A jailed Tibetan environmentalist used the opening of his trial to accuse Chinese captors of beatings, sleep deprivation and other maltreatment, his wife told reporters. Karma Samdrup – a prominent businessman and award-winning...

No longer run by the mad dog of Tripoli (in Ronald Reagan’s infamous phrase ) but by a “reformed” Muammar Gaddafi, an elder statesman of the Middle East, Libya has recently been rebranding itself. To put it mildly, Libya used to have...

First, a confession – I’m very late with this blog and many of you may already have watched the film concerned (it aired on BBC Newsnight last Thursday). “ No place like home ” is a powerful documentary that looks at the reality of...

For every entry of the list: first line is the name, Secondline is the address. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima Panchen Lama disappeared. Please call on the PLA, CCP and PRC top leaders to allow access to Panchen Lama by UN representative. 1...

As I’m sure you noticed, the media coverage of the recent execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner in Utah, USA was unusually extensive. A casual observer might have thought “Right. This must be a big thing”, but in actual fact it was just the...