Babar Ahmad case tramples on law and fair play
Along with four other British Muslim terror suspects, Ahmad has just lost a battle against extradition from Britain to the United States in the European Court of Human Rights. He is accused of running a terrorist website.…
Extremism, ethnic cleansing and nationalist rhetoric in Sri Lanka
Rhetoric1 derives from a long standing enquiry into the power of oral persuasion. It is linked to the combined use of language, symbology, mutually derived identity and relations between peoples and nations.…
Supermax – torture in US prisons
Solitary confinement is commonplace in US prisons. Most US states have over the last 30 years introduced specialised new segregation facilities, often referred to as "supermax." Around 80,000 people are estimated to be incarcerated in facilities of this sort.…
