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	INTERNATIONAL - INDEX Homeland insecurity - US refuses entry to human rights defender War on terror snares peaceful, lawful campaigners Mandela betrays Zimbabwe - Silence is collusion It is time Mandela spoke out against Mugabe's tyranny African Success – Gay and straight African heroes honoured New website highlights African achievers and successes Thabo Mbeki betrays black Zimbabwe The South African President is refusing to support Zimbabwe's freedom struggle Beijing repression - Not just in Tibet but in China too The focus on Tibet often neglects the many abuses suffered by the Chinese people Nelson Mandela should urge Mugabe to go - South Africa betrays Zimbabwe African Union pressure needed to ensure election results are released and honoured Olympic torch ambushed in protest at China's human rights abuses Gordon Brown welcomes torch, colludes with China's tyrannical leaders Mugabe's election fraud - Justice postponed? Zimbabweans cry foul The main priority is to remove Mugabe from power. Justice may have to come later Baluchistan – 60 years of Pakistani invasion, annexation and occupation End military operations, release political prisoners, restore self-government Pakistan's Nelson Mandela - Baluchistan leader Akhtar Mengal Detention without trial is fanning the flames of nationalist insurrection Doug Ireland's expose of Iran's homophobic persecution Documentary evidence of individual cases of anti-gay victimisation by the Tehran regime Journalist to be executed in Iran - Yaghub Mehrnehad sentenced to hang Baluch human rights campaigner denied legal representation and fair trial Free Iran's trade union heroes - Mansour Onsaloo and Mahmoud Salehi Trade union repression is further evidence of the fascistic nature of the Tehran regime Dr Safdar Sarki - Jailed human rights hero of Sindh and Pakistan Dr Sarki's torture is emblematic of President Musharraf's tyranny US aids Pakistan massacres in occupied Baluchistan Indiscriminate bombing and strafing of civilian areas President Musharaff's limousine ambushed in London protest Pakistani dictator guilty of human rights abuses Embracing Musharraf's tyranny - Gordon Brown welcomes Pakistan's dictator President Musharraf runs a state terrorist regime, with British and US support Pakistani military attack on Baluchistan - Many civilian casualties Musharraf's violent suppression of the Baluch people Pakistan terror protest at Downing Street - Free Baluchistan President Musharraf is guilty of state terrorism in Baluchistan Baluch human rights activists remanded in custody on terror charges British government collusion with Pakistan war against Baluchistan End immunity for Heads of State who orchestrate crimes against humanity It is time to bring all torturers to justice, even Presidents and Prime Ministers Lisbon summit - Arrest Mugabe, don't embrace him EU-AU conference betrays the people of Zimbabwe Baluch human rights activists arrested in London Pakistan bid to frame nationalists on terrorism charges? Commonwealth fetes Uganda tyrant President Museveni rewarded for killing and torture Ayatollahs are murderers - Makwan, 21, to hang for sodomy Witnesses withdraw allegations - "confession" forced Saudi tyrant King Abdullah embraced by Gordon Brown - Protest! Demand an end to arms sales, bribery and human rights abuses Iran's anti-Arab racism - Six more Arabs to hang Trumped-up charges, rigged secret trials, no evidence Saudi Arabia tortures gays - 7,000 lashes for 'sodomy' could kill Protest at Saudi Embassy demands: Stop persecuting queers! Islamists betray