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Reacting to the conviction and two-year imprisonment of prominent Georgian journalist Mzia Amaghlobeli, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “Mzia Amaghlobeli was subjected to a litany of abuses at the hands of ...
The constituency of Alloa and Grangemouth has made the headlines recently, as the Labour Government has been heavily criticised for prioritising profit over people when deciding what the future holds for the constituency’s largest employer: the oil refinery. Sounding the ala...
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On Friday 19 September, groups standing in solidarity with the Congolese people against blood minerals, human rights abuses, and genocide will bring dissent and disruption to Apple’s front door. Coinciding with the company’s release day for the new iPhone 17, Stand For Congo UK, Friends of the Congo, and other groups, will pitch up outside...

A court has found Tommy Robinson to be innocent of a terror-related offence. It follows a border stop in which Robinson refused to hand his phone over to the police. Unfortunately, it’s far from the first time authorities have used terror legislation as a blanket excuse to do whatever they like. Robinson detained under Terrorism...

Far-right Reform UK party is antisemitic; in other news, water wet. We know this will come as a shock to precisely nobody, but Britain’s answer to “what is the Tories weren’t racist enough?” have posted a hideously antisemitic caricature of Green leader Zack Polanski on their social media. On Halloween, Friday 31 October, Reform’s Brighton...

Rachel Reeves, the self-styled guardian of “fiscal responsibility”, should be sitting at the dining table of her constituency home, filling out an online application form for Universal Credit around about now. Reeves, or the fiscal Iron Lady if you prefer, confessed not in shame but in a smug little statement that she’s been illegally renting...

German police in the Bavarian town of Erding have wounded a German soldier in a friendly fire incident — that the writers of Dad’s Army would have rejected as too ridiculous — because they hadn’t noticed that NATO was conducting a “large-scale” anti-Russian exercise in their town and across Bavaria. As German station Deutsche Welle (DW)...

Zahra Joya is an award-winning Afghan journalist and the founder of Rukhshana Media, an online news outlet reporting on the daily realities of women’s lives in Afghanistan. Since the Taliban seized power in 2021, Afghanistan has been in a downward spiral of human rights violations. Women are banned from almost all aspects of public life....
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Responding to the presentation of a report by the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan (CHRSS) on Friday 27 February to the UN Human Rights Council that documents the deteriorating human rights situation in the country, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa Tigere Chagutah said; “The report by the Commission on...
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