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Jul 29 2010 6:03PM
Control Orders - telling the government why we don't want them

The UK’s control order regime, which Amnesty has opposed since its inception, took another kicking in the courts yesterday. The Court of Appeal rejected a Government challenge to a landmark High Court ruling allowing compensation...

Jul 29 2010 11:21AM
Bedouins evicted in the Negev Desert.

I witnessed for myself a Bedouin village being demolished by Israeli police in the Negev Desert in December 2009. Here's a new article by the BBC about 300 people being made homeless this week in similar circumstances. There's a video...

Jul 28 2010 2:17PM
Cameroon, journalist, Help.

Please read and help. Thanks, Charles Atangana is a journalist and asylum seeker from Cameroon who arrived in the UK in May 2004. A professional journalist and an active member of the Cameroon Journalists Trade Union (CJTU/SNJC)...

Jul 28 2010 10:51AM
China Human Rights Briefing Weekly  July 20-26, 2010

Highlights Uyghur Journalist Hailaite Niyazi Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison: On July 23, a court in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region sentenced journalist Hailaite Niyazi to 15 years in prison for endangering state security...

Jul 28 2010 10:26AM
Vedanta: listen to the locals

My family’s lived in Leamington Spa (in Warwickshire) for at least five or six generations, maybe more. My forebears built some of the streets there and, glamorously, were involved in building the sewers. I don’t live there any more...