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Headlines Beijing Dissidents Cha Jianguo and Gao Hongming Subjected to Soft Detention Six Injured in Clash between Developer and Landholders in Guangxi Draft of New Regulations Regarding Forced Evictions Released Revision of...
You’ll have noticed that Iran is once again in the headlines today, with US-Iran tensions reportedly ‘raised’ again after the US sold anti-missile systems to its middle-eastern allies. It’s also the anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini’s...
Desmond Tutu, Nobel peace prize winner and former archbishop of Capetown, is to make an urgent plea to Libya on Monday . He will ask the Libyan government to clarify what has happened to a prominent dissident, Jaballa Matar. His family...
A BAE middleman has been arrested and held , charged with conspiring to make corrupt payments to promote the sale of fighter planes to Austria, Czech Republic and Hungary. The Attorney General, Lady Scotland, has not yet allowed the...
As the glare of the media spotlight fades from Haiti, the reconstruction and relief effort is only just beginning – and there’s where we need to ensure that women and girls’ rights is not forgotten. In 2008 Amnesty produced a report...