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Aleksandr Sidorov is on a quest to get Russians to engage in a discussion about the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the country’s most homophobic cities... Qatar Blocks Independent News Website
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Four years ago, Walid Taleb’s boss fastened a long chain around his neck, dragged him around “like a dog” and beat him severely. Why? Because Walid, an undocumented Egyptian migrant, had asked his employer for wages owed to him... Middle East/North Africa Women Should Take the Wheel in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia remains the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving... Asia Secretive Detention System Mars China's Anti-Corruption Campaign
The Chinese government should immediately abolish a secretive detention system used to coerce confessions from corruption suspects...