Palestine - and undermine the Palestinian cause Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah are the kiss of death for Palestinians Islamist fundis slander and threaten Tatchell on Al Quds demo Pro-Palestinian protest backs Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah Slums on the Rock - Moroccan hostel shame in Gibraltar Third World housing squalor in the heart of Europe Gibraltar fails EU human rights standards Lack of redress for victims, drift towards autocracy Iran executes more Arabs after unfair trials The West doesn't give a damn about Iran's human rights abuses Gordon Brown's summit boycott won't stop Mugabe A good gesture, but it's not enough to free Zimbabwe from tyranny Gay Iraqis win asylum - Refusal of refugee status overturned Victims of homophobic terror in Iraq defeat the Home Office Ugandan gays demand freedom - "Let us live in peace" Homophobic, authoritarian church and state challenged 9/11 - The big cover-up? Even some 9/11 Commissioners admit they were obstructed and misled Nigeria's anti-gay witch-hunt - 18 arrests in Bauchi state Nigerian democracy? The persecution of gays is pure tyranny Save Pegah - Write now! Iranian lesbian faces deportation International day of action - Solidarity with Iranian trade unionists Free Mansour Osanloo, Mahmoud Salehi & all jailed union activists Gibraltar court to rule on anti-gay discrimination Chief Minister refuses to allow same-sex joint tenancies Gay Iraqis spared execution by Muqtada al-Sadr's militia Mahdi Army entraps gay men via internet chatrooms EU-AU Summit - Don't embrace Mugabe, arrest him Send Mugabe an arrest warrant, not a summit invitation Jerusalem Gay Pride defies Jewish fundamentalist threats Knesset vote to outlaw Gay Pride "bigoted and dangerous" *Russia's new police state - The Guardian June 2007 Moscow police collude with fascists and right-wing nationalists Moscow police - False arrest claims, collusion with fascists Criminal investigation opened, but prosecution unlikely Moscow Gay Pride - Gays arrested and attacked Tatchell bashed by Moscow Nazis Gay rights are human rights - in Russia and everywhere Alliances, unity & solidarity are vital to win human rights Polish homophobia protest - Oppose Poland's Section 28 Right-wing government & neo-Nazis queer-bash LGBTIs Africa's success story - Somaliland From war and repression to peace and democracy Zimbabwe - No more empty gestures, put Mugabe on trial If Milosevic could stand trial in The Hague, why can't Mugabe? African LGBTI smears - False, sectarian allegations refuted Lies, slurs, egos, power & funding - nothing to do with queer liberation IRAQ - DANGER AT EVERY TURN, AS DEATH SQUADS TARGET GAYS Gays are the target today, tomorrow it will be every Iraqi JAMAICA: POLICE SHAME OVER INACTION ON HOMOPHOBIC HATE CRIME Police are persecutors, not protectors - they collude with murder ZIMBABWE - ROBERT MUGABE, FROM HERO TO TYRANT ZANU-PF echoes the brutality of apartheid South Africa IRAN'S HEROIC WOMEN DEFY THE SEXIST ISLAMIST DICTATORSHIP IN TEHRAN Despite violent repression, Iranian feminists demand equality MOSCOW MAYOR - "SATANIC" PROTEST AT CITY HALL, LONDON Russian gay leader threatened by Luzhkov thug: "we will get you" JAMAICAN GAY LEADER ESCAPES ATTEMPTED LYNCHING Police and public batter victim of homophobic mob IRAQ - GOVERNMENT MINISTERS COLLUDE WITH THE KILLERS OF GAYS US and UK condemned for refusing asylum to gay Iraqis NIGERIAN LAW IS THE WORLD'S MOST SWEEPING ANTI-GAY LEGISLATION All expressions of gay identity and sexuality to be outlawed SEXUAL CLEANSING IN IRAQ Islamist death squads execute