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Nov 23 2010 4:48PM
CHINAS NATIONAL AUTONOMY LAW AND TIBET: A Paradox between Autonomy and Unity By DR. LOBSANG SANGAY

TheChinese Constitution and particularly the Regional National Autonomy Law of 1984 (RNAL) is purported to guarantee autonomy for minorities. However, the law is challenged in its interpretation and implementation primarily due to the...

Nov 23 2010 12:33PM
UK carries on sending people back to Iraq, despite the dangers

The UK government has announced that it will continue removing refused asylum seekers to Baghdad, despite the European Court of Human Rights “effectively calling for a freeze on the practice”, as the BBC puts it . You may have heard...

Nov 22 2010 11:51PM
Subversion Charge against Little-Known Activist Indicates Heightened Crackdown on Dissent in China

(Chinese Human RightsDefenders, November 22, 2010) CHRD learned last weekthat Li Tie (李铁), a Wuhan City, HubeiProvince-based democracyactivist and online freelance writer, has beenarrested on charges of“subversion of state power.” The...

Nov 22 2010 4:51PM
English Defence League.

Here's a link to an article I wrote for Al Jazeera about the far right English Defence League. The pictures were taken by my colleague, Angela Catlin, one of Britain's best photographers. http://english.aljazeera.net/photo_galleries...

Nov 22 2010 11:52AM
Another strange week in the life of Guantánamo

It’s been a strange few days on Guantánamo (even for seasoned Guantánamo watchers like me, and I’ve been bashing out Amnesty press releases on this miserable place since the first boiler-suited inmates were dumped there in 2002). First...