Amidst the burning flesh of Homs, Syrians plead: “We are getting slaughtered, save us”
Besieged residents of the Syrian city of Homs are crying out for Western intervention to save them from being slaughtered at the hands of Bashar al-Assad.
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Today sees 10 years of Guantanamo – when will Obama honour his pledge?
Ten years ago to the day, the United States government opened the now infamous Guantanamo Bay detention camp – Mike Morgan-Giles reports.
Syria: When will the West act?
With each passing day, at the dawn of 2012, the future for Syria looks ever bleaker, with President Bashar al-Assad becoming ever more brutal, writes Shamik Das.
Why Musharraf’s torture remarks matter
Jeremy Croft, Head of Policy and Government Affairs at Amnesty International UK, on the importance of former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s remarks on torture, and the UK’s “tacit approval”.
Beyond Libya, Howard Davies had never got to grips with the Middle East
Seph Brown looks at Howard Davies’s serial failures of moral leadership over the Middle East – not just his close financial links the the vile Gaddafi regime.
George W Bush is wrong – waterboarding only helps our enemies
Of course, Islamists would take any event and try to twist it to fit their narratives, but Bush’s comments hand them a propaganda coup of vast dimensions. Not only did America go against ‘western values’ by torturing prisoners, but now its former President is crowing about it in the media. Islamist recruiters must be rubbing their hands with glee.
The Coalition’s scandalous opposition to EU anti-trafficking law
The refusal of the Coalition to endorse a European Union directive to combat the trade in sex slaves and child trafficking shows the weakness of the Liberal Democrat arm of the Government.
Foreign Secretary in bid to halt disclosure of British collusion in torture
David Miliband will go to court again this week to prevent evidence of torture in the case of Binyam Mohamed from being disclosed.
Don’t Panic’s new video targets MI6’s Vauxhall “torture club”
Thought-provoking new video from Heydon Prowse’s Don’t Panic group of “internet guerrillas”
BNP leaders take seats on key EU Committees
The two British National Party MEPs elected in last month’s European elections have this week been appointed to key parliamentary committees. Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons will take up seats on the influential Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI)test