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December 23, 2020

Journalist murdered in Afghanistan is third in six weeks

Afghan journalists and media must not be condemned to helplessness by the silence from international bodies, says RSF.
December 3, 2020

War crimes trial in Switzerland 'important step forward for victims'

The trial of a former Liberian rebel leader arrested in Switzerland for alleged war crimes during Liberia’s first civil war is an important step forward for victims, says Human Rights Watch.
November 11, 2020

Cross-party Committee calls for clear limits on MI5 crimes

We cannot pass a law that leaves open the possibility of state-sanctioned rape, murder or torture, says the Committee Chair.
October 17, 2020

Commons passes agent crime bill without limits

The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill, which grants every police force in Britain, MI5 and a broad range of other governmental bodies the power to authorise undercover agents to commit crimes, has passed its third reading in the Commons
July 31, 2020

2019 saw highest number of land and environmental activists murdered in one year

Last year 212 people were killed for peacefully defending their homes and standing up to the destruction of nature, says Global Witness.
July 23, 2019

UK licensed £650 million worth of arms to Saudi Arabia following Khashoggi murder, says CAAT

The UK Government licensed £648 million worth of arms to Saudi Arabia in the six months that followed the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Turkey on 2 October 2018.
July 18, 2019

Three men to be tried in Malta for Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder

The announcement came 21 months fter Caruana Galizia, a journalist who investigated corruption, was killed by a bomb placed under her car outside her home.
July 6, 2019

Medical charity says US-Mexico decision puts asylum seekers in extreme danger

A medical charity says the policy that forces people seeking asylum in the US to wait out legal proceedings in violent areas of Mexico puts them in extreme danger.
June 17, 2019

Sixth journalist murdered in Mexico during 2019

A crime reporter was gunned down outside her home after writing a series of stories implicating police officers in a kidnapping.
May 30, 2019

Warrants which led to arrests of Northern Ireland journalists to be quashed

Northern Ireland’s Lord Chief Justice has said that Belfast High Court is “minded to quash” the warrant which authorised police raids on the homes and offices of investigative journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey.