South African President Jacob Zuma flew into London tonight (Tuesday) with media reports suggesting that he would press Gordon Brown to relax EU sanctions on the thugs in ZANU-PF who ran, and continue to run parts of, Zimbabwe. It is...

The late-breaking news last night that Ejup Ganic , a former Bosnian vice-president, had been arrested at Heathrow was, for my money, heartening. Why? Because we’re supposed to be living in a world that, after Srebrenica, after Kigali...

Headlines Jilin Government Website Details Targeting of Political Publications during “Anti-Pornography” Campaign Hubei Teachers’ Organizer Released from RTL, Compensated after 3 Months of Detention Hunger Strike by Death Row Inmates...

We have a new campaign briefing out today, urging the authorities in Sudan to abolish the practice of flogging, which is normally used against women. Women in Sudan face a daily risk of being arbitrarily arrested in public or private...

The UK government’s Control Orders regime is being discussed by MPs today, in the annual review/rubber-stamping of this “lamentable system”, as Andy Worthington describes it in his excellent and detailed blog on the subject. Today’s...