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What is Jailbreak and why are we taking part?
- Student Hub
- February 21, 2019, 22:00
What is Jailbreak? Jailbreak is Ireland’s largest student-run fundraiser, now in its 7th year running. All proceeds of the charity event are split b(...)

Egypt executes nine over public prosecutor’s killing
- Africa
- February 20, 2019, 20:09
Egyptian authorities executed nine men convicted over the 2015 killing of the country’s chief prosecutor on Wednesday amid a surge in the number of d(...)

Justice elusive for victims of Ukraine’s Maidan massacre
- Europe
- February 20, 2019, 17:53
Ukraine has been lambasted for failing to achieve justice for more than 100 protesters killed during its Maidan revolution, which reached its bloody c(...)

Death row miscarriage case puts spotlight on Japanese justice
- Asia-Pacific
- February 19, 2019, 01:00
Iwao Hakamada (82) spends a lot of time in the neat apartment he shares with his sister gazing out the window. After 48 years in jail, most of it in s(...)

Turkey issues over 1,000 arrest warrants for Gulenist suspects
- Europe
- February 12, 2019, 16:08
Turkey has issued arrest warrants for a further 1,112 people with suspected connections to the outlawed Gulenist movement, as the impact of the 2016 f(...)

A refugee footballer has been freed by Thailand and left on a flight to Australia after prosecutors said they were no longer seeking his extradition t(...)

Jehovah’s Witness handed 6-year jail term for practising his religion in Russia
- Europe
- February 6, 2019, 18:02
A court in western Russia handed a Danish citizen a six-year prison term on Tuesday for practising his religion as a Jehovah’s Witness. Dennis Christ(...)

‘Widespread bullying’ of staff identified at Amnesty International
- UK
- February 6, 2019, 11:30
Amnesty International has a “toxic” working environment, with widespread bullying, public humiliation, discrimination and other abuses of power, a rep(...)

Italy asks Sudanese officials to testify in mistaken identity case
- Europe
- February 5, 2019, 17:46
Italian prosecutors have invited two high-ranking Sudanese officials to Sicily to testify in a case against a suspected human trafficker who appears t(...)

European Parliament recognises Guaidó as Venezuelan interim president
- World
- January 31, 2019, 15:16
The European Parliament has recognised Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó as de facto head of state, heightening pressure on Nicolás Maduro, am(...)