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Olympics are a chance for China to shape up

Ming Campbell has written an article for The Guardian‘s Comment is Free site about China’s human rights record in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. China would win no medals for human rights. But things are still fluid, and there …

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We have a moral obligation to our Iraqi translators

Liberal Democrat Leader Ming Campbell has written to party members about the plight of Iraqi interpreters seeking asylum in the United Kingdom: The Government’s decision to review the cases of 91 Iraqi translators who have worked for the British may …

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Guantanamo release long overdue – Liberal Democrats

Sarah Teather, the Liberal Democrat MP who has campaigned for her constituent Jamil el-Banna to be released from Guantanamo Bay, today welcomed the news that he is among five people the Government has requested be released from the camp. Commenting, …

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Brown should be candid friend to the US

Commenting ahead of Gordon Brown’s first trip to Washington as Prime Minister, Liberal Democrat Leader Ming Campbell said: “There are three things which should be on Gordon Brown’s agenda when he meets President Bush: renegotiation of the one-sided extradition treaty; …

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Conservative commitment to equality ‘paper thin’

Eighty percent of the current Conservative Shadow Cabinet have voted against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) equality legislation, according to figures released on Friday by the Liberal Democrats. On the 40th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality, the party …

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