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Apr 8 2010 9:17PM
Urgent Action - stop SA World Cup roundups of street children

From our friends at Casa Allianza Nicaragua, who led a team to the first ever Deloitte Street Children World Cup : PLEASE HELP: STREET KIDS ROUNDED UP BY POLICE IN SOUTHAFRICA I’m sure you will have read our recent reports about the...

Apr 8 2010 5:51PM
The Yemen job: a licence to commit extra-judicial executions

OK, it’s not a surprise that countries have “hit lists” (not music charts) and that their intelligence services bump people off, as the deceptively cosy phrase has it. But what to make of the US giving a special media briefing to...

Apr 8 2010 5:42PM
Free Hu Jia

Human Rights defender Hu Jia, handcuffed and shackled in legchains, was barely able to move when his mother visited him in a prisonhospital in Beijing in the end of this March. Doctors discovered a growth on Hu’s liver last month. Hu...

Apr 8 2010 1:28PM
Koohyar Goodarzi, A man for all seasons

He is young, energetic and very, very intelligent. He is from the city of Kerman where its winters are crisp and cold and summers dry and hot. Kerman has produced many brave men and women who have stood for the rights of people and...

Apr 8 2010 10:54AM
Free my so or take me to prison as well!

Bewildered mother of Mohemmed Davari, a simple and honest teacher who also cooperated with Etemad Meli and Saham New. These two publications are the official online papers of cleric Mehdi Karubi, the defeated Iranian presidential...