The UK started an inquiry in 2010 about how it handed over Libyan dissidents to Ghadhafi. Some of the answers turned out embarrassing, so it has buried the remaining part of the inquiry.

40 current and former staff of Australian immigration prisons signed a letter daring the state to prosecute them for continuing to talk about mistreatment of the prisoners that they have observed.

More about how this law blocks people from carrying out moral and legal duties.

The Australian government has some absurd excuse to claim these places are something other than prisons, but if it smells like a prison, feels like a prison, and tastes like a prison, I'm glad I didn't set foot in it.

It is still, on some occasions, legal to walk around in London carrying the flag of PISSI.

However, the person carrying it risks being arrested and imprisoned for the crime of being suspected.

China has rebuked the US for human rights violations, racial discrimination and callously strewing poverty.

A few of the points are exaggerated. For instance, shootings in schools are shocking but don't add up to a significant danger compared with other dangers such as car crashes. By contrast, violence against women by their spouses or lovers is a major social problem, but the government is not directly responsible for it; indeed, people are only exploring what sort of measures can put an end to it.

Nonetheless, the report amounts to a valid rebuke to the US. The fact that a similar report about China is even worse in many dimensions is not excuse for it.

Businesses evade blame for their practices by putting the blame on the technology they take advantage of.