Sevan Nişanyan, a Turkish-Armenian journalist, wrote a blog entry last September stating that critical comments about religion don’t constitute hate speech. “Making fun of an Arab leader who claimed he contacted God hundreds of years ago and received political, financial and sexual benefits is not hate speech,” he said.

“The police [are] working within the parameters of the law,” Uganda’s information minister, Mary Karooro Okurut, told journalists on Monday in Kampala, hours after police had forced two newspapers and two radio stations to shut down while they conducted a search – and kept them shut.

Уровень политической нестабильности и уличного насилия в Сирии остается высоким. Беседуя недавно в Москве со специалистами по Ближневосточному региону, я услышала, что их оценки перспектив Башара Асада весьма разнятся. Между тем в самой Сирии разгневанные кремлевской поддержкой Асада люди жгли на улицах российские флаги.

В Москве сейчас так же невыносимо жарко, как было тогда в Грозном. Кажется, еще немного и расплавятся мозги.

They had been beaten, whipped, shocked with electric batons and even raped. Food was scarce and forced labor common. Cambodians who have spent time in the country's drug detention centers described these outrageous abuses and horrible conditions, and more.

Two weeks ago, the FBI released annual crime statistics showing that reported rapes were at a 20-year low.

In 1991, her stepfather watched helplessly as 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted while walking to her school bus stop near their home in Northern California. It was every parent's worst nightmare.