(ChineseHuman Rights Defenders- June 28, 2010) OnJune 29, the Liaoning Provincial High People’s Court (Liaoning HPC)willconvene an open court session to hear the appeal of Xia Junfeng (夏俊峰),a street vendor inShenyang City who was...

If in Britain we’d recently had major unrest with hundreds – possibly thousands – of people killed in apparently ethnically-motivated bloodletting, I don’t think we’d have conducted a polite referendum on the constitution within a...

Dear Friends, Charles Antangana, a journalist and asylum seeker who was a judge in the Refugee Week Scotland Media Awards, has been detained by the Home Office pending deportation to Cameroon on Tuesday (tomorrow). Charles has lived in...

Zeynab Jalalian faces Danger of Execution! Sakineh Mohammedi Ashtiani in danger of being stoned to death! 1- Iran’s Supreme Court approved the death sentence by execution of Zeynab Jalalian in November 2009. The sentence has been...

Rose George is not afraid to write about toilets, or the lack of them. Her Guardian article points out the importance of sanitation for preventing disease and says that many countries are falling short. She says that the sanitation...