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The three women fighting to clear their loved ones’ names

What is it like if your brother or son is convicted of murder when you are convinced they are innocent? We meet three women who have fought for years to…

17/03/2013Engin ummæliLesa Meira

Sýna hættur pyndingum kröfu redactions 'leyndarmál dómstóla’

Torture claim redactions ‘show dangers of secret courts’

Two versions of a highly sensitive military witness statement – initially substantially withheld, then later revealed – illustrate the dangers of government plans to expand secret courts, according to campaigners.…

16/01/2013Engin ummæliLesa Meira

Obama’s Disposition Matrix decides who lives or dies

Lest anyone thinks that when the US and Britain withdraw troops from Afghanistan, that will end their military involvement, think again. The United States has a new doctrine of permanent…

27/12/2012Engin ummæliLesa Meira

Ekki Queen ræðu, Brian er Haw

Brian Haw staged a peace protest on London's Parliament Square since June 2001 til bana í 2011, trying to change Britain's policy on Iraq. This is his Christmas message.…

22/12/2012Engin ummæliLesa Meira

Where anti-Muslim sentiment leads

Condemning the presence of Muslims in Britain is now routine. Media darling and quintessentially English TV chef Clarissa Dickson-Wright (full name Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby…

06/12/2012Engin ummæliLesa Meira

‘Piracy’ student Richard O’Dwyer avoids US extradition

Richard O'Dwyer, from Sheffield, is accused of breaking copyright laws. The US authorities claimed the 24-year-old's TVShack website hosted links to pirated films and TV programmes. The High Court was…

04/12/2012Engin ummæliLesa Meira

No Justice at Guantánamo

"You correctly call on President Obama to fulfill his pledge on his second day in office to “Close Guantánamo Prison” (editorial, Nov. 26). I stood behind President Obama in the…

04/12/2012Engin ummæliLesa Meira

Morocco must answer for human rights abuses in W.Sahara

Two years ago this week, just outside my home town of Laayounne in Western Sahara, in the early hours of the morning, Moroccan police and bulldozers moved in to destroy…

14/11/2012Engin ummæliLesa Meira