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Former prisoners and hostages urge Starmer to secure release of Jimmy Lai
Call for UK PM to act urgently over pro-democracy campaigner who has spent 1,602 days in solitary confinementF…
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UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state
Exclusive: Barristers at Doughty Street Chambers say they have been subject to surveillance, hacking and rape …
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Senior lawyers criticise handling of case of Sikh activist held in India
Peers express fears Jaghtar Singh Johal will not receive ‘due process’ in India amid torture claimsAssurances …
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World Uyghur Congress loses legal challenge against UK authorities
WUC claimed UK unlawfully failed or refused to investigate cotton imports from XinjiangThe World Uyghur Congre…
- Business, China, Forced labour, Human rights, International trade, Law, Politics, Trade policy, UK news, Uyghurs, World news, Xinjiang
Failure to investigate UK imports linked to forced Uyghur labour unlawful, court told
World Uyghur Forum brings high court challenge against government agencies over Xinjiang cotton importsUK gove…
- Chagos Islands, Foreign policy, Human rights, Law, Ministry of Defence, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, UK news, World news
UK accused of letting refugees make dangerous Indian Ocean boat journeys
MoD personnel escorted refugees away from Diego Garcia in boat with no record of having radio or lifesaving eq…
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BBC to pay £30,000 to Bangladeshi Labour councillor for identity mix-up
Liza Begum said confusion with Apsana Begum who was acquitted of fraud charges ‘reflects notion all people of …
- British army, Chagos Islands, Military, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, UK news, World news
Tamil refugees detained by UK on Chagos islands go on hunger strike
The 42 hunger strikers are part of group of 89 Sri Lankans whose boat was intercepted in Indian Ocean by Briti…
- CIA, Espionage, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Guantánamo Bay, Home Office, Law, MI5, MI6, Middle East and North Africa, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South and Central Asia, Torture, UK news, US news, World news
UK spies who allegedly passed questions to CIA torturers subject to English law, court rules
Abu Zubaydah, tortured at CIA ‘black sites’ in six different countries, has right to sue UK governmentUK intel…