gays and lesbians SADDAM HUSSEIN - MORE SELECTIVE JUSTICE Only some tyrants get put on trial. Why not others? DARFUR - RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR Sexual violence against women is a crime against humanity IRAQ - FUNDAMENTALIST DEATH SQUADS KIDNAP & KILL QUEERS Five gay activists abducted, two lesbians and child murdered GENOCIDE IN WEST PAPUA? - UN COLLUSION WITH INDONESIAN OCCUPATION Jakarta's racism and cultural imperialism, aided by western corporations IRAN - 10 ARAB RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TO HANG Lobby the UN and EU to save these men's lives HANGING IS TOO GOOD FOR SADDAM - WHAT ABOUT REDEMPTION? Saddam is better alive and repentant than dead without remorse EX-PRESIDENT KHATAMI OF IRAN - POLICE REFUSE ARREST APPLICATION Allegations of torture ignored; student victims denied justice IRAN IS A RACIST STATE Tehran's ethnic cleansing of Ahwazi Arabs ANC BETRAYS BLACK ZIMBABWE - SA FOREIGN MINISTER AMBUSHED Dr Zuma's London lecture at LSE disrupted by Free Zim Youth KILLER KHATAMI - NO HONORARY DEGREE FOR EX-DICTATOR OF IRAN Sir Menzies Campbell colludes with Islamist murderer OVERTHROW THE ISLAMIST DICTATORSHIP IN KHARTOUM Call for a democratic, secular, non-racial and federal Sudan IRAN'S ANTI-ARAB RACISM AND ETHNIC CLEANSING Tehran's secret war against its own people UGANDA - PROTEST AGAINST OUTINGS AND HARRASSMENT OF LGBTs High Commission in London picketed by NUS & OutRage! DARFUR GENOCIDE - ARAB RACISM & ISLAMIST OPPRESSION For lasting peace in Darfur, overthrow the dictatorship UGANDA - 45 GAYS OUTED IN HOMOPHOBIC WITCH-HUNT Police crackdown: arrests follow, others go into hiding IRAQ: ISLAMIST DEATH SQUADS KILL GAYS Homophobic terror: The Talibanisation of Iraq IRAN IS A RACIST STATE - 10 AHWAZI ARABS FACE EXECUTION Ethnic cleansing of Ahwazi Arabs in south-west Iran LATVIA ATTACKS GAYS, TRASHES DEMOCRACY - NEO-NAZIS RAMPAGE State security is invoked to deny the right to protest LATVIA - RIGA GAY PRIDE BANNED, FAR RIGHT THREATENS VIOLENCE Gay Pride march is a litmus test of Latvian democracy IRANIAN GAYS BACK 19 JULY PROTESTS - TEHRAN LIARS EXPOSED PGLO rejects Iranian slurs that hanged gays were rapists 19 JULY - GLOBAL PROTESTS AGAINST IRAN'S EXECUTION OF QUEERS Hanged gay teens remembered in US and European vigils DON'T BOYCOTT WORLD PRIDE IN JERUSALEM Against Israel's occupation, for global queer solidarity MOSCOW MAYOR POLICE, FASCISTS & CHRISTIANS WRECK GAY PRIDE Gay marchers attacked & tear-gassed, as far right rampages GAYS DEFY MOSCOW BAN - MAYOR THREATENS MASS ARRESTS Political and religious leaders pledge violent counter-protests IRAQI POLICE EXECUTE 14 YEAR OLD BOY ACCUSED OF GAY SEX Ahmed Khalil shot dead on doorstep to cleanse the community IRAN - STATE TORTURE AND MURDER OF LESBIANS AND GAYS Victims framed on false charges of kidnap and rape IRAN - SOLIDARITY WITH THE AHWAZI FREEDOM STRUGGLE Tehran's bloody record of arrests, torture and executions ANTI-WAR, PRO-HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ AND IRAN Islamists! Stop killing queers, women and leftists IRAQ - AYATOLLAH SISTANI DEMANDS DEATH TO GAYS Death fatwa encourages terror wave against queers ZIMBABWE COUP PLOT CLAIM IS MUGABE "FAIRY TALE" Allegations designed to justify increased repression MOSCOW GAY PRIDE - LONDON PROTEST AGAINST MAYOR'S BAN Russian Consulate picketed to demand the right to protest FREE IRAN'S 800 JAILED UNION ACTIVISTS - SUPPORT THE BUS STRIKERS Defend the right of Iranian workers to form labour unions REGGAE STAR BUJU BANTON ACQUITTED OF GAY-BASH ATTACK Homophobia rife: No justice