31.   An independent media watchdog group has condemned plans for tough new laws to stop journalists reporting on secret national security matters, such as spy operations.

32.   An international human rights group has condemned the approaching trial of two Turkish human rights officials.

33.   An international human rights group has condemned the beheading in Saudi Arabia of a man described as a political dissident following a secret trial.

34.   An international human rights group Saturday condemned an alleged attack on an United Nations human rights worker by Cambodian police.

35.   An Egyptian rights group on Monday condemned the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of an editor-legislator who is facing charges of libel.

36.   An international human rights group condemned Indonesian soldiers on Wednesday for shooting religious rioters to death on riot-torn Ambon island.

37.   Arab foreign ministers were seeking a compromise Thursday to resolve a heated dispute over whether they should as a group formally condemn U.S.-British airstrikes on Iraq.

38.   At least two French-based Muslim groups condemned the attack.

39.   Both Ms. Bhutto and Kashmiri separatist groups have condemned the kidnappings and denied any knowledge of Al-Faran.

40.   But international human rights groups have condemned the camps as breeding grounds for hunger, disease and more violence.