Human rights abuses

Ben Emerson, UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism has called for prosecution of those responsible for torturing terrorism suspects.

"It has taken four years since the report was finalised to reach this point," said Emmerson in a statement, released by the UN news centre.

A former Bosnian Serb Army officer told the trial of Ratko Mladic that he never received an order to carry out the ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs in the Kotor-Varos area.

BELGRADE - The police are working to find out who was responsible for creating flyers with hate speech against the Roma in Serbia, and the Republic of Serbia will not tolerate any form of discrimination, the Serbian Ministry of Interior (MUP) said in a statement on Monday.

BELGRADE - A total of 111 victims of human trafficking were identified in Serbia in the first ten months of the year, the data of the Centre for trafficking victims protection show.

The data were presented to mark the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, December 2.

The new documentary contains powerful testimony from 67 wartime detention camp prisoners about the torture, murders, physical and psychological abuse that they witnessed.

Montenegrin watchdog MANS urged the authorities to investigate allegations by a Bosniak ex-prisoner who was convicted of libel after writing a book about his alleged torture in jail during wartime.

A court in Eskişehir has acquitted 173 people who were tried for attending last year’s Gezi Park protests, on the grounds that they had used their right to free expression.

A total of 176 people, including two lawyers, were facing up to three years in prison on charges of resisting a public officer, insulting, damaging public property and violating the demonstration law.

The United States said Nov. 12 it did not condone torture under any circumstances, but acknowledged to a UN anti-torture watchdog it had "crossed the line" following the September 11 attacks.
      

Ten women have died in India and dozens more are in hospital, some in a critical condition, after a state-run programme that pays women to undergo sterilisation went badly wrong, officials said Tuesday.
      

Canada's Immigration Minister Chris Alexander Wednesday unveiled plans to ban entry to migrants who practice polygamy and what he termed "barbaric cultural practices."