for lesbian & gay Jamaicans JAMAICA : TRAGIC END TO ATTEMPTED GAY-BASH ATTACK Man fleeing mob jumps into the sea and drowns US STATE DEPARTMENT URGED TO DOCUMENT GAY HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES Evidence will support LGBT rights campaigns and LGBT asylum seekers POLISH PRIME MINISTER SLINKS IN BACK DOOR TO AVOID GAY PROTEST Gays condemn Marcinkiewicz's homophobia and police repression FAR LEFT COLLUSION WITH THE ISLAMO-FASCISM OF IRAN'S CLERICAL TYRANNY Solidarity with the Iranian people's struggle for democracy & human rights IRAN HANGS TWO MORE GAY MEN - HOMOPHOBIC REPRESSION INTENSIFIES Islamo-fascists witch-hunt queers in defiance of human rights norms NIGERIA - TEEN LESBIANS FACE BRUTAL CANING Barbaric punishment violates UN Torture Convention NEPAL POLICE ABUSE AND BEAT TRANSGENDERS Threat to crush LGBT human rights movement DON'T BOYCOTT WORLD PRIDE 2006 IN JERUSALEM Support the liberation struggles of queer Israelis and Palestinians NAMIBIAN LEADER DEMONISES AND SCAPEGOATS QUEERS SWAPO hypocrites denounce homosexuality IRAQI GAYS FACE ABUSE & MURDER - NO TO SHARI'AH LAW Only a democratic, secular Iraq can ensure gay human rights GAY TEENS EXECUTED IN IRAN - AYATOLLAHS HAVE MURDERED 100,000 PEOPLE One hanged youth was a minor, latest outrage by Islamo-fascist regime GAY PALESTINIANS - STOP TORTURE AND MURDER BY PLO & HAMAS Freedom for all Palestinians - Amnesty International inaction disappointing DARFUR "DIE-IN" AT DOWNING STREET - CALL FOR UK, EU & UN ACTION Stop the genocide - 400,000 murdered, three million refugees and rising ZIMBABWE - CALL FOR PEOPLE'S UPRISING TO OVERTHROW MUGABE Catholic Archbishop's appeal for anti-Mugabe rebellion praised IRAQ ANTI-WAR PROTEST - NO FOREIGN OCCUPATION! NO ISLAMIC STATE! For a secular, democratic Iraq ? Against clerical tyranny & Shar'ia law INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - SOLIDARITY WITH IRAQI WOMEN For a secular, democratic Iraq - No Islamic state! No Sharia law! DARFUR - UN IS ALL WORDS, NO ACTION Call for Peace-Keepers, Sanctions and No Fly Zone DARFUR GENOCIDE - ISLAMIST RACISTS! STOP KILLING BLACK AFRICANS Call for EU & UN sanctions against the military regime in Khartoum AN ETHICAL RETREAT IN THE FACE OF BARBARITY - LIBERAL VALUES COMPROMISED How the left's moral equivocations collude with human rights abuses THE QUEER KILLING FIELDS OF JAMAICA Gay Jamaicans are being murdered with police and government collusion AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT - LEADER OF THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL AUTHORITY JAMAICAN MURDER MUSIC - IT IS NOT RACIST TO CONDEMN BLACK HOMOPHOBIA Solidarity with black gays suffering persecution is a duty, not an option SLAIN JAMAICAN GAY LEADER REMEMBERED IN LONDON VIGIL Prime Minister PJ Patterson accused of collusion with anti-gay violence SUPPORT PALESTINE, CHALLENGE HOMOPHOBIA - STOP THE TORTURE AND MURDER OF GAYS The left ignores the persecution of queers by the PLO and Palestinian Authority LONDON VIGIL FOR MURDERED JAMAICAN GAY RIGHTS LEADER, BRIAN WILLIAMSON Jamaica's government slammed for indifference to homophobic hate crimes GAYS ATTACKED FOR CONDEMNING PALESTINIAN MURDER OF QUEERS! Attempt to silence debate on PLO, Hamas and Palestinian Authority homophobia TATCHELL URGES: RENAME AUSSIE CAPITALS Replace English names with Aboriginal ones MUGABE ARREST WARRANT VERDICT - "A LICENCE TO TORTURE" Justice denied to Zimbabwean torture victims - Heads of State have immunity MUGABE ARREST BID - LEGAL SUBMISSION TO THE COURT On charges of torture - Why President Mugabe should not