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Director of new Human Rights Group Equates UK Gov with Ministry of Magic

Posted by: Melissa

September 01, 2003, 11:34 AM

Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights pressure group Liberty, is interviewed by The Independent's Ben Russell. She equates the current 1984-like actions of the UK government not to the Orwellian book but to the recent portrayal of the Ministry of Magic in Book 5.

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