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Aug 24 2009 12:27AM
The Yes Men Fix The World: film review

I reviewed this new comedy / politics documentary film for the BBC's Sunday Sequence programme, along with actor and writer Dan Gordon (you can listen again, here , 22mins 30secs in). I'd never heard of the Yes Men before now –...

Aug 22 2009 5:05PM
Rape in the Iranian prisons

Since the day Mehdi Karubi, the defeated presidential candidate wrote a letter to Hashemi Rafsanji, informing him of recent the cases of rapes in prisons of men & women, the Iranian regime has gone on the counter-attacl claiming that...

Aug 21 2009 4:39PM
Hate & Pride in Manchester

Earlier this week Human Rights Watch reported that hundreds of gay men have been murdered in Iraq since 2004, and that the attacks appear to be organised. Across Eastern Europe gay people are increasingly out and proud but are facing...

Aug 21 2009 12:00PM
Mapping hell stations

After the success of our webchat with Shell , and the revealing answers we were given, it is time for the next stage of our campaign to Make Shell Come Clean Join us as we target Shell on Google Maps, turning Shell stations into ‘hell...

Aug 20 2009 1:41PM
Phew, that was a close shave; or why beards are a human right

Amnesty’s new report on how Tunisia is rounding up, torturing and imprisoning alleged Islamic terrorists is the sort of thing that any Amnesty blog reader will have heard before. Right, big surprise, you may think. I kind of thought...