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Oct 14 2014 10:55PM
Iran: Juvenile Offender Facing Execution

In Iran a young man is facing execution, even though he was a child at the time of his alleged crimes. This is a shocking possibility, and completely contrary to international law. Saman Naseem is now just 21 years old, but it has been...

Oct 10 2014 5:49PM
Our only option was to flee Libya by sea: a refugee's story

Syrian doctor Hasan Wahid survived a shipwreck in the Mediterranean on 11 October 2013 - the second of two shipwrecks near Lampedusa where over 500 people drowned. He told us his family's story of the impossible choices – and terrible...

Oct 10 2014 3:31PM
Meet 'citizen four' and learn why we should fear mass surveillance

In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America. She started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as ‘citizen four’...

Oct 7 2014 5:58PM
10 presents for Putin

Happy Birthday, Mister President! Vladimir Putin, 62 years old today, will be celebrating his birthday in Siberia , apparently. I have some ideas for presents, should any relatives or friends of the President be searching for last...

Oct 5 2014 10:05AM
London: Hunger Strike & Sit-in for Hong Kong Democracy

三千人在倫敦中国使馆前: 聲援香港争民主3K ppl protest outside #China embassy in London to support #HK Democracy http://t.co/y96Gz5Usr2 两名香港学生在倫敦中國大使館門前, 已經絕食二十小時。绝食宣言: 沒有公民提名,我們抗命! # UmbrellaRevolution http://www. inmediahk.net/node/1026727...