Yesterday the Times columnist Melanie Reid gushed that the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai was like the film Ocean's 11. (I think, by the way, she meant an exciting Hollywood crime caper … as opposed to a useless star-vehicle...

In the 1980s and in the muddle of Iran-Iraq war Ayatollah Knomeini ordered the total wipe out of political prisoners. As a result and in a matter of few months thousands of prisoners were tried in a few minutes court appearances inside...

Three women (& four men) in Malaysia were flogged earlier this month – meaning whipped with a cane – after a Shariah court found them guilty of extramarital sex. The news came in a press conference from the Malaysian Home Minister...

The Iranian delegation at the United Nations Comission for Human Rights declared last week, that Iran is a free country and the only democracy in the region. Mr Larijani said that no one has been tortured and assualted in the Iranian...

It seems as though the government of Burkina Faso has been the bearer of good news twice in the last 10 days or so. It’s not often we say that about any country’s government. But their decision to ratify the international cluster...