• May 15 2012
  • 5:41pm
Journalism in a dark chamber? Robin Hammond is a reminder that not all hacks are hackers
The story of the Sunday Times’ photojournalist Robin Hammond’s recent ordeal in Zimbabwe is a startling reminder of the risks faced by journalists when they’re trying to cover ...
  • May 10 2012
  • 1:35pm
Abu Qatada: will no-one rid me of this turbulent cleric ...?
… might well be what the Home Secretary Theresa May thinks about Abu Qatada after yet another round of media scrutiny of her decision-making in the c ...
  • May 1 2012
  • 5:27pm
The Sumid oil workers’ strike: a new Suez crisis?
As my partner observed the other day, it’s May Day today but we’re not on holida ...
  • Apr 30 2012
  • 5:40pm
Bahrain’s screeching isn’t over yet
After recently blogging on the controversial Bahrain grand prix, I've just spent the past weekend in Italy listening to the interminable drone of cars at the Monza F1 trac ...
  • 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 journalism in the UK seems to sink deeper into the black, oozing m ...
  • 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 up a certain ... reticence when it comes to sp ...
  • 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 “Angola 3” USA solitary confinement trio last June, and re-reading the po ...
  • Apr 10 2012
  • 3:58pm
Until freedom or death: Abdulhadi al-Khawaja’s hunger strike
A question. What were you doing on Wednesday 8 February? Er, you probably don’t know. (Why would you?) Me neither. You’re even less likely to remember what you had to eat that ...
  • Apr 4 2012
  • 5:09pm
Pussy Riot: a riot of their own
Video A little while ago I was blogging about protest songs and Bob Dylan.
  • Apr 3 2012
  • 3:14pm
Arizona’s prisons: maxed out on sensory deprivation
With the “war on terror” interrogation and detention regimes of the last ten years we’ve heard a lot about sensory deprivation/overload techniques: hooding, placing people in ...
Neil Durkin

About me

Things I like: la vita italiana; new wave not nu rave; espresso; anti-folk; suits; Iain Sinclair; London; not eating meat; Mark Steel; haloumi; New York; Stanley Brinks; home recording; charity shops; reggae; Claire Denis; jazz; animals; cheap red wine.

You'll also find me on twitter as @niluccio or if you're a journalist you can call the Amnesty UK media team on +44 (0)20 7033 1547.