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Honduras still has a long way to go to dismantle the “narco-state” that grew under ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, jailed this week for smuggling a deluge of cocaine into the United States, experts said. Hernandez, 55, spent years in positions of power cozying up to kingpins from some of Latin America’s most notorious cartels, which placed proxies in state institutions while he pocketed millions of dollars in drug money. Extradited to the United States upon leaving office in 2022, Hernandez was sentenced this week to 45 years in jail for his crimes after prosecutors said he had turned his country...

Peshawar 16 March 2011, security forces keep in custody more then three thousand people in swat and most of them are illegally detain, said the correspondent of human right watch association Ali Hasan Dayan in interview with media man. He said that during swat operation Pakistan army didn’t follow the rule of law and they detain innocent people in operation from different parts of swat. so in current situation a lot people missing in swat area . The relative of these missing people are tried to locate their beloved. He said that during operation the human right deferment is illegally...

When rendering judgment on the recent warfare in the Mideast, the souls at Human Rights Watch did sometimes scold Hezbollah, when Hezbollah was being particularly naughty. Bad Hezbollah! the rights watchers clucked, and they waggled their fingers and sent Hezbollah to bed without supper. More regularly, though, they condemned Israel, and by now we've lost count of how many opportunities they pounced upon to convict the Israelis of "war crimes." The kindred souls at Amnesty International piled on, accusing the Israelis even of "war crimes that give rise to individual criminal responsibility." War crimes. Yes, there are such things as...