INTERNATIONAL - INDEX

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

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