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New developments in the tiny Gulf Kingdom of Bahrain have reached boiling point after reports have surfaced that prominent human rights activist, president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and 2011 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award winner Nabeel Rajab was brutally beaten and injured during his participation in a peaceful protest. Bahrain has exploded with calls for the immediate release of Nabeel Rajab with opposition group Al Wefaq condemning the incident and demanding an apology along side his release.

We have just received the Public Statement released by the Innocence Project UK, based at Bristol University, concerning issues around the Criminal Cases Review Commission. We have been aware for some time that there has been a sense of conflict between the CCRC and INUK where indeed there should be none. Our opinion of this conflict is that INUK works and seeks to represent people who are wrongly imprisoned and gain justice for them whilst the CCRC maintains a bureaucracy of law which consistently fails to deliver justice to some of the most vulnerable members of society; those imprisoned by the weight and power of the legal establishment despite fatally eroded evidence. These are not the words that INUK would use as they have a duty, which they take very seriously, to serve the best interests of the law and thereby speak only in measured terms. After having spent some years covering miscarriage of justice cases, listening to testimony, witnessing the judiciary throw out appeals in order to maintain the dignity of their office rather than that of the law and watching as the CCRC fail consistently to take up the cause of those protesting innocence, we do not feel obliged to sugar the pill in any way whatsoever.

I am an international law student doing my LLM degree at Cardiff University.

Although the main focus in my current studies is a commercial field of law, I have

always been interested in human rights as it is often the case that a lot of people

across the world are unaware of their basic human rights or they have no idea how to

protect them if they are violated.

When thinking about my further education and future career path at school, it

was quite difficult for me to make up my mind. The only thing that I knew for sure

Only three weeks following the release of the Bahrain Independent Commission Report, that highlighted the systematic cruel oppression faced by Bahraini protesters, hundreds have again flooded the streets of Bahrain in a peaceful attempt to showcase their anger and frustration towards the continuing abuses drowning the nation.

Only three weeks following the release of the Bahrain Independent Commission Report, that highlighted the systematic cruel oppression faced by Bahraini protesters, hundreds have again flooded the streets of Bahrain in a peaceful attempt to showcase their anger and frustration towards the continuing abuses drowning the nation.

The highly anticipated independent commission investigation report was released with an air mixed with anxiety, dread and a great deal of criticism. Many were unable to comprehend any good coming from a commission appointed by the King of Bahrain and skepticism spread throughout the nation. The world kept a close eye on the development of the report and on Wednesday the 23rd of November the eyes of the international media shifted towards the tiny gulf kingdom.

A rose placed on the doorstep of their enemies, both arms outstretched above their heads and crouched on the ground whilst teargas, rubber bullets and sound grenades flood the area. A chopper circulates above the high mounted statue of a Pearl locating and targeting protesters with live ammunition whilst giving location information to troops on the ground dispersing activists all around the capital.

Almost ten months after the instigation of the largely successful revolution of Egypt, protesters have flooded the streets of Tahrir Square the main focal point of the uprising. This move sparked a violent crackdown by the Egyptian military and police who responded by firing mountains of teargas and rubber bullets relentlessly submerging the square in clouds of fire and smoke.