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Apr 24 2008 12:04AM
Belfast's death row lawyer

Death row lawyer Gary Proctor, originally from Northern Ireland, addressed an Amnesty International meeting in Belfast this evening about his experiences. Graduating in law from Queen's University Belfast in 1995, Gary has been working...

Apr 23 2008 6:54PM
Belfast Telegraph says: don't miss Amnesty torture video

Well done to the Belfast Telegraph online for prominently featuring Amnesty's new cinema advert and viral video, The Stuff of Life , in it's 'Don't miss' section. The advert illustrates the torture technique that is 'waterboarding', as...

Apr 23 2008 5:20PM
Double Demo

Today’s blog comes from behind the placards as Amnesty International UK took to the streets for two very different causes. The day started off in Westminster outside Portcullis House for several Amnesty activists. They were joined by...

Apr 22 2008 1:58AM
Waterboarding: is it a slam dunk?

If youre a US talk radio host and youve got the vice-president on your station, youre going to put a few listeners questions to him, right? Right. Well thats what Scott Hennen did on station WDAY in Fargo, North Dakota, back in October...

Apr 21 2008 3:35PM
Egalite and Fraternite but what about the other one?

I was in Paris this weekend for the Winning Press Freedom conference , featuring a fantastic line-up of experts and journalists looking at reporting conditions in China. We heard from the BBC’s foreign news editor and the head of AP...