Billy Briggs

A jailed Tibetan environmentalist used the opening of his trial to accuse Chinese captors of beatings, sleep deprivation and other maltreatment, his wife told reporters. Karma Samdrup – a prominent businessman and award-winning...

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/egypt-must-investigate-bruta… Amnesty International is calling for an immediate, full and independent investigation into the brutal killing of a 28-year-old...

EIGHT people found guilty of negligence for their roles in Union Carbide gas disaster… http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8725140.stm

The Beeb is reporting that child asylum seekers will no longer be detained at Dungavel Detention Centre in Scotland but…. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8691081.stm Thanks for your time. www.billybriggs.co.uk

Please see below an interesting article in today's Guardian about a feminist protest group called the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/30/afghanistan-women-feminists…...

Is the Iraqi government complicit in torture and of covering up gross human rights abuses? Please read these disturbing new reports from Amnesty and Human Rights Watch. http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/iraq-urged-investigate...

ON 5th April 2010, WikiLeaks released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad including two Reuters journalists. Reuters obtained the video through...

Here's some good news and an inspirational story from Guatemala. Guatemalan Genocide Survivor Wins Roger Baldwin Award Jesus Tecu Osorio honored for his work seeking justice for victims of genocide and empowering indigenous Guatemalans...

Please read this and take action. Thanks. Billy Briggs. www.billybriggs.co.uk STUDENT ACTIVIST DETAINED WITHOUT CHARGE IRAN Milad Asadi Student leader Milad Asadi has been detained without charge in Evin Prison, Tehran, since 1...

FAR RIGHT hate crimes in Germany have doubled in ten years so growing concern as outlined by this article in Deutsche Welle. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5332048,00.html Thanks for your time. Billy Briggs. www.billybriggs.co.uk

Please read the following article I wrote about the Scottish Defence League which is an off-shoot of the English Defence League, a group formed to protest against radical Islam. Violence has erupted at both EDL and SDL protests amid...

Below is a statement from a woman currently being detained in Yarls Wood. This week a number of detainees protested about their conditions. Mojirola Daniels – Speaks Out Full summary of the treatment that I received at Yarl's wood...

This is from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, with regards to an upsurge in fighting in Somalia. Upsurge in fighting drives more Somalis from Mogadishu Clashes between government forces and the Al-Shabaab militia in the Somali capital...

SOVA, a non-governmental organisation that tracks racist violence in Russia, says at least 60 people were killed in Russia last year in hate crimes, and 306 were injured. Read the following articles for more info. http://in.reuters.com...

YESTERDAY was the first anniversary of the murders of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were gunned down by neo-Nazis in Moscow. Russia is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists...

If you've got a spare fiver then please donate to the following appeal by a Scottish charity which has been performing outstanding aid work in Haiti for some years now. I was in Port au Prince with them in 2006 and the living...

Daniel Eley, a young man from England who works with street children in Colombia, suffered an accident there on New Year's Day, 1st Jan, 2010, which has left him with serious spinal injuries. Dan is in hospital in Colombia and has had...

Here's an article in The Times today about the recent theft of the Arbeit Mach Frei sign from Auschwitz and a plot to blow up the Swedish Parliament. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6980065.ece Billy Briggs...

A British lawyer has launched an international campaign to secure the immediate release of an Indian man sentenced to death in Pakistan. Jas Uppal launched the campaign to secure the release of Sarabjit Singh after reading about his...

In the wake of this week's series of bombs in Iraq that left more one hundred people dead the refugee agency UNHCR has reiterated its deep concern about involuntary returns to Iraq amid the violence. UNHCR said it is shocked and...