According to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: Kurdish dissidents are increasingly in danger of execution due to unfair trials. In recent months at least 19 Kurdish prisoners were sentenced to death. The judiciary system...

China Human Rights Briefing January 20, 2010 Headlines Xinjiang Residents Able to Receive Long-Distance Calls for First Time in Six Months Gansu Province to Build a Team of 650 “Internet Commentators” Shaanxi Activist’s “Legal Worker”...

SOVA, a non-governmental organisation that tracks racist violence in Russia, says at least 60 people were killed in Russia last year in hate crimes, and 306 were injured. Read the following articles for more info. http://in.reuters.com...

What were you doing exactly one year ago? Can’t remember? Well, chances are that at some time during 20 January 2009 you glanced at the TV news about Barack Obama being inaugurated as 44th president of the USA. (You didn’t! Well, OK...

On Belfast and Beyond we're fans of veteran Northern Ireland journalist Brian (Barney) Rowan. Journalistically speaking, he knows where the bodies are buried and literally speaking, he knows many of the the combatants – on all sides -...