Htay Kywe, 39, was the last remaining leader of a group called the 88 Generation Students Group, which led protests against a fuel price increase in mid-August that grew into huge demonstrations against the military junta...
8 October, 2007 - 01:00
Liberty has advised that the proposed Metropolitan Police restrictions on the route of the Stop The War march are disproportionate and contrary to the Human Rights Act. However, whilst this restriction might be challengeable in future legal action after the march, it may not prevent the police from arresting and detaining individuals who join in the demonstration.
8 October, 2007 - 01:00
Convicted Uzbek 'gangster' Alisher Usmanov, 'allegedly' connected to the heroin trade (and maybe more than one kind of Arsenal) is attempting to pull the plug on stories appearing on , Indymedia and other websites including that of former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray.
8 October, 2007 - 01:00
UK sends asylum seekers to torture, starvation, rape and death, eggedon by the vitriolic Daily Mail and Express.
8 October, 2007 - 01:00
Microsoft is surprise winner of the FFII's "Kayak Prize 2007", offered by the FFII in its 'NO OOXML 'call for rejection of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) standards proposal.
1 October, 2007 - 01:00
Biometric database leads to reprisals and killings says Privacy International.
1 October, 2007 - 01:00
British MPs , are shocked by , Bush official , on , Pentagon visit as White House plans surgical strikes on Iran.
1 October, 2007 - 01:00
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association call on the international media to use every possible means to try to break through this Burmese Junta's news blackout. Meanwhile a newspaper reports of 1000's killed in Burmese jungle. Burmese blogger calls for help as detained monks go on hunger strike.
1 October, 2007 - 01:00
Oil war, arms and combat training for Darfur came courtesy of the CIA .More
African Union peace-keepers are murdered and the
Sudanese Environment Conservation Society warns
of environmental catastrophe.
1 October, 2007 - 01:00
More snooping powers for state officials and quangos as new rules force phone companies to retain information about all land-line and mobile calls.