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Oct 28 2009 4:59PM
Should Gary Glitter be executed ?

… is the hypothetical question posed by a Channel 4 drama coming out in November. I say posed , but what we’re getting, apparently, is a 90-minute feature-length drama – The Execution of Gary Glitter – “set in an imaginary Britain in...

Oct 27 2009 12:57PM
Water wars?

Back in 2006 I took a day out from the Amnesty office to “job-swap” at the news desk of The Independent at their (then) office at Canary Wharf in east London. All very interesting. For one thing: what a studious atmosphere! More like a...

Oct 27 2009 9:59AM
Death Penalty:  Continuous Massacres

Chinese Communist regime has executed three Tibetans,Lobsang Gyaltsen, Loyak, and Penkyi for their alleged involvement in the March2008 protests. The executions took place in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, on October20th, 2009. There are...

Oct 27 2009 8:50AM
A letter from Behnood, the juvenile who was executed last month

Please read the letter. think and take action to stop child killings in Iran. http://rowzane.com/0000-2009/e-m10/Borochur.pdf

Oct 26 2009 9:23PM
Radovan Karadzic is on trial

Radovan Karadzic is on trial . He claims that he needs more time to prepare his defence. Martin Bell comments on the case and points out that the UN shares some of the guilt for failing to prevent atrocities.