Open any newspaper on any day and you will almost certainly read an article thats criticising the government in one way or another. Whether it be the governments stance on immigration, on the economy or even on the human rights of...

Please read my feature on victims of torture living in the UK which was published by The Herald on Saturday 26th June to chime with the UN's International Torture Day. http://www.heraldscotland.com/life-style/real-lives/the-plight-of...

(ChineseHuman Rights Defenders- June 29, 2010)Little more than a year after he was released following a decade inprison,convicted of “subversion of state power” in 1999, Sichuan democracyactivistLiu Xianbin (刘贤斌)hasonce again been...

Systematic failings from the police over investigating a series of rapes and sexual offences perpetrated by a sexual predator in a car – the Kirk Reid case has an unpleasantly familiar ring. Yes – it’s like the John Worboys case , the...

(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...