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Guest Speaker On Tuesday

Armando Rotondi will be speaking about the House of Sharing in Korea at our meeting on Tuesday 19th. The House of Sharing is both a museum and home to former “Comfort Women” – survivors of sexual slavery at the hands … Continue reading

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Get These MPs To Vote Against Extending Detention

We’ve previously discussed the decision on whether or not to extend the current 28-day detention-without-charge limit. Now, Sunny over at Liberal Conspiracy has put together a list (linked below) of Labour MPs who abstained or voted against the previous proposal … Continue reading

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Chinese Protestation of Internet Censorship Grows

Zhu Nan had been itching to say something about the country’s pervasive online censorship system, widely known here as the Great Firewall. When China’s censors began blocking access to the popular photo-sharing site Flickr, Zhu felt the moment had come. … Continue reading

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Guantánamo Detainee Claims CIA Tortured Him

Attorneys for a “high-value” terror suspect who says he was tortured while being held at secret CIA prisons have requested that a judge bar the agency from destroying evidence of the alleged torture. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/12/08/detainee.cia/

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