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15 September 2010
Fighting oppression in Kazakhstan
AS PART of a delegation by the European United Left (GUE/NGL) in the European parliament, Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP recently visited Kazakhstan to meet with independent trade union activists, human rights defenders, journalists, ex-prisoners and political activists and people from the social...
1 September 2010
Kazakhstan: Human rights activist beaten and arrested
HUMAN RIGHTS campaigner and lawyer Vadim Kuramshina was violently attacked and arrested last week in Kokchetava, northern Kazakhstan...
Firefighters protest
17 June 2010
Demonstrate Against Likely Closure of Refugee and Migrant Justice - Defend Legal Aid
Refugee and Migrant Justice (RMJ), the largest provider of specialist legal advice for asylum seekers and other vulnerable migrants in England and Wales, went into administration on June 16 2010...
4 June 2010
Kazakhstan: Mass prison hunger strike against brutal regime
OSCE Chair presides over torture of prisoners - Protests needed urgently!: From www.socialistworld.net, website of the committee for a workers' international, CWI, 03/06/2010...
26 May 2010
Human rights and the anti-union laws: Rail union RMT has launched a challenge to the anti-trade union laws in the European Court of Human Rights...
17 March 2010
Cuts mean poorest people priced out of the legal system
Legal aid in crisis: "Do you think they'll evict me?" - this is the question I was asked recently at the County Court. I was the duty solicitor representing a housing association tenant who had £2,200 rent arrears. Usually...
5 March 2010
Police clampdown on democratic rights of anti-EDL protesters (updated)
Updated 3.41pm: Peaceful anti-racist protestors and passers-by arrested outside parliament: Twenty people were arrested by the police outside the houses of parliament. They were detained in St James Gardens by the police for no reason, in a clampdown on democratic rights, but have now been released.
24 February 2010
ID cards - an expensive threat to civil liberties
NEW LABOUR has brought in several pieces of repressive legislation recently that attack our civil liberties but at least they've abandoned the unpopular plan for compulsory ID cards, haven't they, writes Tom Baldwin.
24 February 2010
UP TO 30 women detainees at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire are continuing a hunger strike...
17 February 2010
Ministers and MI5 colluded in the cover-up of torture
FOLLOWING HIS detention by the Pakistani secret service in 2002 and his sale to the US for a bounty of $5,000, Binyam Mohamed lived a shadow existence, deprived of his basic human rights, writes Ken Douglas.
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