Ever since the dramatic arrest of the former Chilean dictator Auguste Pinochet in London in 1998, at the behest of the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, human rights advocates and victims
I am not so ignorant as to believe that this meager webblog could draw significant attention to Akbar Ganji's imprisonment.
Although, I hope it to be a stepping
Rafsanjani and Khatami are surprisingly absent and Khamenei doesn't try to hide it For the first time, Hashemi Rafsanjani has revealed a deepening dissatisfaction with how Khamenei is
On 21 July London suffered a second bombing attack upon its transport system and people. Coinciding with this was an event that had been much anticipated throughout England; the first
It is not often that Hip Hop’s qualities are extolled, therefore it came as a pleasant surprise to see just that in the June issue of lifestyle magazine, Ebony.
By Daniela Munoz
The university of Kent, the Institut Francais, and the Goethe Institut London will celebrate and examine the cinema of Werner Herzog through a conference on the films
I pledged to send some money to victims of Katrina the other day, and was surprised to receive a few emails and comments from friends and family who had consciously
On the 1st of August, Italy’s Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu created a new legislation which he described as “an intervention to make existing norms sharper and more incisive in
Hardliners in Iran have picked up heavily on Washington's failurein the recent hurricane in New Orleans, as if the regime of Iran is the most human-loving state on
A couple of months ago I asked what would happen now the internet giants are circling over the second largest web market in the world, China. Would the old maxim
Accountability is not, as President Bush has described it, a “blame game”. It is a fundamental requirement of a functioning democracy. With his announcement that he himself would lead the
I've written about this before, but given that Saddam's trial seems to be approaching I'll reemphasize some things. The October 19th trial will focus
