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Jan 17 2011 12:37PM
The blank generation: what next in Tunisia

A momentous weekend, but what next in Tunisia? A weekend tweet from Channel Four News’ Jonathan Rugman ( @jrug ) from Tunis captured the sense of uncertainty very nicely. “Poster of Ben Ali being taken down to reveal a blank – who will...

Jan 15 2011 9:00AM
Protest Li Keqiang

伦敦华维藏人权活动人士2011年月11日到12日连续2天联合抗议李克强访英和反抗中共暴政。 华维藏同时抗议中共对藏维等地占领、对藏维等民族的镇压和人权迫害。抗议李克强在火灾和矿难中玩忽职守,抗议他造成毒奶粉扩散和掩盖输血感染艾滋病的人道危机,抗议他直接参与镇压人权捍卫者和对法轮功学员的迫害。 李克强的直接责任已导致上千人死亡,数万人被非法监禁, 他的罪责不仅没有被清查和追究, 反而在邓小平、江泽民和胡锦涛主政期间一路高升。中共体制最高产维护专制,镇压公民的刽子手...

Jan 14 2011 5:26PM
UN-yielding aggression

The unrest across Ivory Coast may no longer dominate news headlines across the UK – in fact Tunisia’s unrest appears to be the ‘foreign news story of the day’ – but the Ivorian crisis is far from over. Just a few days ago, Amnesty...

Jan 13 2011 11:58AM
Nasrin Sotoudeh yet another woman in Iran jailed for defending peoples rights

My colleague Ann was on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour this morning, talking about Nasrin Sotoudeh , a human rights lawyer in Iran who was sentenced this week to eleven years in jail. Her conviction was for "acting against the national...

Jan 12 2011 1:15PM
Two cheers for Illinois

Brief one today - I'm in a big all-day media meeting with press officers from around the world (Alastair Campbell eat your heart out). So, my mini-reflection for the day is … it's not all gloom and doom coming out of the USA. In the...