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Jul 31 2010 12:56PM
Keep campaigning for Cameroonian journalist

FURTHER UPDATE – Monday night Charles was NOT deported today and has been reprieved for the moment, but things could get worse at any time. The NUJ have reported on the latest developments. UPDATE: Channel 4 jumped the gun – Charles...

Jul 31 2010 12:13PM
Families of hunger strike political prisoners reach out to the world

The wife of one of the political prisoners wrote in an email "why the world has forgotten us?" A number of political prisoners have gone on hunger strike to protest against the worsening conditions at ward 350 of the notorious Evin...

Jul 31 2010 11:57AM
Hostage taking an old habit which dies hard

Iran has become a country of hostage taking and terror. American kids, hicking the mountains are taken hostage; French lecturer innocent of any crime is taken hostage; Iranian academics who travel to the country to see their families...

Jul 31 2010 11:21AM
AI: China convicts Uighur web managers on state security charges

Amnesty International has condemned the closed trial and conviction ofthree Uighur website managers on state security charges. Dilshat Perhat, web manager and owner of the Diyarim website wassentenced to five years by an Urumqi court...

Jul 31 2010 11:16AM
A Public Letter by Chinese Citizens Urging the Release of Uyghur Journalist Hailaite Niyazi

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders-July 30, 2010) Agroup of Chinese lawyers and scholars have made public an open letter expressing concern about the“criminalization of speech” in the case ofUyghur journalist Hailaite Niyazi, who was...