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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...

Aug 29 2009 10:50AM
Romanian evictions:  a political matter not a private one...

The recent evictions of Romanians from a house in South Belfast should be considered a political matter concerning civil and socio-economic rights, rather than as a purely private dispute between individuals. Commenting on the latest...

Aug 28 2009 9:07PM
For unions, Zimbabwe is still not (quite) free

I'm just returning from a three day TUC delegation to Zimbabwe where we found a mixture of optimism and caution. Ben, the editor of The Worker, paper of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, told us he was recently arrested when he...