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• Life on the fringe: play about female prisoners to hit stage in Edinburgh

  26-07-2015 17:12
  
  Key Change tells the stories of women behind bars after working with female prisoners to create hard-hitting production that looks behind the mugshotsA hard-hitting production exploring the troubled lives of female prisoners – developed by inmates of HMP Low Newton – will make its national debut at the Edinburgh festival fringe.The play, titled Key Change, was put together by about 10 prisoners and community theatre group Open Clasp over four months. It draws on the women’s own stories to
  
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• Leaving human rights convention could start domino effect, Britain warned

  26-07-2015 17:00
  
  Albie Sachs, one of South Africa’s most respected lawyers and judges, says country that was founder of the European court ‘could become the dismantler’Britain’s exit from the European convention on human rights could trigger the disintegration of respect for international law, the prominent South African jurist Albie Sachs has warned.The veteran lawyer and ANC activist, who was appointed by Nelson Mandela to the country’s highest court, has sounded the alarm over the potential domino e
  
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