Because they can.

I hope that this will accelerate her release.

Awful.

An excellent fisking!

My old friend Christine Bell writes.

You have been warned.

Fighting the lies.

Not a pretty picture. (NB libertarians strangely silent.

Another friend threatened.

Getting worse.

A handy guide.

Stupid populist pandering.

How censorship and propaganda fail to achieve their aims.

Paying for injustice.

Thanks in part to my friend Louis O'Neill.

Number plates and abuse of power.

American Foreign Policy in the Age of Leaks

@columlynch publishes the key document.

Human rights in the European neighbourhood.

@CEPS_thinktank in rapid response mode!

Detailed human rights breaches in Westerm Sahara. Will @eu_eeas or @StefanFuleEU say anything?

#Ohdearwhatapitynevermind.

"There’s nothing new about this, just the tools to do so are far more powerful."

"What the UK leads on is exporting the policy, laws and, increasingly, the actual technology of political suppression and social control to some of the nastiest countries in the world."

They need a reason?

"Politically, the UK would be sending a clear signal to states which lose far more cases in Strasbourg, such as Russia and Turkey, that it no longer had confidence in the ECHR system. Whether you think that is a bad thing probably depends on your underlying theory of international relations and whether you think international institutions wor…

Wonderful immigration policies which penalise the innocent traveller and encourage criminality.

Tory attorney-general is right.

Sad news of a great human rights defender. (But fails to mention his occasional career as a TV film critic.)