All news on the topic: Human rights

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UK's anti-terror programme failing to tackle 'non-violent Islamist extremism'
Suella Braverman said 'major reform' is needed of the controversial Prevent programme after a long-delayed review. But Amnesty International said it was 'riddled with biased thinking, errors, and plain anti-Muslim prejduice'
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Tory slams Rishi Sunak's 'phoney war' against European human rights rules
Conservative Jackie Doyle-Price insisted the Prime Minister should tackle the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats by getting the Home Office into shape rather than trying to pick a fight with the courts
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Hundreds spared the noose as Iran Ayatollah offers thousands amnesty
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed thousands will be pardoned or have their sentences dramatically reduced after four months of protests saw 522 Iranians killed
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Iran facing same issues as stadiums re-open after World Cup protests
Domestic fixtures are being played in front of supporters after regime decided to reopen stadiums but women remain banned as protestors calling for equality continue to be killed
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Fury of female prison officers ordered to strip search dangerous trans convict
The transfer of Tiffany Scott - formerly known as Andrew Burns - from HMP Low Moss, near Glasgow, to a women’s prison was blocked after plans by Scottish Prison Service became known
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Christian mum suing school as son 'forced into LGBT parade' blasts headteacher
Devoutly Christian mum Izzy Montague has claimed Heavers Farm Primary School in South Norwood is "corrupt", saying that her "issue was forcing children to parade for LGBT"
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Inquiry launched into Omagh bombing 25 years after IRA atrocity which killed 29
Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris told the House of Commons that the probe will be set up following a court judgement compelling the government to investigate
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Failed asylum seeker who killed woman, 87, he befriended held at secure hospital
Shahin Darvish-Narenjbon was refused asylum in 2013 after coming to the UK to study, and was experiencing schizophrenia when he strangled and stabbed the woman who had treated him 'like a grandson'
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Christian mum sues son's school claiming he had to take part in LGBT parade
In a first case of its kind, Central London County Court will scrutinise the legality of imposing LGBT ideology on schools after a mum said she wants children "to receive an education, rather than indoctrination"
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North Korea students get frostbite after 'patriotic' subzero mountain march
Students in North Korea have been injuring themselves and bribing officials so they can swerve going on a government tour of Mount Paektu - the country's national emblem and official birthplace of Kim Jong-Il
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Abandoned prison which caged dangerous cartel killers found by urban explorer
The building was opened as a state prison in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, in 1943 and closed in September 2019 following a string of riots and protests between prisoners
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Labour MP apologises for branding Israeli government 'fascist' in Parliament
Kim Johnson's remark was branded "completely unacceptable" by Keir Starmer's official spokesman, and she is expected to be spoken to by the party's chief whip
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'I’m a disabled person, not a person with a disability - it's a constant battle'
Disabled people battle constantly to be called what they are, with AP Styleguide's recent tweet a "vomit-inducing" example of the problem, says Mirror columnist Rachel Charlton-Dailey
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Tory likens Rishi Sunak's Government to 'band on Titanic' in leaked WhatsApps
Backbench Tory MP Lee Anderson ranted that any officials blocking Government efforts to stem the flow of small boat crossings may be guilty of 'treason' in a tranche of leaked messages
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Killer now identifies as an infant who wears nappies and wants baby food in jail
Sophie Eastwood, who was named Daniel at the time of their sentencing, is serving a life term at Polmont prison in Brightons, Scotland for using shoelaces to strangle a cell-mate to death in 2004
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Madeleine McCann suspect moans he's being treated 'worse than a Nazi' in prison
In a rant from behind bars, Christian Brueckner said he is being deprived of his “prison rights” on visitors as German authorities fear he will get “sexual satisfaction”
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School slammed by parents for barricading toilets shut during lesson time
The decision taken by officials at Castle View School in Essex has caused fury among some parents, including one mum who said it was 'against their human rights'
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Triple killer asylum seeker who murdered 'perfect boy' in e-scooter row jailed
Afghani asylum seeker Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, 21, murdered 21-year-old Thomas Roberts outside a Subway sandwich shop in Bournemouth after being freed for a double murder in Serbia
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High-ranking Russian officials escape Putin's grasp to defect to the West
Vladimir Osechkin knows the risks of defying Vladimir Putin and the Russian state after would-be assassins invaded his home and tried to kill his family before he escaped to France in 2015
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Hamilton sent emotional plea by prisoner begging star not to be "muzzled" by FIA
An inmate in a Bahrain prison has called on Lewis Hamilton to continue his protests against human rights abuses, amid FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem's call for drivers to stop making political statements
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FIA slammed by human rights group over rule against F1 and Hamilton protests
The FIA says it has changed the rules around protests to bring them in line with similar regulations from other major sporting governing bodies, but one group claims it may impact the human rights of F1 drivers
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Labour calls for 'urgent action' on gangs taking asylum-seeking kids from hotels
There are 76 vulnerable children who went missing from accommodation in Brighton and Hove and still have not been found - Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper demanded the Home Office 'immediately end the contract with this hotel'
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Prosecutors set to re-open case of protesters putting cone on top Tory's head
The CPS said it is considering whether to appeal the decision which cleared Radical Haslam, 29, of Salford and Ruth Wood, 52, of Cambridge of harassing IDS with threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour
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Putin's enemy fears for his life after receiving bullet and death threat in post
Former FSB spy Boris Karpichkov, who received a sinister death threat, believes neither the police nor MI5 can protect him, claiming they have done little to protect him when similar threats arrived
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'Awaab Ishak's death could have changed things but the rot goes far deep'
In December 2020, a two-year-old boy died after he was left struggling to breathe when his throat became swollen and his lungs filled with poisonous mould but so many children are still living in the same conditions