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Dec 31 2009 8:31PM
Arms for oil scandal: a programme on BBC World Service

In the 1990s in Angola there was an arms for oil scandal and it has led recently to several dozen convictions in France. Arming Angola was a programme first broadcast on Wednesday 6 January 2010.

Dec 31 2009 11:01AM
Yellow Ribbon, Wild Pigeon, Leaving Fear Behind

Today seesthe beginning of the second decade of the 21st century. We are gathering hereto express our continuing resistance against the tyrannical rule of the ChineseCommunist Party, our contempt for such a coward regime that dare not...

Dec 30 2009 1:37PM
Freedom Is Invaluable

The Iranian authorities shut down internet, monitored mobilephone text messages, but the Iranian people have been circulating their slogansand information on the banknotes. Iran’s regime has claimed to invalidate thebanknotes, but they...

Dec 29 2009 12:42AM
Mentally ill Briton executed in China

Akmal Shaikh was executed In the far north-west of China, in the early hours (GMT) of Tuesday morning, 29 December 2009. Two of his cousins from London had travelled to Urumqi to present a final petition for mercy. Despite all the...

Dec 28 2009 12:07PM
Recent blog entries on Human Rights!

Trawling through recent blog entries on this site I have found some that relate to human rights. See Almansori's blog on the criticism of Libya by Human Rights Watch, for the detention of 330 prisoners without legal basis. Shao Jiang...