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Carlyle, Gabriel

Shock and Awe

by Gabriel Carlyle | Feature | February 2013

PN’s Gabriel Carlyle reports on the sometimes shambolic, always peaceful and often heroic resistance to the tree-felling in Combe Haven for the Hastings-Bexhill Link Road, and the lessons learned.

How (not) to burn out

by Emily Johns and Gabriel Carlyle | Feature | July-August 2012

PN staff spend a week in tents in howling winds and driving rain on the edge of Dartmoor and return tranquil

Legal action stops Afghan torture transfers

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | June 2012

Even as Afghanistan introduces its own system of internment – and the UK seeks to circumvent high court restrictions aimed at preventing the torture of detainees – activists and lawyers in the UK have succeeded in temporarily halting the transfer of prisoners from British forces to the Afghan secret police.