There is a world of difference between sexists and bigots who believe religion gives them the go ahead to think that gays are perverts and unveiled women whores and a state that puts those beliefs into laws, under which gays are executed and badly veiled women are fined, imprisoned or have acid thrown in their faces by Hezbollah and Basiji thugs. When this is the case, speaking of personal beliefs is at best misleading.

A journey in the war-torn heartland of Turkish Kurdistan. Kurds in Turkey faced one of the most brutal of oppressions, after the military coup of 1980. Hundreds of Kurdish people, among them a large number of intellectuals, were tortured in Diyarbakir – recognised as the capital of the Kurds – prison. By Shirvan Nuray Sarikaya.

After dedicating decades of their labour in unventilated rooms full of fumes and solvent; enduring forced overtime and below-minimum wage pay; incurring injuries and lung diseases; and undergoing the abuse of their managers, these workers found themselves padlocked out of their factory. It turned out that Cort had moved its operations overseas, for much cheaper and non-unionised labour in Chinese and Indonesian factories.

Mahmood Mamdani has chosen to act as an apologist for the Sudanese regime, to stifle progress towards justice, and to stand up for some of the world’s worst human rights abusers. One wishes he could have used his intellect in the service of a better cause. Book review by Joshua F Leach.

They keep praying beneath the hanger gate, at the very border of Europe. Hangar of Hal Far is a series of images that documents the lives of these people, stranded in the middle of the Mediterranean. Reportage by Martin Edström.

Police violence in Germany. Activists had been claiming for years that German policemen used arbitrary and excessive violence at demonstrations, that people who brought charges against officers often had to face charges themselves. Report by Lalon Sander.

Who is investing in Burma or Sudan; who is wearing the soft cotton t-shirt that is stained with the blood of 200,000 schoolchildren of Uzbekistan; who is driving on Saudi oil; who is buying gas from Turkmenistan; who considers Morocco an economic partner.

The West must not validate a dictator by buying gas or other resources from him; but instead make him understand that gas purchases are based solely on the democratisation process and on improvements in the human rights situation.

Greece gives refugee status to 0.05% of asylum seekers after a first interview and recently abolished meaningful appeals… Yet, EU member states continue to return migrants, asylum seekers, and even unaccompanied children to Greece, simply pretending that everything is perfectly fine.

As there was no UN mandated arms embargo, there were plenty of countries willing to keep supplying Burma’s newly enriched generals. China, Russia, Israel, Ukraine and others ensured Burma’s enlarged military was equipped with modern weaponry, paid for largely by Western investment.