Asma Jahangir is a founder and Chair of The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, an independent, voluntary, non-profit organization unassociated with the government....
University of California police officers using a taser gun on an Iranian-American student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, in the Powell Library at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles).
Sectarian divide
excerpt from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4229337.stm
With a majority of Shia Muslims, religion is potentially a very divisive issue in Bahrain.
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