Concerns are growing among human rights groups and ex-soldiers about UK government plans for a new law to protect British soldiers from prosecution for any acts of murder or torture committe... Read more
“When those folks are on the sidelines when black and brown bodies are being killed in our midst, it leaves a community feeling devalued, like they don’t matter," said licensed social worker... Read more
What will the upcoming year bring in world affairs? A presidential election looms in America; the wave of leaderless protests from Chile to Lebanon is rolling on; China’s rising belligerence... Read more
A ruling by British judges declaring it legal for Britain’s state security service – MI5 – to shield agents or informers from prosecution for crimes committed in the line of duty is a hugely... Read more
Yvonne Collinson-Heath and Jim Collinson said they saw the families of three other soldiers who died at the Army base in Surrey face new inquests and they did not have the strength. Read more
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Several important steps have been made over the last two weeks on the thorny and long-ignored plight of the prosecution of post Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) cases. Read more
No matter how much you try to suppress it, the truth has a way of floating to the top. Nowhere was this more convincingly illustrated than in the recently concluded Ahmed Timol inquest. Read more
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Shock belts, spiked batons, and electrified thumbscrews can serve no other purpose than to inflict pain on people. But although torture is prohibited by international law, goods such as thes... Read more
The Ahmed Timol inquest has concluded with the prosecution and the anti-apartheid activist’s family asking the Pretoria High Court Judge Billy Mothle to reject the by the apartheid security... Read more
After the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and the collapse of military opposition offered by Saddam Hussein’s forces, the US-led coalition decided there would be a need to intern thousands of... Read more
