by Sean Reilly | Jan 16, 2008
Join Amnesty’s campaign again torture. Click here for more details The global human rights group Amnesty International has called on the government of Iran to immediately abolish the “grotesque and horrific” practice of publicly stoning people to...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 15, 2008
Supporters of Brian Haw, the Christian peace protestor whose long-running Westminster vigil against the Iraq war led to the government banning demonstrations in the vicinity, have expressed outrage at his arrest yesterday. They say that the police used excessive...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 15, 2008
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. John Simpson, who came to the attention of a...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 15, 2008
The Church of the Province of Central Africa has revoked the priest’s licence of Zimbabwean Bishop Nolbert Kunonga, following his decision to pull the Anglican diocese of Harare out of the regional division of the denomination. The refusal by Kunonga and his...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 12, 2008
Pastor Sidheswar Digal was making Christmas preparations on 24 December when he heard a mob howling anti-Christian slogans outside his house. “When I came out, I saw our people running away into the jungle. They urged me, ‘run’, and I joined...
