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Police think French pair tortured for pin details

The two French students who were bound up and brutally murdered at a bedsit in south London may have been tortured for their bank and credit card pin numbers, police said yesterday. Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23,...

The Sharia debate: we can't all be equal under different laws

Allowing British Muslims recourse to Islamic law would be a charter for male dominance and peer-group bullying Sneakily, Britain's first Muslim Minister, Shahid Malik, has ducked the critics that he will enrage in an interview...

Ingrid Betancourt: Joan of Arc for our times

By Jeremy McDermott in Medellín After six years as their prize hostage, will Ingrid Betancourt now take on Colombia's FARC rebels? Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt embraces her son Lorenzo (right) and daughter Melanie It was a...

Ex-warlord accused of Congo atrocities

scotsman.com     2 hrs ago   74 related          

Published Date: 05 July 2008 FORMER Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba has appeared at the International Criminal Court facing charges of rape and torture linked to a brutal conflict in Central African Republic. Bemba,...

Human Rights Watch: 42-day terror detention 'unnecessary and counter-productive'

Government plans to extend pre-charge detention for terror suspects to 42 days are "unnecessary, disproportionate and counter-productive" and should be rejected in the House of Lords next week, Human Rights Watch said in a report.

Sri Lanka: Tamil Tigers leader quits UK after war crimes inquiry is dropped

A Tamil paramilitary leader jailed for entering Britain on a fraudulent diplomatic passport and subsequently investigated by the Metropolitan police for alleged war crimes has left Britain. Colonel Karuna Amman returned to Sri...

Race and the EU

Maybe Ireland was right to slam its door on the Lisbon Treaty and didn’t even realise it. Maybe really nasty issues of race are bubbling away in the EU, as the credit crunch bites, and then as history has always shown, people...

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amnesty.org.uk     8 hrs ago   3 related          

Amnesty International UK (AIUK) is part of a global movement of ordinary people standing up for humanity and human rights. These posts are part of growth in our UK communications work in new media and publishing. Our New Media...

Stabbings, not sex, are the real facts of life

How grim to be murdered outside Lidl. “Waitrose or M&S Simply Food at the very least,” quipped my dark-humoured friend. But from just beyond the police tape, Dee Willis's demise wasn't funny at all. Just a box of pink...

London mayor: Johnson forced to remove his deputy mayor after magistrate claim proves false

When Boris Johnson unveiled his first appointment in the afterglow of his victory over Ken Livingstone, the arrival of Ray Lewis on London's political scene was widely acclaimed as a shrewd and farsighted move. But when Lewis...

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