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28 January 2011

Where torture goes (almost) unpunished

Indonesian soldiers accused of posting torture videos on YouTube receive jail sentences for “disobey

By Sholto Byrnes

On a recent post, one commenter asked why I bothered writing about the “piffling matter” of the Quran-hating Pastor Terry Jones being banned from coming into the UK. Shouldn’t I be drawing attention to what’s been happening in Belarus, instead?

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