A prosecutor, who sent an innocent man to death row, now seeks redemption.

A retired executioner said taking the job was the “biggest mistake I ever made.”

Read about the conversion of some who have operated the machinery of death

See the speach by Stephen Cohen

Many westerners probably think about Thailand as a tourist paradise, but the human rights situation there is far from paradisal. Last year, Thailand’s military junta was reported to have blocked access to a human rights report. Now we read new allegations of torture in military custody. Amnesty International has voiced concerns for Thailand and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Read in The Guardian about Méxicoleaks or visit the Méxicoleaks web site (in Spanish).

We also congratulate Paul Craig Roberts for the International Award For Excellence In Journalism by the Press Club Of Mexico. Read his speach Truth Is Our Country.

Read on The Intercept how the FBI abused a young mentally ill man

With the USA apparently in control of much of Europe, their far-reaching surveillance of the population whose minds are influenced by an effective propaganda apparatus, the wars of aggression, western troops deployed on the eastern front in Ukraine and the concentration-camp-like Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, comparisons are made between the USA and Nazi Germany. Read what John Pilger writes about the rise of fascism.

Watch the video “suspected CIA agent recruited in Sweden, killed by al-Qaida” in Swedish on Aftonbladet’s website

The pleas by Amnesty International and many others were in vain. Saman Naseem was executed last month. According to Amnesty, he was earlier tortured to confess.