April 2012(18)
  • Apr 30 2012
  • 5:40pm
Bahrain’s screeching isn’t over yet
After recently blogging on the controversial Bahrain grand prix, I've just s...
  • Apr 27 2012
  • 6:12pm
The great escape - Chen Guangcheng flees house arrest
Chen Guangcheng, the blind human rights activist and long-time Amnesty case, has...
  • Apr 26 2012
  • 5:41pm
No head of state should rest easy – today a precedent has been set – Taylor-made justice will catch up with you in the end
Justice is a dish best served, even if it is lukewarm, and today it has been.
  • Apr 25 2012
  • 2:22pm
Journalism is not all spattered by the mud of Leveson
With every revelation that spills out of the Leveson inquiry the reputation of j...
  • Apr 24 2012
  • 10:23am
Will Europe take a stand on Islamaphobia?
On Sunday, France went to the polls in the first-round of their presidential ele...
  • Apr 23 2012
  • 12:21pm
Shell 'inaccurate' figures exposed at start of Amnesty's week of action
So here it is our week of action on Shell. Let’s roll up the sleeves and b...
  • Apr 20 2012
  • 6:05pm
Beyond the rhetoric and declarations - the reality for people living in South Sudan
A small Amnesty delegation has spent just over a week in South Sudan assessing t...
  • Apr 19 2012
  • 5:40pm
Do you agree that the following is a leading question?
Q: Do you agree that human rights have become a charter for criminals and the un...
  • Apr 17 2012
  • 2:03pm
Why using the Bahrain Grand Prix as PR will backfire
If you’ve been bored enough to read my posts before you might have picked ...
  • Apr 16 2012
  • 1:50pm
The Angola 3: 100 years of solitude
I wrote about Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, two-thirds of the notorious &ld...

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