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  • May 16 2013
  • 3:09pm
A week’s delay should suffice: is the UK still dragging its feet on Guantánamo?
A week is a long time in politics. It means, as Westminster watchers never tire of telling us, that things can change dramatically in the volatile political ecosphere.
  • May 15 2013
  • 9:42am
Innocent on Death Row
“They’re playing Russian Roulette with our lives. Our lives have no value.”
  • 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...