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Aug 12 2010 4:29PM
Bad television: the confession of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani

Over the years I’ve watched some very bad television. Haven’t we all? And it’s become a commonplace to denounce “reality TV” as the worst (“nothing very real about most of it”, say the critics) and well, some of this now-dominant TV...

Aug 12 2010 1:37PM
     Death's Waiting Room: launch 1pm today

Aug. 10, 2010 Reprieve announces the launch of Death’s Waiting Room, a life-size death row cell outside St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, at 1pm Thursday 12th August. This extraordinary exhibition replicates the real death row...

Aug 11 2010 4:50PM
Time for a Korea change, Gerrard?

I was delighted today, to see Steven Gerrard’s face emblazoned across the front page of the Guardian’s sports section , under the headline; “I’d boo as well”. I thought maybe it was some sort of pledge you just scribbled your name...

Aug 11 2010 12:26PM
China Human Rights Briefing Weekly  August 3-9, 2010

Highlights Liu Xianbin Case on Verge of Transfer to Courts: CHRD learned this week from lawyer Ma Xiaopeng (马 小鹏) that the “inciting subversion of state power” case against Sichuan Province democracy activist and human rights defender...

Aug 10 2010 2:46PM
The Khadr case: children go first

If you wanted to bring US justice into disrepute here’s an idea. Why not revisit the whole shabby business of “enemy combatants”? Go back to Guantánamo. Get the youngest inmate held there and put him on trial before a widely...