This Guardian article tells how one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp . For more insights go to Liberty in North Korea or Link.

George Clooney has been arrested outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington. He and others are protesting about the tactics that were used in Darfur and are now being used in southern Sudan, with the likely result of many thousands of...

In Tibet some people have been killing themselves by fire . How bad must life be like under Chinese rule for some people to turn to such desperate protests? The funeral of one recently has led to a protest .