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May 20 2010 12:00PM
Thank you for shaming Shell

It’s been quite a week. We’ve been amazed by you – our supporters, dismayed by the Financial Times and of course outraged by Shell. Thanks to your generosity and commitment to the people of the Niger Delta, we were able to realise our...

May 20 2010 7:57AM
Behareh Hedayat a student & women's rights activist sentenced to 9 years imprisonment

June 12 is on the horizon and the Iranian regime whose president stole people's votes in an election-coup last year on this date is creating an atmosphere of terror and intimidation by executing prisoners, detaining their lawyers and...

May 19 2010 7:36PM
UK government: a civil partnership?

Lots of discussion today of UK civil liberties, following Nick Clegg’s speech, Theresa May on the Today Programme and of course the decision by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) yesterday not to deport two Pakistani...

May 19 2010 10:57AM
detention of children, UK, asylum seekers

The Beeb is reporting that child asylum seekers will no longer be detained at Dungavel Detention Centre in Scotland but…. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8691081.stm Thanks for your time. www.billybriggs.co.uk

May 19 2010 1:07AM
Going... Going... Gone.

“A commission is to be set up to review the Human RightsAct, as two terror suspects are allowed to stay in the UK ” reads the misleadingheadline on the BBC’s homepage. Two suspected al-Qaeda terrorists appealed againstextradition to...