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Dec 2 2010 7:30PM
Prime Minister urged to call for release of Liu Xiaobo on Human Rights Day

[2December 2010] Representatives of Chinese, Uighur & Tibetan Solidarity UK (CUTS UK, a coalition which includes Tibet Society) delivered a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron at Downing Street in the run-up to Human Rights Day on...

Dec 2 2010 3:31PM
Mr President, we dont have a warrant for your arrest: the UK goes soft on war crimes

On a busy news day yesterday (snow chaos, more WikiLeaks bombshells, mounting anticipation over the Fifa world cup decision: congrats Russia, by the way) the government slipped out a very important item on the procedures for issuing...

Dec 2 2010 10:58AM
China Human Rights Briefing   November 24-30, 2010

Highlights 12 Years Later, Democracy Leader Qin Yongmin Released from Prison: Prominent democracy activist and human rights defender Qin Yongmin (秦永敏) was released from prison this week following 12 years of incarceration for...

Dec 1 2010 2:29PM
WAGs: not a laughing matter in Iran

I must confess I never got to see the sensational ITV series Footballers’ Wives and therefore I missed out on the story of “ordinary women, struggling to keep their marriages intact while their husbands dazzle the crowds on the pitch”...

Dec 1 2010 10:24AM
Early this morning Shahla Jahed was hanged in Evin prison

Shahla Jahed , the temoporary wife of one of Iran's famous footballers, Naser Mohammedkhani, who was acxcused of murdering his first wife, Laleh Sahar Khizan some 9 years ago was executed by hanging in Evin prison today. The family of...