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POPSGordon Brown boycotting EU-Africa summit in Lisbon British Prime Minisrter Gordon Brown is boycotting the EU Africa summit this weekend because of Zimbabwe's poor human rights record. It is good to see political leaders taking a principled stand for human rights, and it would be nice to see more do so. Unfortunately, however, Mr Brown's stand is somewhat hypocritical, as he is still in favour of introducing 90-day detention into Britain. When Tony Blair tried to inrtroduce 90-day detention two years ago some Labour MPs, to their credit, rebelled and blocked it. No kudos, however, to the British media, which continually rederred to Mr Blair as occupying the "moral high ground" on the issue. If that is so, the ground Mr Mugabe occupies must be stratospheric.
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