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  • 16 Aug 2012
    Bahrain verdict delay is 'denial of justice'

    The postponement of a verdict in the appeal case of 13 Bahraini opposition activists has been criticised as “tantamount to a denial of justice.”

  • 1 Jan 2012
    New Year, polemic and asterisks

    New Year was not kept in my childhood home. My parents believed that every day was the beginning of a new year.

  • 5 Jan 2011
    'Article 31' protesters jailed in Russia

    Amnesty International is calling for the immediate release of three Russian opposition activists detained in Moscow.

  • 15 Jan 2008
    British reporter in Zimbabwe says revolt against Mugabe underway

    One of the BBC chief reporters has defied a government ban on the Corporation's personnel operating in Zimbabwe, and has reported that opposition to President Robert Mugabe is growing within his own Zanu-PF party.

  • 3 Nov 2007
    Venezuelan Catholic bishops attack Chavez on constitution

    Roman Catholic bishops have warned that attempts at constitutional reform in Venezuela by President Hugo Chavez restrict the rights of citizens and grant too much power to the State with a "president who is re-elected indefinitely".

  • 23 Feb 2007
    US Christians will pray, process and protest against Iraq war

    Many thousands of Christians -Evangelicals, Protestants, Orthodox, Anglicans, peace churches, Black majority congregations and Roman Catholics - are preparing to pray, process and protest throughout the United States on 16 March 2007, to mark the fourth anniversary of the war and occupation of Iraq.