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Jul 22 2011 3:11PM
Don’t look now? Video of hangings in Iran

I think there are some things Id almost rather not see. Witnessing an act of cruelty is itself mentally painful. For instance my girlfriend will positively not look at (or even hear accounts of) anything to do with animal cruelty, and...

Jul 21 2011 6:08PM
The imprisonment of Actresses is Iran; new developements in suppressing women

The Feminist School A month ago Marzieh Vafamenhr, who is an actress as well producer of documentaries was detained and sent to the notorious Gharechak-Varanmin prison which is known as not a prison but a torture chamber without the...

Jul 21 2011 2:07PM
We are 1,000 today!

Yes, this is the 1,000th post on this humble PRESS RELEASE ME, LET ME GO blog. That’s around four years’ worth of blogging, Monday-Friday, on human rights issues in the news (and sometimes things that are not in the news but arguably...

Jul 20 2011 1:18PM
Children in Somalia face human rights crisis

My mum phoned me this morning, after spotting me doing an interview on the BBC News Channel. “You looked very smart but very serious”, she said. I argued that I didn’t have much choice: when you’re talking about children facing a...

Jul 20 2011 8:19AM
China Human Rights Briefing July 13-19, 2011

Highlights Updates on Detentions and Disappearances Related to the “Jasmine Revolution” Crackdown: CHRD has learned the case against Wang Lihong ( 王荔蕻) , the Beijing-based activist charged with “gathering a crowd to disrupt traffic...