The dramatic wave of demonstrations inside Burma in 1988 (popularly known as the 8888 Uprising) took place amidst a virtual media vacuum. The dearth of real-time historical documentation of events clearly attests to this fact. The stories of those...
Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, a Saudi-born Irish passport holder, and one of the richest men in the world, is no stranger to the UK libel courts. Since 2002, banker bin Mahfouz has used his considerable financial clout to garner apologies and damages...
Important efforts have been made in recent years to hold US corporations doing business abroad accountable under US law for aiding and abetting acts of torture and other major human rights abuses. In 1997, a groundbreaking case successfully...
On Monday, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika announced the arrest of ten people suspected of involvement in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. Those held include officials from the Russian Interior Ministry and the Federal Security Service (FSB)....
Ten people have been arrested in connection with the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. This was announced at a news conference given on August 27 by the General Prosecutor, Yuri Chaika. It was confirmed by the special investigator from the...
The former French colony of the Republic of Congo in West Africa is one of the world’s poorest countries, with 70 per cent of the population living on less that $1 a day. Although Congo has produced oil for more than three decades, its four million...
Environmental campaigners have responded angrily to what they have dubbed a ‘smear campaign’. A report in yesterday’s Evening Standard claimed that participants in the ‘Camp for Climate Action’ were planning to create security alerts at Heathrow...
Over the last year, the number of death sentences passed in Iran has increased dramatically. This trend affects the country’s minorities disproportionately, as they are targeted by the police, and often more serious charges are brought against them...
In the High Court yesterday BAA, the owner of Heathrow airport, was granted an injunction banning protestors from the airport and some BAA buildings in its vicinity during the month of August. During this time, 14-21 August, the Camp for Climate...
Leo O’Connor and David Keogh were jailed in May for breaching the Official Secrets Act. David Keogh, a civil servant, had leaked a memo of a conversation between George Bush and Tony Blair, which he gave to Leo O’Connor, a parliamentary researcher....