The outcry over the death sentence of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has put renewed focus on Iran's legal system. Tonight we will be discussing what happens to Iran's prisoners and hearing from Cindy Hickey, the mother of freelance journalist Shane Bauer who has been held without charge in the notorious Evin prison since July last year.

On Friday Rebecca Peyton will be performing her one woman show about her sister BBC journalist Kate Peyton who was murdered in Mogadishu in 2005. A great opportunity to catch this acclaimed show before she heads off to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. On Sunday watch investigative journalist and media analyst Danny Schechter's take on Wall Street and the economic disaster of 2007 in The Crime of Our Time.

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Focus on Iran: Detainment and conviction

Wed 21 Jul, 7pm
Price: £12.50 (Early Booking £10)
With Cindy Hickey, mother of freelance journalist Shane Bauer who has been imprisoned in Iran since July 2009; Sina Motallebi, BBC Persian TV head of output and author of one of Iran's first blogs Rooznegar who was detained 23 days in solitary confinement in Iran and Drewery Dyke, Amnesty International's Iran researcher.

Rebecca Peyton: 'Sometimes I laugh like my sister'

Fri 23 Jul, 7pm
Price: £12.50 (Early Booking £10)

On 10 February 2005 BBC journalist Kate Peyton was murdered in Mogadishu, Somalia. Kate Peyton's younger sister Rebecca Peyton will perform her one-woman show, which invites us into her post-Kate world: a life that is changed forever, but it goes on.

Sunday Screening - Plunder: The crime of our time

Sun 25 Jul, 4pm
Price: £10 (Early Booking £8)

With interviews with bankers, respected economists, insiders, top journalists, and even convicted white-collar criminal Sam Antar, who blows the whistle on intentionally dishonest practices. Plunder is a definitive look at how we came to be in this mess told through the mouths of some of those who helped create it.

Israel and Palestine: Combatants for Peace

Wed 28 Jul, 7pm
Price: £12.50 (Early Booking £10)

Can Israelis and Palestinians work together for peace? Four men who believe that they can will be at the Frontline Club to describe their journeys from division and violence towards non-violence.

THIRD PART EVENT: Somalia on the brink - again

Thur 29 Jul, 7pm
FREE

With just a few months to run on the mandate of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG), can international policy makers find the right strategy to set the country on the road to recovery after decades of turmoil?

NEW - Screening: Dirty Oil

Fri 30 Jul, 7pm
Price: £10 (Early Booking £8)

Followed by a Q&A with Producer Mark Cranwell and Chris Shearlock, environment manager of The Co-operative Group
Told through the eyes of scientists, "big oil" officials, politicians, doctors, environmentalists, and aboriginal citizens affected by "the largest industrial project on the planet today", the filmmakers journey to both sides of the border to uncover the emotional and irreversible impact of this "black gold rush" on our planet.

Screenings

July

Sun 25/7/10 4pm
Screening - Plunder: The Crime of Our Time
Mon 30/7/10 7pm
Screening - Dirty Oil

August

Mon 5/8/10 7pm
Screening - Africa's Last Taboo
Fri 9/8/10 7pm
Screening - India's Forgotten Women
Fri 13/8/10 7pm
Screening - American: The Bill Hicks Story
Mon 16/8/10 7pm
Screening: Made in Pakistan
Fri 20/8/10 7pm
Screening - Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech
Mon 23/8/10 7pm
Screening - 1968

Talks

Wed 21/7/10 7pm
Focus on Iran: Detainment and conviction
Wed 28/7/10 7pm
Israel Palestine: Combatants for Peace
Thu 29/7/10 7pm
Third party event: Somalia on the brink - again