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- 16 May 2012
Blind Justice
Here in the UK it’s a fundamental constitutional principle that no-one is above the law – including the Government. But as feared last week’s Queen’s Speech featured the ironically-titled Justice and Security Bill, which seeks to change all that. This is no longer just a Green Paper. We need your support for our For Their Eyes Only campaign more than ever. We’re becoming more familiar wi...
read more - 4 May 2012
Free Speech: A valuable reminder
The very day after we celebrated World Press Freedom Day, Article 10 of the Human Rights Act has once more hit the headlines – and again for all the right reasons.Malcolm Calver, a councillor in Wales, had been found to have breached the code of conduct for local government by a standards watchdog. His offence was posting insulting comments about fellow councillors on the internet. But yeste...
read more - 3 May 2012
World Press Freedom Day
Today is World Press Freedom Day. Every year, on May 3, the fundamental principles of press freedom are recognised and celebrated. The state of press freedom across the globe is evaluated and people remember and pay tribute to journalists who’ve lost their lives doing the job they loved, like Marie Colvin who died covering the conflict in Syria earlier this year.World Press Freedom Day was found...
read more - 27 April 2012
Time to embrace true equality
Over recent years we’ve made significant strides when it comes to discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in this country. Only a few decades ago, such prejudice and intolerance was the norm. The last Labour government helped change all that by equalising the age of consent, legalising same-sex adoption and introducing civil partnerships. It also passed the Human Rights Act 1998 an...
read more - 11 April 2012
Belhadj, rendition and the truth about Secret Justice
Anyone still unsure as to what’s really behind the Government’s terrifying plans for Secret Justice should just take a look at the case of Abdel Hakim Belhadj.The Libyan, now a senior member of his nation’s transitional government, claims he was abducted by CIA agents acting on information from MI6 and flown to Tripoli in March 2004, where he was tortured by Gaddafi’s regime. His wife,...
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