VIETNAM DISSIDENT SENTENCED TO 30 MONTHS IN JAIL
By CHRIS BRUMMITT A U.S-trained lawyer and well-known dissident Le Quoc Quan, right, listens to the judge during his trial in Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday Oct. 2, 2013. The Hanoi…
Human rights and civil liberties
NC REPUBLICANS VOW TO FIGHT US DOJ OVER VOTER LAWS
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and PETE YOST FILE – In a June 30, 1982 file photo, President Ronald Reagan signs an expansion of the 1965 Voting Rights Bill during a ceremony…
SWEDISH GYPSY FILE BRINGS RACIAL PROFILING FEARS
By MALIN RISING In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, Marcello Demeter stands on the balcony of his apartment in a Stockholm suburb. About a week ago, the 42-year-old…
THOUSANDS PROTEST AS SUDAN OFFICIALS PROMISE CASH
By MAGGIE MICHAEL Sudanese anti-government protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets in night march in…
WANTED GREEK LAWMAKER GIVES HIMSELF UP
By DEMETRIS NELLAS An anti-terror police officer carries a box containing the case file against the arrested suspects of the extreme far-right Golden Dawn party as he arrives at the…
JAILED RUSSIAN TYCOON IS HONORED BY LECH WALESA
By ALIK KEPLICZ Solidarity founder and former Polish President Lech Walesa, left, gives his foundation’s annual prize to the son of imprisoned Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Pavel Khodorkovsky, in Gdansk,…
GREEK FAR-RIGHT LEADER, OTHER LEGISLATORS ARRESTED
By DEMETRIS NELLAS Leader of the extreme far-right Golden Dawn party Nikos Michaloliakos, center, is escorted by anti-terror police as he exits Greek Police headquarters, in Athens, Saturday, Sept. 28,…
SOUTHERN STATES ARE MOVING TO TIGHTEN VOTING RULES
By MICHAEL J. MISHAK FILE – This June 25, 2013, file photo shows representatives from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund standing outside the Supreme Court in Washington, awaiting a decision…