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I have spent most of the day loitering outside the Iranian embassy. It is not illegal but it is frowned upon. From a great height, through an open window, by burly looking security officials. I was there with 20 school children from...
Is Gaddafi going to end up paying an unintended visit to The Netherlands in the near future? It certainly looks possible. Of course he and others in the Libyan government are now busy sounding off about how the International Criminal...
Thankfully the judicial blinding of a man in Iran , which created a lot of news interest over the weekend, has been postponed. Majid Movahedi was sentenced to “retribution in kind” (qesas) in 2008 after he poured a bucket of acid over...
Ai Weiweiand all those have been detained, arrested, or ‘disappeared’ by the Chineseregime since February. The list also includes Tibetan prisoners of consciencedetained since 2008 and Uighur prisoners of consciencedetained since 2009...
USA: The Death Penalty Gender Gap----Women oppose capital punishment more than men. And they're a force behind the national effort to end it. womensenewsonline.org Monday, April 25, 2011 On March 9, Illinois Gov. Patrick Quinn signed a...