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Sep 14 2009 12:31PM
A rape victim in Iran speaks out!

Another case of rape in prison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhKs4lZBkyE Reza Alamehzadeh is an Iranian film maker and human rights campaigner who lives in Holland. Recently, he has started to document the cases of rape and torture...

Sep 12 2009 1:43PM
Gay hate, then and now

Good to read about Gordon Brown's apology for the indescribably brutal way in which computer pioneer Alan Turing was treated by the government and the courts in Britain fifty plus year ago. Turing, whose work was essential to the...

Sep 11 2009 11:13PM
Another personality is detained

Morteza Alviri was detained a few days ago. You can watch his last interview on the following link. http://www.payvand.com/news/09/sep/1106.html

Sep 11 2009 11:13PM
Another personality is detained

Morteza Alviri was detained a few days ago. You can watch his last interview on the following link. http://www.payvand.com/news/09/sep/1106.html

Sep 10 2009 9:12AM
Here be dragons: off the map and into the deranged world of Japans capital punishment system

To kick off here are a couple of quotes: “While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus. It was a very beautiful place and it was really green.” “The wisdom never dies. On that kind of...