Human rights

Articles

An ability to persuade by Jon Robins (December 2009)

From the Birmingham Six to the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, radical barrister Michael Mansfield has represented them all. Jon Robins interviews him as he takes a break from his high-profile legal career

A friend in court by Liz Davies (December 2009)

Liz Davies reviews Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer by Michael Mansfield QC (Bloomsbury, 2009)

Guilty as not charged by Andy Bowman (June 2009)

Hicham Yezza, a student at the University of Nottingham, was cleared of all charges after his arrest for ‘terrorism’ – but now faces deportation anyway. Prison officials are blocking Red Pepper’s attempts to contact him, but Andy Bowman spoke to two of his close friends about the case

A new zeitgeist on rights by Stuart Weir (May 2009)

The Convention on Modern Liberty inspired a huge surge of energy around civil liberties, says Stuart Weir. Human rights campaigners could be on the verge of a historic breakthrough

Human rights campaigners are not terrorists by Peter Tatchell (January 2009)

A trial is drawing to a close in which anti-terror laws are being used to prosecute innocent human rights campaigners. Peter Tatchell reports

The left’s unlikely ally by David Beetham (August 2008)

David Davis’s by-election campaign against 42-day detention tapped into a widespread feeling that our traditional liberties are under threat from a much distrusted political class, says David Beetham. But don’t hold your breath for a more liberal Conservative administration

Legalising barbarism by Ben Hayes (July 2008)

From Bolivia to Bangladesh, the new EU return directive – which allows for the imprisonment of ‘illegal’ migrants for up to 18 months prior to their expulsion – has met with global condemnation. But it forms only one strand of a broader ‘Fortress Europe’ approach to control all migrants, writes Ben Hayes