Politics & Government

‘Mississippi Burning’ killer and former Ku Klux Klan leader dies in prison

Edgar Ray Killen, convicted for the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in US, dies aged 92Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted for the 1964 “Mississippi Burning” killings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at the age of 92.Killen was serving three...

USCIRF Praises US Sanctions Against Burmese General

In a Dec. 21 press release, the U.S. Treasury Department announced the first sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.  this week, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a press release focusing particularly on sanctions imposed on a Burmese army...