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Feb 23 2010 10:37AM
BBC Persian has received a new film on the attack at the university dormitory on June 14, 2009 Iran

فیلم منتشر نشده ای از حمله به کوی دانشگاه http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2010/02/100222_iran_l19_kooy_tehran_u… The film is sel-explanatory. Needless to say that according to reports 5 students were killed and more...

Feb 23 2010 8:13AM
China Human Rights Briefing  20-22 February 2010

Headlines Artists March on Chang’an Avenue to Protest against Forced Eviction Site Devoted to Academic Exchange Blocked Jiangsu Woman Convicted in First “Anti- Forced Eviction” Murder Case Chongqing Petitioner-Turned-Activist Zhong...

Feb 22 2010 4:29PM
Freedom to blog (and to hack?) #aitech

With one media report around today entitled “ Google will pave the way to freedom in China, says Dalai Lama ” and a front page splash in the FT saying “US analysts believe they have identified the Chinese author of the critical...

Feb 21 2010 2:14PM
Daniel Ellsberg, Vietnam War whistle blower

The Most Dangerous Man in America is a film I watched recently on a BBC digital channel, BBC 4. You can still catch it for a little while on the internet. Daniel Ellsberg had access to top secret documents about the Vietnam War and the...

Feb 21 2010 2:09PM
Paul Robeson, singer and activist

On Sunday 21 February 2010 I’m Still the Same Paul was on BBC Radio 3. Music and human rights come together in the person of Paul Robeson, played by Lenny Henry. Robeson was one of the foremost black performers in the world and also...