US seeks death penalty for Guantanamo detainees

12 February, 2008 - 01:00
The US government is seeking the death penalty against six men currently held at Guantanamo Bay which it calls “high-value” detainees. Five of the six men charged were held for more than three years in secret CIA custody at unknown locations before being transferred to Guantanamo in September 2006. The CIA has also confirmed that at least one of the men charged was subjected to simulated drowning.
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Microsoft's battle for the OOXML frmat

5 February, 2008 - 01:00
Microsoft executives accuse IBM of leading a campaign against their initiative to have its Office Open XML standard approved by the International Organization for Standardization. Nicos Tsilas, from Microsoft, said that IBM and the likes of the Free Software Foundation have been lobbying governments to mandate the rival OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard to the exclusion of any other format. As a member of European standards group Ecma, IBM voted against the approval of Office Open XML (OOXML) as an Ecma standard.
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World Report 2008 from Human Rights Watch

5 February, 2008 - 01:00
Human Rights Watch identifies human rights challenges in need of attention in places like Chad, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia's Ogaden region, Iraq, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan's Darfur region, Burma, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Libya, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, France, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the United States, among others.
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Three internet cables are slashed leaving Iran "cut off" from Internet

5 February, 2008 - 01:00
Two days after cable cuts which "cut off Iran" and affected the rest of the Middle East and West Asia but left communications in Israel and Iraq "intact", another cable owned by the same British company is severed, once again plunging the region into "Internet darkness"
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Journalist sentenced to execution in Afghanistan for questioning womens' conditions

4 February, 2008 - 01:00
Since October 2007, Parwiz Kambakhsh, a 23 year old Afghan journalist, has been in prison in Northern Afghanistan and sentenced to execution for blasphemy. His ‘crime’ was distributing articles downloaded from the internet that questioned the condition of women under Islam.
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Brian Haw's 'Walk for Peace'

4 February, 2008 - 01:00
This morning Brian Haw began his four-day sixty-mile walk to Oxford to take part in the ‘Queen and Country’ debate at the Oxford Union
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Consultation on refugees

28 January, 2008 - 01:00
An independent enquiry into the UK's asylum system today launched CITIZENS SPEAK, the biggest ever consultation with ordinary citizens on how asylum seekers should be treated. The consultation has been launched by the Independent Asylum Commission and aims to "give ordinary people a say on sanctuary in the UK".
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AWE Aldermaston: legal challenge to denial of the right to freedom of assembly

24 January, 2008 - 01:00
A legal challenge to byelaws at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston will be brought by Public Interest Lawyers on behalf of a member of the Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp (AWPC) at the High Court in London on 1 February 2008. The claimant is seeking a judicial review of the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) decision to introduce byelaws which deny AWPC their right to freedom of assembly at the 22-year-old monthly camp.
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Facebook: Be afraid, be very afraid.

18 January, 2008 - 01:00
The Guardian's Tom Hodkinson advises us to check Facebook's Privacy policy very carefully before signing up. Parts of it read like a license for the CIA to take whatever and and whenever they like.
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Brian Haw injured in anti-SOCPA demo

18 January, 2008 - 01:00
Seven people were arrested at the demonstration on 12 Jan against the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act, currently under "review". Not all of the arrests were under SOCPA itself. Peace protester Brian Haw was injured and allegedly beaten up in a police van.
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