After the US staged a raid in Libya and captured terror suspect Abu Anas al-Libi, the United States is detaining him on a US Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea, according to media reports.
Concerns have been raised about both his capture and his treatment.India needs to address provisions in laws and rules governing the Internet that are over-broad and ambiguous, and which have been misused to arrest those critical of the government and put pressure on media companies to censor content.
Iran should halt the death penalty, as rate of hangings rise.
Kuwait developed a medical test to ‘detect’ homosexuals and prevent them from entering the country, a Kuwaiti official claimed. Homosexuality is outlawed in Kuwait and many Gulf states, and imitating the opposite sex is also outlawed in Kuwait.
Russian authorities are taking liberties with their laws, with the aim of warning the public about the limits of “acceptable” criticism of Russia’s government.
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