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Jakarta police discharged 99 officers in 2012

The Jakarta Metropolitan Police Command has dishonorably discharged 99 of its officers this year for various serious ...

1,793 prisoners granted Christmas remission in NTT

More than 1790 Christian prisoners in the East Nusatenggara province will receive Christmas remission on Tuesday. ...

Deputy police chief calls for investigation of Pekanbaru torture case

National deputy police chief (Wakapolri), Commisioner General Police Nanan Sukarna, has asked for a thorough ...

Indonesia increasingly contributing to human rights cause: UN

The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay has stated that Indonesia has been ...

Violence against Shiite muslims in Sampang condemned

Various parties including NGOs, politicians, ministers and the president have condemned the latest violence against ...

South Sudan soldiers kill, rape, torture civilians: UN

South Sudanese soldiers have killed, raped and tortured civilians in the troubled eastern state of Jonglei, ...

UN ends Syria mission as Aleppo under renewed attack

The United Nations called an end to its observer mission in Syria on Thursday, while activists reported more ...

Amnesty: Israel must end imprisonment without trial

Israel must free all Palestinians held without charges under so called "administrative detention" orders or give them ...

Pakistan bomb kills three, injures six: police

A remote-controlled bomb targeting a police van killed three passers-by and wounded six other people in Pakistan`s ...

Amnesty critisizes US for unlawful Bin Laden raid

Amnesty International criticized the United States on Wednesday for its use of lethal force, particularly for the ...

Gunmen shoot dead jail warden in Pakistan: police

Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot dead a senior prison official in Pakistan`s troubled southwestern city of Quetta, ...

Dutch citizen to be handed to prosecutor: police

A Dutch citizen, Bedrettin Kaya, who allegedly committed a torture against a police brigadier here, will immediately ...

Annan says he will return to Damascus soon: diplomat

UN and African Union envoy Kofi Annan Tuesday told the UN Security Council he intends to return to Damascus in the ...

9/11 defendents charge in Guantanamo court

The five men accused of plotting the deadly September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States were formally charged ...

Police shoot dead two suspected terrorists

Police have shot dead two suspected terrorists at Pondok Aren in the southwestern outskirts of Jakarta. "True, we ...