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May 13 2014 5:49PM
30 years of broken promises: it's time to stop torture

Join our live Q&A and ask our experts your questions Electric shocks to the genitals. Cigarette burns. Being punched and beaten. Deprived of food and water. Your family threatened with the same if you don’t confess. Despite a global...

May 13 2014 7:55AM
Stop Torture Campaign: Moses's Story

Do you remember being 16 and finishing your secondary school exams? Do you remember waiting for your results, looking to the future, eagerly wondering what life would hold for you? What if the answer was torture, imprisonment and a...

May 12 2014 10:25PM
1989 Participant's Profile: Wang Weiping (王卫萍)

Wang Weiping (王卫萍), Doctor of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Beijing People's Hospital; graduate of the Beijing Medical University. On the night of June 3, 1989, Wang was shot in the neck while trying to attend to the...

May 12 2014 10:18PM
Today in 1989: Hunger Strike in Tiananmen

Thousands of students march to the Tiananmen wich hundreds sworn to go to hunger strike for democracy.

May 12 2014 5:03PM
We must stop Europe’s seas becoming a graveyard

The date: October 2013. The place: off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa. The death toll: 364 people. The date: January 2014 . The place: off the coast of the Greek island of Farmakonisi. The death toll: 11 people, including...