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Rights group urges United Arab Emirates not to deport striking immigrants

Asian labourers work at the construction site of a new track for the Dubai Metro, on May 22, 2013. Image via AFP.

Human Rights Watch on Saturday urged the United Arab Emirates not to deport migrant building workers for staging a rare strike to demand better pay and conditions. “It would be scandalous if the UAE deported workers who have taken a courageous stand for their basic rights,” HRW Middle East director…

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Libya militias accused of ‘revenge attacks’

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TRIPOLI — Misrata militias are carrying out revenge attacks on the displaced residents of the nearby town of Tawargha, a stronghold of Moamer Kadhafi loyalists during Libya’s eight-month conflict, a rights group said on Sunday. New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement it had received credible reports of…

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Libyan crackdown on protesters kills 24: rights group

CAIRO — A “day of anger” against Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi turned into a bloodbath when security forces gunned down at least 24 people in two of the country’s biggest cities, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. In a detailed account of the unrest in Benghazi and Al-Baida, the New…

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