RT | February 9, 2016 Britain has refused to sign up to a UN agreement on protecting schools in wartime, which has been signed by 51 states, despite the fact it was drawn up by a former UK military officer. The agreement was championed by the UN children’s fund UNICEF to protect schools from attack during […]
Maya Foa, head of the death penalty team at Reprieve, said that Hammond was ‘alarmingly misinformed’ about the mass executions’ and that ‘By refusing to condemn these executions and parroting the Saudi’s propaganda, labelling those killed as terrorists, Mr Hammond is coming dangerously close to condoning Saudi Arabia’s approach.’
By T D Rogers
Evolve POLITICS
Reprieve | January 25, 2015 The Foreign Secretary refused to contact the Ethiopian government to protest its abduction of a British man, it’s emerged, despite warnings from Foreign Office (FCO) staff that the man was at risk of execution. Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege, a father of three from London, was abducted in Yemen and rendered to […]
