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Foreign Policy (blog)
May 27, 2016
Both Sklar, who ran the now-defunct nonprofit the World Organization for Human Rights USA, and Liao say that Shi also received $3.2 million from Yahoo. According to Liao and Sklar, the settlement also included a roughly $17 million fund, called the Yahoo Human Rights Fund (YHRF), which allegedlyÃâà...
New York Times
May 27, 2011
Mr. Chai was detained during a trip to Thailand in 2006 and questioned about postings he made on the Internet from the United States. Mr. Chai was released but has been warned that he will be arrested if he returns to Thailand, according to the World Organization for Human Rights USA in Washington,Ãâà...
CNN International
January 10, 2009
Also Friday, the World Organization for Human Rights USA filed a civil class action suit against Taylor on behalf of a group of people who are said to have been subjected to torture and other human rights abuses by Taylor or his subordinates, according to the organization. The suit seeks declaratory reliefÃâà...
TIME
October 3, 2008
But Morton Sklar, executive director of world organization for Human Rights USA, a group representing one of the witnesses, said the Bybee Memo had been an attempt to bypass international torture-treaty standards in the context of the war on terrorism and that Yoo's interpretation of the law "was way outÃâà...
Ars Technica
November 8, 2007
China demanded that Yahoo hand over the IP information and e-mail records of both parties as part of Chinese law, and Yahoo complied in both cases. After being sued by the World Organization for Human Rights USA, Yahoo's actions came to the attention of the US government, which decided to find outÃâà...
ABC News
March 10, 2007
When asked about the State Department report's reference to Kazakhstan's censorship of Sasha Baron Cohen's work, Morton Sklar, executive director of the World Organization for Human Rights USA, said, "It's an issue of free speech. No matter what the instance is, it comes down to free speech." MortonÃâà...
