Anthony Romero: When evidence about torture is suppressed as 'contraband information', let's not pretend that the US is dispensing justice
Denis MacShane: Criticism of human rights abuses in other countries is often highly selective, but the UK's reticence on Ukraine is peculiar
James Ball: To block even one high-profile filesharing website would quickly require apparatus as sophisticated as the great firewall of China
Michael Mansfield: We need greater clarity on when the use of 'kettling' is permitted before people's freedom to protest is severely curtailed
Bernard Harcourt: Recent supreme court hearings sum up the US polity's central contradiction: liberty is sacrosanct for the market, not the citizen
Isabel HiltonL The activist who escaped from house arrest is likely to be a continuing thorn in the Communist party's side
Amy Goodman: The NSA, which dwarfs the CIA, is so powerful that those with oversight are too intimidated to check its incursions on liberty
Afua Hirsch: It is not yet clear the $50m process of obtaining the conviction for abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone has been vindicated
Michael Ratner: The US government's suppression of all accountability and transparency in prosecuting the WikiLeaks suspect is totalitarian
George Monbiot: New evidence of British colonial atrocities has not changed our national ability to disregard it
