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Billy Briggs MICHAEL TIGHE was only 17 when he died in a hail of police bullets in a barn. But 25 years on his elderly parents are still trying to find out the full circumstances surrounding their son’s death and why he was targeted by...
Amnesty has been at the forefront of campaigning against violence against women over recent years and its through this work that some of the most harrowing tales of human rights abuses reach our desks. This week its been the issue of...
Some bad news today for freedom of expression Saudi Arabia has confirmed the arrest of Fouad al-Farhan , one of the countrys most respected bloggers. Like many countries where the offline media is tightly controlled, blogging has...
One of my brothers once described New Year as a triumph of hope over expectation. And so it is as we bid farewell to 2007 with bloodshed on the streets of Pakistan and welcome 2008 with horrific killings in Kenya. We hope for peace and...