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Oct 28 2010 9:37PM
Survival International suffers cyber-attack

Survival International came under cyber-attack from thousands of computers yesterday evening, so that for now this temporary page replaces their usual website. A week earlier Survival International had drawn attention to a shocking...

Oct 28 2010 1:59PM
200,000 forced from their homes for a shopping mall and cinema

Its hard to imagine being woken up in the middle of the night by bulldozers which are literally tearing down your house while youre still in it. But this is a reality for nearly 200,000 people living in Nigerias town of Port Harcourt...

Oct 28 2010 12:00PM
Please halt all forced evictions in Port Harcourt

This is an open letter to the Governor of Rivers State, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Your Excellency Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi – Governor of Rivers State, I am writing to express my concern at the forced eviction of thousands of people from...

Oct 27 2010 5:39PM
Tariq Aziz: the death penalty is not a popularity contest

News that Tariq Aziz is to face hanging for crimes committed as deputy prime minister of Iraq isn’t going to lead to an international outcry of the kind we sometimes see with the death penalty. This, to use the Daily Express’ phrase...

Oct 27 2010 8:24AM
China Human Rights Briefing Weekly  October 19-25, 2010

Highlights Harassment of Activists Continues: CHRD continued to collect reports this week of activists, dissidents, and supporters of Liu Xiaobo who have been harassed, placed under police surveillance, or had their movements...