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  • May 7, 2020
    Free speech threatened under Jordan's COVID-19 response

    The Jordanian authorities have detained two prominent media executives, a foreign journalist, and a former member of parliament, apparently in response to public criticism.

  • April 5, 2018
    Amnesty publishes list of prisoners of conscience in Vietnam

    There are at least 97 prisoners of conscience in jails in Vietnam, many of whom are kept incommunicado in squalid conditions and routinely subjected to torture or other ill-treatment, new research by Amnesty International has revealed.

  • January 1, 2012
    New Year, polemic and asterisks

    New Year was not kept in my childhood home. My parents believed that every day was the beginning of a new year.

  • August 31, 2007
    Singer Lemar hails 'amazing' Cut the Carbon rally

    BRIT and MOBO-award winning musician Lemar has described a multi-faith Birmingham Cut the Carbon rally at Millennium Point on Bank Holiday Monday as ‘amazing’ - and has backed popular action to pressure governments on global warming.