I have just returned from Ankara. The total number of prisoners in Turkey more than doubled between 2005 and this year, from 55,000 to 130,000. Many are held without charge, pending eventual trial, often under the Terrorism Law. 175 persons per 100,000 population are now gaoled. Turkey imprisons about twice as many journalists as either…
Please follow this link to my Question to HMG about Ethiopa and Eritrea, and the Horn of Africa, which was answered by Lord Howell of Guildford.
With reference to my speech on Friday 16th March, Lord Howell of Guildford, when replying to the debate, briefly mentioned my thoughts on a win/win strategy. I have written to him to get a fuller response on two points: firstly, a regional group to negotiate concerning Syria; and secondly, a long-term plan for resolving the long-standing issues…
This remarkable book, by a doctor born in a refugee camp in Gaza, should be read by everyone concerned with that region. In January 2009 he lost three of his eight children when a tank shell struck his house in Gaza. Yet he refuses to demand revenge, and believes that medical workers on both sides…
I asked HMG this Question about recent arrests in Turkey (see HL 15667 under 27 Feb 2012 : Column WA325)
