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I’ve always been bookish, but last Saturday, I became one: I was a human book at Aye Write!, The Mitchell Library’s amazing book festival. I joined the Human Library for the day. It works like this: readers go up to the lending desk...
Please read my latest report for Scotland On Sunday about a controversial deal a Scottish public body signed with the government of Bahrain. Human rights groups have expressed concern over the contract... http://www.scotsman.com/news...
What would you ask a man who has spent the most part of three decades in solitary confinement? How he got through the days, years, decades alone in a tiny cell? How he claimed justice? What he’s doing now? Well, tomorrow’s your chance...
- Into the ether
- By Anna
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On 19 th March a landmark legal case began in Guatemala, the first national trial against a former head of state for the crime of genocide. José Efrain Ríos Montt, the former head of state in Guatemala between 1982 and 1983, and...
Two teenage boys have been detained without charge under the Public Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu and Kashmir. A third boy detained without charge at the same time has been released for health reasons but may be returned to custody within...