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Bradley Manning’s “cruel and inhumane” imprisonment
After spending nine days in solitary confinement in a jail in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been released on bail. Meanwhile, Bradley Manning, the whistleblower behind WikiLeaks, sits in solitary confinement for the seventh month.
Kate Murphy

December 16, 2010
Jury Convicts Three in Post-Katrina Police Shooting
A federal jury has convicted three current or former New Orleans police officers in connection with the death of Henry Glover, a 31-year old man who was shot by a police officer and died in custody shortly after Hurricane Katrina tore through Louisiana in 2005.
A.C. Thompson

December 10, 2010
The Race for Waste Space
Why worry about the next billion years when there’s money to be made right now in Texas?
Laray Polk

December 7, 2010
Fiji Water Relents
Fiji Water announced today that it will re-open its factory at 8 a.m. Wednesday, less than 48 hours after brusquely dismissing its Fijian workforce...
Anna Lenzer

November 30, 2010
Fiji Water Threatens to Shut Down Operations
Fiji Water announced today that it will close its operations in Fiji in response to a water extraction tax hike proposed by the Fijian government...
Anna Lenzer

November 29, 2010
Iranian Official Questions Whether US Hikers Are Spies
In an interview with NBC's Ann Curry this week, a top Iranian human rights official cast doubt on the charge that Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, the two Americans detained in Iran, are spies...
Esther Kaplan

November 21, 2010
Fiji’s PM Resigns — Due to Fiji Water Official
Fiji Water's top official in Fiji, Director of External Affairs David Roth, has left the island nation after the sudden resignation of acting Prime Minister Ratu Ganilau — who cited a "David Roth issue" as the reason for quitting...
Anna Lenzer

November 19, 2010
Trial Begins of Five NOPD Officers in Henry Glover Case
Check out the New Orleans Times-Picayune for coverage of the trial of the five NOPD officers who had a hand in the death of Henry Glover (and its coverup) in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The trial began on November 10.
Jayati Vora

November 12, 2010
Wikileaks Confirms: US Hikers, Detained by Iran, Were Arrested in Iraq
Wikileaks today made public a classified American military report that confirms that the American hikers detained by Iran were arrested in Iraq
Esther Kaplan

October 22, 2010
Bauer, Fattal to Face Trial in Iran
Cindy Hickey, the mother of Investigative Fund reporter Shane Bauer, who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than a year, told the AP today that Bauer and Josh Fattal, his hiking companion, will stand trial in Tehran on November 6...
Esther Kaplan

October 19, 2010
Diary of a Dobbs Story Gone Viral
Our Twitter feed has gone crazy. Romenesko, Olbermann, and David Carr are all tweeting it. The Huffingon Post has it front-paged; Politico calls it a "PR bomb" for Dobbs; Salon gleefully announces that Isabel Macdonald "nails [Dobbs] to the wall"...
Esther Kaplan

October 7, 2010
Cost of Dissent for Iranian Journalists
Though we are all too familiar with the repression reporters increasingly face in Iran, we were extremely troubled this week to hear that Hossein Derakhshan, an influential Iranian blogger, has been sentenced to nineteen and a half years in prison for his...
Marissa Colon-Margolies

September 30, 2010
Virginia to Execute Teresa Lewis, IQ 72
In January 2010, Investigative Fund reporter Renee Feltz wrote a shocking cover story for The Texas Observer revealing that the state of Texas has continued to send mentally retarded inmates to death row — despite a U.S. Supreme Court ban. Now, Virginia is about to execute 41-year-old Teresa Lewis, whose IQ is 72...
Jayati Vora

September 23, 2010
Sexual Abuse of Juvenile Inmates in Texas
Check out Laura Burke's probing cover story in The Texas Observer, "A Woman's Touch," about the prevalence of women staffers abusing juvenile inmates in Texan facilities.
Jayati Vora

September 22, 2010
Juárez Reporters Fight For Their Lives
On Sunday September 19th El Diaro de Juárez published an editorial entitled “Qué quieren de nosotros?” The editorial was an open letter to warring drug cartels...
Marissa Colon-Margolies

September 22, 2010
Investigative Fund Reporter Testifies Before Congress
Joshua Kors, an Investigative Fund reporter whose most recent article, "Disposable Soldiers," was published in The Nation in April 2010, testified before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs this morning.
Jayati Vora

September 15, 2010
Behind a Human Trafficking Investigation
On September 1, the Department of Justice leveled the largest human trafficking indictment in US history...
John Bowe

September 14, 2010
Shourd Released; Detention Extended for Bauer, Fattal
Some amazing news: Sarah Shourd, one of the Americans detained in Iran for more than thirteen months, was finally released today to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran...
Esther Kaplan

September 14, 2010
One American, Detained in Iran, Set for Release
The wire services are reporting that one of the three Americans detained in Iran since July 2009 will be released on Saturday in an act of clemency to mark the close of Ramadan...
Esther Kaplan

September 9, 2010
Iraq After Invasion Bloodiest Country for Journalists
Another journalist was gunned down in Iraq today, prominent Al-Iraqiya television anchor, Riad al-Saray. According to Iraqi police al-Saray was ambushed by gunmen using silencers outside his car. The Committee to Protect Journalists...
Marissa Colon-Margolies

September 7, 2010

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