Westminster has turned a blind eye to Bahraini authorities’ cruel and inhumane treatment of a 70-year-old political prisoner by failing to meaningfully intervene in his case and demand an immediate end to his suffering, a prominent human rights organisation says. The London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) unleashed…

Police in Britain can now conduct identity checks on the street using mobile fingerprint scanners. The scheme was introduced without parliamentary debate, and could be used to target undocumented migrants. A total of 250 handheld scanners have been handed to West Yorkshire Police officers, who will use the devices to…

British activist Lauri Love, who has been accused of hacking the Federal Reserve, Nasa and FBI, anxiously awaits a decision from Britain’s High Court on whether he should be extradited to the US, where he would face torture and potentially decades in prison. The electrical engineering student’s extradition battle has…

Published time: 9 May, 2016 23:15 UK authorities have hijacked a civil suit launched by a political activist from Suffolk accused of hacking into the Federal Reserve, in a move that has sinister implications for journalists and others who rely on encrypted data. Gifted electrical engineering student Lauri Love, 31…

Published time: 27 May, 2016 15:16 Downing Street has refused to respond to a Pakistani peace worker who is demanding to know whether he is on a secret US ‘kill list’ after he was targeted in four separate drone strikes, narrowly escaping each time. Malik Jalal, who hails from the…

Published time: 17 May, 2016 13:57 Hundreds of claimants who say they were subjected to illegal surveillance have been told by Britain’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) they must prove they are “potentially at risk” of being spied upon before the allegations can be further probed. The court’s ruling, which was…

Published time: 22 Apr, 2016 16:06 Britain’s Foreign Office (FCO) has lambasted Bahrain, China, Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia over their draconian use of the death penalty, but has failed to extend the same level of scathing scrutiny to the United States. The UK government department made the criticisms in…

Published time: 20 Apr, 2016 17:16 Britain is sleep-walking into an Orwellian surveillance state, with most of its citizens unaware of or disinterested in the far-reaching implications of the government’s Investigatory Powers (IP) Bill, a new survey suggests. A poll conducted by broadband comparison site Broadband Genie reveals the widespread…

Published time: 19 Apr, 2016 16:48 It’s highly likely the world’s largest arms fair, held in London last year, was infiltrated by criminals, a district court judge has concluded. The ruling has forced MPs to probe allegations that arms sold in Britain are linked to torture and war crimes abroad. …