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3 December 2008 THE MAY Day Detainees went back to court last week. This time they appealed to the House of Lords against the judgement from the High Court, which said it was lawful for the Metropolitan Police to hold... 23 November 2008 Lois Austin -v- commissioner of police of the metropolis: An important test case concerning the limitation of the police's power to control demonstrators will be heard by the House of Lords from 24th-26th November 2008... 18 June 2008 ON 10 June, Tamils in London gathered in front of the Commonwealth Office to protest against Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapaksa's visit and against the UK prime minister Gordon Brown. 17 June 2008 TORY SHADOW Home Secretary David Davis has stood down to fight a by-election in opposition to the government's narrow victory on the issue of 42 days detention without charge for 'terrorist' suspects, writes Ken Douglas. 21 May 2008 AN ESTIMATED 50,000 people or more were killed when a powerful earthquake struck central China last week. Some five million survivors are homeless. Chen Lizhi and Vincent Kolo expose the shortcomings of the regime in the light of this disaster. 16 April 2008 The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill going through parliament at the moment is causing controversy... 20 February 2008 Prison Officers Association protest outside the Royal Court of Justice, joined by Brian Caton, POA general secretary, photo Keith Dickinson 13 December 2007
LAST WEEK it was disclosed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had destroyed video tape evidence of prisoners ("detainees") being tortured at the US-run Guantanamo Bay concentration camp in Cuba... By Dave Carr 6 December 2007
PAPER MASKS, scissors and some toy soldiers. These are the offensive items found by 100 police officers, after holding three busloads of anti-war protesters... By Michael Wrack, Hackney Socialist Party 2 June 2007
Once again the world's media has been focused on the horrific breaking up of an attempted protest in Moscow.... 1 - 10 of 16 | Next > | |||||||||||||||
