A drunken British tourist was in the midst of an attempted rape on a Chinese woman when he got the sh*t beaten out of him in the streets of Beijing on Tuesday night. The brutal incident that was captured on film by one of the men who put a stop to the attack has gone viral throughout much of Britain and China. The man is currently being held by Chinese authorities. GRAPHIC VIDEO:

In effort to dispel any rumors that Palestinians have rights under Israeli occupation, the Israeli Supreme Court turned down an appeal by two Palestinian hunger strikers to free them from detention without trial. Thaer Halahla and Bilal Diab are two of at least 1,550 Palestinian detainees currently on hunger strike after being held without charge under Israel’s so-called “administrative detention.” The strikes have become somewhat of a p.r. nightmare for Israel, drawing attention to its ongoing abuses and sparking international outrage from human rights groups. The Israeli group Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) condemned...

Two teenagers are being charged with sodomizing a 10 year old deaf boy on a school bus in Atlanta. But it gets worse… According to the child’s attorney Tommy Maddox, the molestation and sodomy took place repeatedly over the course of the school year and evidence suggests that the bus driver was aware of it. “He was just violated in every way you can imagine,” Maddox said. “Back in January the 14-year-old was on top of him and he screamed and that’s when it stopped. He didn’t know he could scream.” According to the Atlanta Journal, “The Atlanta Area School for the Deaf declined to...

Blind activist Chen Guangcheng told The AP that a U.S. official notified him of China’s intention to “beat his wife to death” if he didn’t pack his bags and get out of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, ASAP! While U.S. officials are denying knowledge of the threat, it was apparently serious enough that Chen split the embassy for a local Beijing hospital where he’s currently receiving medical care and was reunited with his family. Chen became quite a PR nightmare for China after exposing the government’s forced, late term abortion program. In recent days he skipped out on Chinese house arrest and caused quite...

The Israeli military has officially closed its investigation into the killing of 21 members of a Palestinian family, ruling out any chance of criminal prosecution for the soldiers involved in the incident. The case goes back to Israel’s 2009 Gaza war-crimes-extravaganza which left over 1,400 Palestinians dead, roughly half of which were civilians. In this particular incident, 100 members of the extended al Samouni family were ordered into a house by Israeli soldiers… who subsequently bombed the shit out of it, killing men, women, and children. Surprise! What’s incredibly unsurprising however is that Israeli investigators...

Human rights activists are outraged over the 2010 death of Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas, a 42-year-old immigrant, after a new shocking video has been released of him begging and pleading with the border agents who tasered and beat him. “This shocking new footage of the death of Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas raises serious questions about the disturbing pattern of violence, death and, possibly, murder at the hands of the Border Patrol,” said Arturo Carmona, executive director of Presente.org. More than a dozen border agents can be seen hovering over Hernandez-Rojas as he screams, “No! No! Dejenme! [Leave me alone!] No!...

Reports of virginity testing performed on young Zimbabwean schoolgirls have been met with criticism from women’s and children’s rights groups who are decrying the practice as a violation of dignity and respect. The tests were carried out on Grade 7 girls at Tsetse primary school without parental consent; parents have claimed that “the Child Protection Committee and the teachers threatened to beat up the pupils if they did not reveal whom they have slept with.” Linda Valerie Guzha, the Zimbabwe Programme Director for Days for Girls, has termed the process of virginity testing on girls as “taking 10 steps back in...

Saudi Arabia – A Sri Lankan woman is facing decapitation by sword following accusations of witchcraft from the father of a 13 year old girl. The woman came into brief contact with the girl at a local shopping mall and allegedly cast a spell on her. But how does the dad know this? According to reports in the daily Okaz, the man told authorities that his daughter “suddenly started acting in an abnormal way” which apparently was enough to determine that the Sri Lankan was in fact a witch, and for the Jeddah police to arrest her. The penalty of death by decapitation is of course derived from the principles of Wahhabism,...

U.S. soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division had quite the Kodak moment after orders led them to investigate and document the remains of three Afghan suicide bombers. Upon completing their mission, the paratroopers made the prudent decision to pose with body parts (heads, legs etc) and take pictures as if they were at a celebrity meet and greet. The LA Times broke the story earlier today, noting that they’d received the photos from a soldier who wanted to “draw attention to the safety risk of a breakdown in leadership and discipline” [within the U.S. Military]. The U.S. Army launched an immediate, “criminal...

The water supply of an all-girls high school in northern Afghanistan was poisoned in what educators believe to be a heinous attack aimed at deterring female education. Approximately 150 schoolgirls were affected by the poison, many experiencing symptoms including severe vomiting and headaches. Several of the girls remain in critical condition at a local hospital in the Takhar province. According to the education department spokesman, Jan Mohammad Nabizada, “We are 100 percent sure that the water they drunk inside their classes was poisoned. This is either the work of those who are against girls’ education or irresponsible armed...

Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Sweden’s Minister of Culture, was the subject of outrage after photos of her cutting into a cake depicting the genital mutilation of a stereotyped African woman circulated around the internet. Ummm Ya. Bad Idea. The cake was apparently an art installation for a tax payer funded event in celebration of World Art Day. According to The Local, the installation “was reportedly meant to highlight the issue of female circumcision,” and that it did! The most atrocious part of the exhibit, and yes, it does get worse, was the combination of screams coming from the head of the cake (a live performance...

Children’s rights activists in Egypt have united in their call for the government to act against the increase in child abductions since the revolution. A coalition consisting of 100 child advocacy groups has expressed serious concern at the negligible attention paid to the crisis by the new administration. Reports suggest that child abductions have risen threefold since the popular uprising and the Coalition on Children’s Rights has indicated a 300 percent increase in the number of abduction-related calls it receives from parents. Hani Helal, secretary-general of the Egyptian Coalition on Children’s Rights, has suggested...

Holy F*cking Sh*T! This is probably one of the most disturbing videos we’ve ever witnessed. Special needs student Andre McCollins was restrained and tortured with 31 electric shocks in one day at the Judge Rotenberg Center for the disabled. To make matters even more horrific, this video was sealed by a Massachusetts judge for EIGHT YEARS! According to their website: “The JUDGE ROTENBERG CENTER (JRC) is a special needs school in Canton, Massachusetts serving ages 3-adult. For 39 years JRC has provided very effective education and treatment to both emotionally disturbed students with conduct, behavior, emotional, and/or...

The use of fattening steroids among teenage prostitutes is becoming the norm in Bangladesh. Approximately 90% of sex workers in Bangladesh’s legal brothels use cow-fattening steroids to improve their appearance. Prostitution in the South Asian country is legal for those who over 18. However, some sex workers in brothels are as young as 12 and the girls younger than the legal age are made to take steroids in order to look older than they are. Forced to take the drugs by their madams, the drugs work to increase the young girls’ appetites, which adds curves and makes them appear healthy and older. The steroids also make them...

The European Court of Human Rights has removed the final significant obstacle to the extradition of five terrorism suspects from the UK to the U.S.. In ruling that extradition would not place the men at risk of human rights violations, the Court has effectively brought this contentious debate to an end. The suspects’ relatives have argued that the men should face trial in the UK, with the sister of one describing the decision to extradite as “a serious abuse of process.” The debate centres on the decision of British authorities to hand evidence over to the U.S., without examining it or deciding whether trial in the UK would...

Strange traditions that supposedly bring luck and prosperity run rampant throughout history. There are tales of sacrificing virgins to a volcano, sacrificing animals for a good harvest, and, of course, the all-important baby tossing? As part of a religious ritual in Karnataka, India, locals throw their children off a temple roof that is approximately 30 feet off the ground. We’re not kidding. Ironically, locals in the village of Nagrala believe the ritual brings health and good luck to the children, many of whom are less than two years old. Although, when you think about it, is there really any right age to be thrown off of a roof,...

Human Rights – Protests and conflict have marked the passing of a controversial education bill in Turkey. The new law overturns provisions made by the military in 1997 by allowing for middle-school education in religious institutions. Turkey is built on secular foundations, despite being populated by a strong Muslim majority. The new bill has met with heated opposition from secularists who claim that it affords too much influence to Islamic schools and detracts from the country’s secular stance. Opponents claim that Islamic schools serve as a breeding ground for militant Islamism and remove the opportunity for middle-school...

Human Rights – Eurasia – In 2011 Azerbaijan won the famed Eurovision singing competition, which draws 125 million viewers from more than 40 countries. In May they will host the 2012 contest in Baku, the capital. However, many people are calling for a boycott of the competition as the government has come under fire for a poor human rights record and its dissident clampdown. The Azerbaijan government was recently called out by Human Rights Watch (HRW) for entering into a controversial “city beautification” process in anticipation of Eurovision, which forced many people from their homes without compensation....

Human Rights – The bloody conflict continues in Syria after failed attempts to reach a ceasefire agreement between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the opposition this weekend. Reports of more killings in Homs are coming in today with at least a dozen people dead, including children. Today’s UN Security Council meeting to review the Arab Spring uprisings, will likely have a large focus on stopping Assad’s brutal crackdown on the opposition. The State Media in Damascus has confirmed the reports of the most recent deaths, however, they are blaming “armed terrorists” for the brutality. There are conflicting...

Human Rights – The void between the U.S. and Afghanistan has widened this weekend with the murder of 16 Afghan civilians by an American soldier. He opened fire in a village near his base in the south of the country, leaving nine children and three women among his victims. President Hamid Karzai has described the attack as “an assassination, an intentional killing of civilians” which he says “cannot be forgiven.” With tensions between the two countries already heightened following the burning of Qurans by U.S. forces and subsequent violence by protestors, this newest development has created an even more volatile...