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Moroccan journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi is arrested and charged with rape and aiding foreign spies. The charges come after Amnesty International reported that the Moroccan government was using Israeli spyware to spy on dissidents like him.
2020-07-29

Soldiers from North Korea and South Korea peacefully cross the Korean Demilitarized Zone for the first time since it was created in 1953.
2018-12-12

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the Doomsday Clock thirty seconds forward, to two minutes before midnight, the closest setting since 1953. The journal cites the closer approach to the point of hypothetical global catastrophe to the failure of world leaders to deal with looming threats of nuclear war (particularly, tensions involving the North Korean nuclear program) and climate change.
2018-01-25

Amnesty International designates Cuban graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado as a prisoner of conscience.
2015-09-29

A South Korean official claims that North Korea is placing land mines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone to stop soldiers from defecting. The Korean DMZ already contains an estimated 1 million mines.
2015-06-14

The United States enacts more sanctions on North Korea in response to their alleged involvement in the hacking attack on Sony. The sanctions target the North Korean Special Operation Force and 10 government officials.
2015-01-2

South Korea captures a North Korean fishing boat that had crossed into their waters amid rising tensions between the two neighboring countries.
2014-03-28

Amnesty International accuses Israel of willfully committing war crimes against the Palestinians.
2014-02-27

North Korea issues a new threat to strike targets on the United States mainland, Hawaii and Guam, as well as South Korea, days after a new US–South Korea military pact.
2013-03-26

Public executions, death by starvation and torture are common in North Korean political prisoner camps, according to testimony given to human rights group Amnesty International, which they say could contain as many as 200,000 prisoners.
2011-05-4