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Published in: Shine A LightGordon Brown on child detention
An exchange between the Prime Minister and campaigners on the question of child detention
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Published in: Shine A LightElection time: asylum seekers lose their last safety netWhen terrified men, women and children are being shunted off to countries where they face real and imminent risk of...
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Published in: Shine A LightSurveillance + detention = £Billions: How Labour’s friends are ‘securing your world’The rapid rise of the security industry with its close links to government has disturbing implications for our freedom.
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Published in: oDRThe rise and fall of Mikhail KhodorkovskyDoes a personal vendetta lie behind the imprisonment of Russia’s once-richest oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky? Was...
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Published in: Shine A LightHas Meg Hillier gone mad?
The Home Office minister is in la la land over child detention.
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Published in: oDRIs Russia’s judicial system reformable?In this interview for oDRussia, Prof.Alena Ledeneva talks to Oliver Carroll about the prospects for judicial reform...
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Published in: oDRTackling Russia’s legal nihilismOlga Kudeshkina made headlines in 2004 as the first Russian judge to flag up political interference in the judicial...
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Published in: oDRGrozny: Rebuilt, Fearful and (Almost) Forgotten by the West
Downtown Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, is ablaze with lights and full of chic shops now. But the paralysing fear...
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Published in: Shine A LightTake one traumatised child, classify as 'adult', arrest, lock up, and bundle onto plane, bound for danger - Labour's Britain in 2010
A shameful case of the imprisonment and deportation of a minor by the UK Borders Agency.
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Published in: HomeA difficult week for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The ICTY's struggle to prosecute war criminals causes a further decline in credibility in times when progress is...
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Published in: Shine A LightEd Balls and his iron hatThe Children, Schools and Families Bill is a stealth attack on liberty
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Published in: Shine A LightRoll calls, body searches and sex games
What Parliament isn’t being told about children’s lives inside a UK detention centre.
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Published in: oDRFleeced. A letter from the Russian provincesCorruption has always been part of Russian life, and the Oryol region today just offers a rather extreme example,...
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Published in: oDRThe psychiatrist as expert witness - between a rock and a hard place
The independence, or lack of it, of the Russian judiciary has been much discussed, but Emmanuil Gushansky makes an...
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Published in: oDRThe ones that lost: Russian cases rejected at the European Court
Landmark victories in defiance of the Russian government have made the European Court of Human Rights the most...
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Published in: oDRRussia's drugs problem: blame the West
Why is Russia resisting international help with its spiralling drugs problem, asks Susan Richards? While the...
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Published in: HomePakistan: prospects and perils
What's in store for Pakistan? Anatol Lieven forecasts. Listen now
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