Even before 2009, the rich in the US increased their wealth while most Americans lost. (Since 2009, this process has gone even further.)

Neelie Kroes Pushing Telcos' Agenda to End Net Neutrality.

A video made inside an Angolan prison shows guards kicking and beating prisoners who were sitting on the ground, perhaps as a nonviolent protest.

Prisoners in California are protesting against long-term solitary confinement which is effectively equivalent to torture.

GCHQ snoops on nearly all of Europe's Internet traffic.

The Indonesian regime forced indigenous leaders in West Papua to sign away land to a large agribusiness, threatening to label them as "separatists" and punish them otherwise.

I don't know whether they are separatists, but they have every right to be. The inhabitants of West Papua have no cultural or historical relationship with Indonesia, which took over the region by force. Subsequently it sent large numbers of Javanese to colonize the area.