Incredibly, it’s now eight years since the first shackled and orange-jump-suited prisoners were taken to the notorious prison camp at Guantánamo. Eight years. This is a long time if you’ve been found guilty of a crime and sent to...

Daniel Eley, a young man from England who works with street children in Colombia, suffered an accident there on New Year's Day, 1st Jan, 2010, which has left him with serious spinal injuries. Dan is in hospital in Colombia and has had...

A group of Iranian women who call themselves the Mourning Mothers and who comprise of mothers who have lost their children in the post-presidential unrests, gather every Saturday at Park Laleh in central Tehran to commomerate their...

Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen was sentenced to 6 yearsin prison for making documentary Leaving Fear Behind which recorded views fromordinary Tibetans of the Beijing Olympics. Take Action on Dhondup Wangchen: Leaving Fear Behind...

English PEN has today published an update on its campaign, Freedom to Write in the Americas . They are concerned for the safety of journalists in countries including Mexico and Cuba. Roy Greenslade in his blog reports briefly on the...