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Aug 22 2008 10:24PM
Tasers: shocks and secrets

As the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) deliver their first Taser shock , it's been announced that an application has been made for a judicial review into the decision-making process which led to the deployment of the...

Aug 22 2008 2:20PM
What chance a fair trial for Binyam?

Amid the scandalous amount of coverage of stories such as the Italian snails taking up residence at Profumo’s old haunt of Cliveden there seemed to be little space on the TV news yesterday evening for the High Court’s ruling on the...

Aug 22 2008 11:42AM
Sandard Operating Procedure Mark 2

Standard Operating Procedure William Crawley wrote a very comprehensive analysis of Standard Operating Procedure on his blog Will and Testament , and many of these themes were discussed on last Sunday’s Sunday Sequence . But I will add...

Aug 21 2008 5:02PM
news from north of the border

It’s on days like this when us London-based folk take our hats off to our colleagues north of the border: if ever there were a group of people who knew how to multi-task, it’s Amnesty’s Scotland office. While maintaining Amnesty’s high...

Aug 20 2008 9:53PM
Standard Operating Procedure

My colleague Fionna is far to modest to blog it herself, but she was a guest on BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday Sequence programme a couple of days ago to discuss new film, Standard Operating Procedure, which deals with the torture meted out...