The regime in Turkmenistan

(and there’s a funny jab at facebook at the end of the clip)

Japan’s justice system

Thursday, 4 December 2008, 21:41 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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Pakistan demands all Pakistani prisoners are released from Guantanamo

Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 14:38 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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I found this very heartening. Most Western countries (with the exception of Canada and the case of Omar Khadr) have successfully gotten their citizens out of Guantanamo. Hardly any non-Western countries have tried to put any sort of diplomatic pressure on the US about this though. In fact in many cases they have refused [...]

Water-boarding

This is a very informative article about water-boarding - a procedure the USA has legalized to aid interrogating of prisoners.

China criticises the US on human rights record

Monday, 27 October 2008, 21:30 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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Tanzanian albinos

Sunday, 26 October 2008, 1:04 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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Tanzanian albinos have staged a protest to raise awareness of their problems. They are being killed so that witch doctors can make potions out of their body parts.

Omar Khadr

Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen. He was 15 when he was taken into custody by US soldiers in Afghanistan. He is now 23 and still has not been sentenced. He remains in Guantanamo and the Canadian government is not doing anything to help him (Omar Khadr is the only Western national remaining in Guantanamo, [...]

A strip search in the centre of Athens

Thursday, 23 October 2008, 1:34 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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That’s what apparently happened.