Jon Snow interviewed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Channel 4 News. Snow challenged the Iranian leader in part of the interview with the statements of a defector from the Basij militia . The defector says that he witnessed killings and tried...

See the blog entry on on Akmal Shaikh , the Briton who faces execution in China, by Steve B from the Amnesty media team. The entry includes links to an interview with his brother and to the website of Reprieve. Clive Stafford Smith of...

On 16 December the United Nations, the Nepalese Government and Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) signed a plan which hopes to release 3,000 child soldiers who served in the Maoist army during the country’s decade-long...

Today is the third day of mourning for the death of the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri. His family were not able to hold any public ceremonies for him due to the intervention by the Basiji militias and the security services who occupied the...

Today is the third day of mourning for the death of the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri. His family were not able to hold any public ceremonies for him due to the intervention by the Basiji militias and the security services who occupied the...