by Ivana Davidovic Maryam Alkhawaya from the Bahrain Center for Human Rights comes from a family of activists, many of whom have been on the receiving end of the police brutality in the Kingdom. So much so that she joked......more
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Plunder of the oceans - The rise of pirate fishing, impacts and solutions
By Shyamalie SatkunanadnanWith more than one billion of the world’s population reliant on fish as their main source of protein and up to 90 per cent of fish disappearing in some parts of the oceans, the impact of illegal, unregulated......more
Life with Murder: Q&A with Dr Rachel Condry
In 1998 Jennifer Jenkins was shot four times by her brother, Mason, who was subsequently arrested and convicted for her murder. Their parents, Leslie and Brian Jenkins decided to continue to support their imprisoned son and were ostracised by their community. Dr Rachel Condry spoke to audience members after a screening of Life With Murder, an intimate portrait of the Jenkins family and the aftermath of their daughter's death. ...more
The "unstoppable" growth of secrecy in the UK
The future green paper is likely to lay the ground for a special form of secret court claimed Gareth Peirce speaking at the Frontline Club last night. Asked about a current attempt by the Government to hold an entire......more
Social networking and journalism: Power to the people?
By Julie Tomlin and Sirena Bergman How have Facebook, Twitter and blogs changed changed grassroots politics? This was the question tackled at the club on Tuesday, at an event moderated by Deborah Bonello, founder of Mexicoreporter.com and video journalist for......more
Lord Puttnam: Digital Economy Act is 'inadequate' in meeting 21st century challenges
By Jasper Jackson The Digital Economy Act will allow the government to disconnect the very worst offending online piracy offenders from the internet, potentially cutting many ordinary people from an increasingly vital service. But the act, now passed into law,......more
Superinjunctions at the Frontline: Heated debate on libel cost controls
By Jasper Jackson The threat to freedom of speech from costly libel cases and the "chilling" fear of legal action could be alleviated by reforming the system to deal with smaller cases faster and cap the maximum costs lawyers can......more
Clive Stafford Smith: Journalists need to dig deeper on Guantanamo truth
By Patrick Smith Journalists and human rights campaigners need to "expose the truth" behind the United States' extra-judicial prison camps such as Guantanamo Bay and Bagram prison in Afghanistan. That's the call from leading human rights lawyer and founder of......more
Karen Greenberg on the first 100 days of Guantanamo
The launch of Karen Greenberg’s book The Least Worst Place made the headlines in the Telegraph with her account of the first 100 days of the notorious prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and how its leadership tried to establish something......more
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