A prisoner of conscience in Cambodia is set free. But that does not mean the country is becoming any more welcoming of dissent.
Pamela Yates, director of the new film, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, and a documentary filmmaker with Skylight Pictures, believes taking a film about war crimes prosecution to the Academy Awards could help elevate human rights causes in the West.
An incendiary political mystery which began in the Lebanese Civil War may be revealed during this month's transformation of Libya. Many in Lebanon are aiming to find out what happened to Lebanese Shiite rebel leader Musa al-Sadr when he went missing in Libya in 1978.