On Tuesday, Binyam Mohamed, a 29-year old British resident in Guantánamo, sued the British government for refusing to produce evidence which, his lawyers contend, would demonstrate that he was tortured for 27 months by or on behalf of US forces in Morocco and Afghanistan, that any “evidence” against him was only obtained through torture, and that the British government and intelligence services knew about his torture and provided personal information about him — unrelated to terrorism — that was used by the Americans’ proxy torturers in Morocco. Andy Worthington reports.

Media Lens looks at the narrow coverage of the Somalia crisis, and the media’s failure to draw attention to the West’s role.

Media Workers Against the War reports on the case of Sami al-Haj, recently released from Guantanamo Bay – and on the media’s near silence on the issue.

British Attorney Philippe Sands speaks to Democracy Now about the White House role in sanctioning torture.

War on Want condemns the Prime Minister’s ‘Business Call to Action’ on global poverty, for including corporations which have been responsible for deepening global poverty.

British agents are alleged to have questioned men at a Pakistani interrogation centre after they had been brutally mistreated. Ian Cobain reports.

The situation for women in Iraq has become critical, says . US forces and the Iraqi government need to take urgent action to protect them

Yes that’s right. Under the Terrorism Act 2000, we no longer have this right – as IMCista explains.

The UK government should abandon its insistence on exempting certain weapons from the new cluster munitions treaty, says Human Rights Watch.

A little known UK government legal order forces individuals merely “suspected of terrorism” to have all their assets seized and forced to appeal for funds to even feed themselves. Statewatch reports.

The British government admits that Iran executes gays and lesbians, but will not admit that there is systematic repression of homosexuals. Global pressure has forced them to back down, for the time being, on plans to return a 19-year-old asylum seeker to probable execution.

When talking about Iranian asylum seekers, activists should be careful not to play the Home Office’s game. Scott Long of Human Rights Watch reports.

The Ministry of Defence has at last admitted that the rights of Baha Mousa, an Iraqi who died in British detention, were violated in 2003. The human rights organsiation Liberty reports.

Amnesty International is probably the world’s best known human rights organisation, but it is training activists to avert their gaze from their own government’s crimes – and thereby making those crimes more likely, and more terrible. Antarchia reports.

This illegal incarceration should be a global cause celebre, but instead there is a shameful silence, writes John Pilger.

After a two-year campaign to protect our freedoms, The Observer’s Henry Porter was called last week to give evidence to a panel of peers and MPs assessing whether a Bill of Rights is necessary for Britain today. Here is his submission.

Amnesty International and seven other human rights organisations decry Israel’s collective punishment of the Gaza Strip, carried out in collusion with the U.S. and the EU, which has led to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

The collapse of Spain’s extradition case against el-Banna and Deghayes should lead to an official British acknowledgement of their innocence, says Victoria Brittain

Philip Zimbardo’s analysis of how, psychologically, we permit torture is spot-on, says Phil Shiner. But how did we allow it politically?

Lord Harries of Pentregarth and Lord Archer of Sandwell on the systematic denial of human rights and self-determination in West Papua, carried out with the complicity of the British government.