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Sep 16 2009 1:42PM
Shooting the messenger (and everyone else): investigating war crimes in Gaza

The finding from the UN investigator Judge Richard Goldstone that both the Israeli Defense Forces and Palestinian armed groups committed war crimes in Gaza at the beginning of the year has met with two predictable responses. Response...

Sep 14 2009 3:03PM
EU restrictions remain for Zimbabwe until human rights improve

The gloves are off and the war of words is definitely back on by Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF officials toward the EU following the weekend’s visit to the country by European officials and their refusal to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe...

Sep 14 2009 12:31PM
A rape victim in Iran speaks out!

Another case of rape in prison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhKs4lZBkyE Reza Alamehzadeh is an Iranian film maker and human rights campaigner who lives in Holland. Recently, he has started to document the cases of rape and torture...

Sep 12 2009 1:43PM
Gay hate, then and now

Good to read about Gordon Brown's apology for the indescribably brutal way in which computer pioneer Alan Turing was treated by the government and the courts in Britain fifty plus year ago. Turing, whose work was essential to the...

Sep 11 2009 11:13PM
Another personality is detained

Morteza Alviri was detained a few days ago. You can watch his last interview on the following link. http://www.payvand.com/news/09/sep/1106.html