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Amnesty International report: criticism or compliment?

Published: 27 May, 2010, 20:06
Edited: 28 May, 2010, 22:49


The human rights watchdog Amnesty International has lashed out at Russia and other world powers for endemic breaches of human rights. However, some believe that Russia must feel flattered about the report.

 
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joseph walker May 28, 2010, 13:03 quote
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Time these people at Amnesty got educated,human rights is about the rights of ordinary people who abide by laws which they uphold,if terrorist and others dont abide by laws ,then no laws are attributed to them.Time they went back to school and activated they dead brain cells.P.S Simple if people dont want to live by laws which govern society,then they forfiet any rights they had.

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