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Jan 5 2010 3:46PM
How Leonard Cohen helped a journalist through torture

There was a fascinating interview on Channel 4 News last night, as Jon Snow spoke to journalist Maziar Bahari about his three months of interrogation and torture in Iran’s Evin prison. Bahari described the bizarre behaviour of his...

Jan 4 2010 4:38PM
The tsunami of arrests in Iran continues to rise

The Islamic regime at the end of its miserable 30 years has unleashed its reign of terror and intimidation in order to rule for yet a few more months or maybe longer. The wave of arrests and kidnapping civil rights activists has not...

Jan 4 2010 1:47PM
Yemen: new security alert, old human rights lessons

If the alleged would-be Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was indeed “trained” by al-Qai’da in Yemen it’s not exactly surprising that Yemen is now on everyone’s lips. But how to react? Closing embassies and talking about Yemen’s...

Jan 4 2010 10:52AM
Condemned Indian man.

A British lawyer has launched an international campaign to secure the immediate release of an Indian man sentenced to death in Pakistan. Jas Uppal launched the campaign to secure the release of Sarabjit Singh after reading about his...

Jan 3 2010 12:52PM
Safer or more exposed?

In the wake of the attempt to blow up an airliner as it landed in Detroit , the world's attention is once again on the airports, and, more specifically, airport security. Some perhaps faced the prospect of flying home from winter...