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RIDE WITH ME | Kirkus Reviews
by Lucy Keating ‧ Charlie Owens’ part-time gig for a local ride-share app puts her on the path to self-discovery and an unlikely relationship. The Backseat app is a convenient way for Charlie to make money. She regularly picks up riders while maintaining her top-notch driver rating.
Reign of terror in Maikelawi detention centre
An artist’s impression of Maikelawi detention centre Maikelawi is a police detention facility in the centre of the Ethiopian capital. It is mentioned time and again in any conversation about human rights abuses. For the Ethiopians’ it is the ‘African Guantanamo Bay’. Arbitrary detention and torture According to opposition members it is mostly political opponents who are taken to the police’s Central Investigation Centre in Maikelawi.
Allegations against British forces
Three reports contained in the war logs detail allegations of British abuses of Iraqi detainees during the summer of 2008. The first, dated June 23, chronicles the detention five days previously of a Shia Iraqi male in his thirties who is considered to be a “possible insurgent”. Arrested in southern Iraq, where British troops were based, the man claims to have been punched in the face, kicked and struck with a weapon to the chest.
Aid as a weapon of political oppression in the Southern Regions
Perched in the arid south east of the country, the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region (SNNPR) is an area notorious for its precarious harvest. Green famine Although the rains have now come, the lush green fields belie a terrible hunger. The rains came late and the crops are not yet ready to harvest. The region is heavily dependent on foreign aid, but according to many of the people the Bureau spoke to, aid is not getting through.
Tory tax breaks for the wealthy
Conservative tax reductions for corporations but not for ‘squeezed middle’ Flick/Images_of_Money The Bureau has analysed tax changes introduced under the Coalition government and found that much of the Treasury’s activity has focused on offering tax reductions to the wealthiest sections of society. Corporation tax reduction In his first budget, George Osborne announced a 5% cut to the main rate of corporation tax from 28% to 23% phased over four years.
UK’s top spies approved export of surveillance technology to Iran
GCHQ: Britain’s eyes and ears. Top UK spies approved the sale of a software system to Iran that allows the geographic tracking of mobile phones. The system was developed by Surrey-based Creativity Software and sold to MTN Irancell. In March 2009 the National Technical Authority for Information Assurance, a branch of the GCHQ, was given access to the system. The system was to be sold to MTN Irancell, the second largest mobile phone operator in Iran.
Surveillance: A thriving British industry
Spying in Britain The country that created James Bond also produces some of the best spying technology – and the capabilities of this technology exceeds anything Bond’s gadget master Q could dream up. Britain’s surveillance industry is thriving. But this is thanks in part to sales of products that have ended up being used by regimes with questionable human rights records, such as Iran, Indonesia, Mubarak’s Egypt, Saudi Arabia and even Syria.
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