Amnesty International issues urgent call to its 2.2 million members Amnesty International today issued an urgent action to its 2.2 million members on behalf of four Chadian opposition leaders arrested by security forces in N’Djamena on 3 February. http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17633 Continue reading AIUK: opposition leaders arrested by security forces in N’Djamena
Martin Luther King Jnr – On the 40th Anniversary of his death "Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. " Dr. Martin Luther King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957), serving as its first president. His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his … Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr. Last Speech
Whitehall staff have been banned from taking laptops containing personal or unencrypted information outside of their government offices. Head of the civil service Sir Gus O’Donnell wrote to all government departments imposing the ban in the light of the latest data loss by the government. Defence secretary Des Browne yesterday confirmed to MPs a laptop with the personal details of around 600,000 potential recruits had been stolen. Continue reading WHITEHALL TO STOP TAKING INFORMATION OUTSIDE
A police officer claimed last night he had been forced to bug conversations between a Muslim MP and a terror suspect. Mark Kearney, a former office with Thames Valley Police, said he had been put under "significant pressure" to record conversations between the pair at Woodhill Prison. In a statement released last night, the former police officer said he had not felt the surveillance, alleged to have taken place between 2005 and 2006, was justified. Yesterday justice secretary Jack Straw told MPs he had asked chief surveillance commissioner Sir Christopher Rose to conduct a fact-finding inquiry into claims Sadiq Khan, … Continue reading POLICE OFFICER CLAIMS HE WAS ASKED TO “BUG” MP
Middle East quartet envoy Tony Blair has said he believes that a peace deal between Israel and Palestine could "definitely" be reached this year. In an interview with the Times newspaper, the former prime minister said solving the longstanding confrontation would help boost moderate forces in the region and that an agreement between the two sides was of paramount importance to securing world peace. He told the paper: "This is a deal that could definitely be done, and it could definitely be done this year." Continue reading BLAIR: PEACE COULD BE ACHEIVED THIS YEAR
Major topics covered in the discussion included the agenda for the upcoming Bucharest summit, NATO operations in Afghanistan and Kosovo, enlargement, relations between NATO and the European Union, energy security, missile defence, cyber defence and other new security challenges. Continue reading NATO: ESTONIAN PRESIDENT VISITS NATO
