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Crime and Justice

14 Nov 2012

Abu Qatada, torture, law and media solipsism

Yesterday (13 November 2012), risking the considerable wrath of his readership, the conservative commentator Peter Oborne made a brief but principled comment on his Daily Telegraph blog.
8 Nov 2012

Nobel Peace Prize campaign for Taliban target Malala Yousafzai

An international campaign is being organised to nominate the 15-year old young woman shot in the head by the Taliban for a Nobel Peace Prize.
8 Nov 2012

Obama asked to shut Guantanamo and restore human rights record

Amnesty International USA will be urging second-term President Barack Obama to finally close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
6 Nov 2012

Chinese women’s rights activist sent to labour camp

A prominent Chinese women’s rights activist, Mao Hengfeng, has been sentenced to one-and-a-half years in a labour camp, amid protests.
31 Oct 2012

Trial hearing for British mother imprisoned with newborn baby

A British woman facing the death penalty in Pakistan, who is being held in jail along with her newborn baby, is due to appear in court tomorrow (1 November).
31 Oct 2012

Reparations for war-time rape urged on Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sexual violence during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina shattered the lives of thousands of women, a new human rights briefing says.
29 Oct 2012

Catholic bishops seek to remove Jimmy Savile's papal honour

Catholic bishops in England and Wales have been in touch with the Holy See to ask if a papal honour given to Jimmy Savile can be rescinded posthumously.
28 Oct 2012

Concern over ethnic clashes in Burma's Rakhine state

The deaths of people in ethnic clashes in Burma’s Rakhine state are a tragic loss of life and must be dealth with immediately, human rights groups say.
19 Oct 2012

Call for former Libyan intelligence chief to face justice

Amnesty International wants the Libyan authorities to hand over the former ruler’s military intelligence chief to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
19 Oct 2012

Liberty welcomes B&B discrimination case ruling

Michael Black and John Morgan have won a legal case which they brought after they were refused a room at a Berkshire Bed and Breakfast because they are a gay couple.

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