enjoy state immunity for the crime of torture NEW BID TO PUT MUGABE ON TRIAL ON CHARGES OF TORTURE Application at Bow Street court for arrest warrant and extradition order ZIMBABWE FREEDOM MOVEMENT - VIDEO MESSAGE FROM THE UNDERGROUND LEADERS ZIMBABWE FREEDOM MOVEMENT LAUNCHED: MUGABE FACES COUP THREAT Mugabe warned: step down now or be removed by armed force SWITCH OFF MUGABE'S POWER South Africa urged to cut electricity supplies to Zimbabwe EMPOWERING IRAQIS TO LIBERATE THEMSELVES Aid the anti-Saddam opposition to enable them to make their own democratic revolution IRAQ - AN ALGERIAN-STYLE DEBACLE? Could the US suffer the same fate as the French in Algeria? IRAQ: A VIETNAM-STYLE QUAGMIRE? Western forces could get bogged down in a long, bloody urban guerrilla war NO INVASION OF IRAQ! ARM THE KURDS TO TOPPLE SADDAM With military aid, the Iraqi resistance can overthrow the Butcher of Baghdad TONY BLAIR'S MOTORCADE AMBUSHED IN PLEA TO "ARM THE KURDS" Anti-war movement condemned for not backing the Iraqi resistance LEGAL BID TO ARREST MUGABE - PARIS - 2003 French police protect Mugabe and arrest human rights protestors GIBRALTAR: THE ROCK OF INJUSTICE Chief Minister wants the right to self-determination but refuses to respect human rights ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IGNORES SADDAM'S CRIMES Regime change in Iraq is vital for democracy and human rights WHY IS BRITAIN REFUSING TO ISSUE A WARRANT FOR MUGABE'S ARREST The legal case for President Mugabe's arrest on charges of torture MUGABE HUNTED AND HAUNTED IN ROME Noisy midnight "Wake Up Mugabe" protest at Zimbabwe Embassy JUDGE SAYS: KISSINGER ARREST NOT "PRESENTLY" JUSTIFIED Court refuses warrant but leaves open possibility of future arrest WARRANT SOUGHT FOR THE ARREST OF HENRY KISSINGER Bid to press charges under the Geneva Conventions for war crimes in Vietnam CARL VAERNET - DANISH SS-DOCTOR IN BUCHENWALD How the Nazi doctor who experimented on gay prisoners escaped justice after WW2 TATCHELL DENIED VISA FOR FAMILY FUNERAL Australian government prevents Peter Tatchell from visiting his dying stepfather and attending his funeral APPEAL AGAINST VISA REFUSAL Peter Tatchell has been denied entry into Australia because of his bid to use the Crimes (Torture) Act to have President Mugabe of Zimbabwe arrested on charges of torture when he attends the Commonwealth Summit in Brisbane. He has submitted the following appeal against the Australian government's refusal to grant him a visa WHY IS BRITAIN SAVING THE MUGABE REGIME? Jack Straw's deal with Robert Mugabe is a life-line that has staved off the threat of sanctions and may save the Zimbabwean leader's crumbling regime BID TO ARREST MUGABE AT COMMONWEALTH SUMMIT Peter Tatchell discusses his plans to arrest President Mugabe at the Commonwealth Conference in 2002 APPEAL TO COMMONWEALTH LEADERS Call for international sanctions against the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe MUGABE CHALLENGED TO TAKE HOMOPHOBIA TEST The President of Zimbabwe is a freedom fighter turned human rights abuser DR. VAERNET'S ESCAPE - BRITISH MILITARY COLLUSION? Peter Tatchell's letter to the Ministry of Defence in London NAZI WAR CRIMINAL DR CARL VAERNET Letter from Peter Tatchell to the Danish Prime Minister Poul Rasmussen HOMOPHOBIA AS A WEAPON OF WAR The effect of the Balkan bloodbath on the lives of gay people in Serbia and Kosovo. THAILAND: GAYNESS, BAR BOYS AND SEX TOURISM The myths and realities of the country that many call a gay paradise. GAY CUBA? NOT YET** The homophobia of the Castro regime has eased, but queers still suffer discrimination.