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Sep 2 2009 4:07PM
Sri Lanka - where journalism can get you 20 years

Earlier today Amnesty supporters attended a vigil in London’s Parliament Square (where hundreds of Tamils were protesting earlier this year) to draw attention to the case of Tissa , a Tamil journalist who was jailed for twenty years in...

Sep 1 2009 1:15PM
Numerology, or 1,000 reasons to oppose the death penalty

Let’s start with a numbers question. How many people is a thousand people? Not as easy as it sounds. Ever been at an event and someone asked you to say how many were there? You inevitably go: “Oh, about 200. No wait, maybe 300. No...

Sep 1 2009 12:17PM
Another case of violent rape and murder.

A horror film in words! Rouhi Shafii Some news are easy to believe and some need more time for the reader to digest. The number of the disappeared in the post-election Iran is not known. Many families are still searching for the loved...

Sep 1 2009 11:36AM
Crimes against humanity

For years, Iranian inside and outside the country have been trying to collect enough evidence to present to the International Court of Human rights so that the Court considers the crimes committed by the Iranian regime as crimes...

Aug 29 2009 12:00PM
Vanished by the state

What are you doing this evening? Are you planning to see family or friends? Imagine that they don’t show up. At first you think nothing of it. They must be delayed, or maybe their phone is out of battery. But as the hours tick by, you...