom of expression and they can appeal against their seven-year sentences. Suu Kyi, in her first public comment on the case since the two ...
Taiwan has executed a death row inmate, the first execution carried out under President Tsai Ing-wen's government, despite ongoing calls from rights groups to abolish the death penalty. Lee Hung-chi was executed at a prison in the southern city of Kaohsiung on Friday afternoon by ...
