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  • May 13 2013
  • 1:44pm
Counting down the years: a film of Hakamada Iwao's 45 years on death row
When I was at school, back in the seventies (gulp), the most unusual after-school thing I ever did was to take part in a geography exercise to “map” the shopping precin...
  • May 16 2013
  • 6:13pm
Sit or stand against imminent execution in Indonesia: Act now!
Update, 17 May: We've heard that we were unsuccessful in persauding the Indonesian government, and the 3 men were exeucted late yesterday. 
  • May 16 2013
  • 2:32pm
Human Rights – A weapon of mass instruction?
Guest post by Pauline Kelly, Media and Campaigns Officer at Amnesty International Scotland.  
  • May 15 2013
  • 9:39pm
Arms Trade Treaty, wow what a night...
Wow, what a night. It takes quite a lot to make me speechless, but tonight’s special event at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office certainly did that.