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by Amnesty International Urgent Action Network 11 December 2009 Journalist Ma’an ‘Aqel was arrested on 22 November in the Syrian capital, Damascus. He is now held incommunicado, putting him at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. Ma’an ‘Aqel writes for the state-owned newspaper al-Thawra. He was arrested at the newspaper’s office in Damascus. Three days later, State [...] 10 December 2009 by Amnesty International Urgent Action Network Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist, has been sentenced to six years, three months and one day’s imprisonment for charges related to her peaceful exercise of her rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly. She remains free on bail, pending an appeal against her conviction and sentence, but [...] A “rogue nation” is one which shows willful disregard for international law and which flouts calls for action by the international community as futile. A rogue nation, quite simply, is one that sees itself as above any law that does not serve its own objectives, regardless how strongly those objectives offend morality, dignity, human rights [...] By Amnesty International Urgent Action Network Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist arrested on 30 June, is being held without charge in Evin prison, in Iran’s capital, Tehran, where she is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. She is a prisoner of conscience, held solely for the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of [...] Defending human rights is not only the right thing to do, it is the right-wing thing. I sense that some people have allowed a purely semantic issue to govern their response to substance. The language of “human rights” has been adapted and interpreted to mean almost anything anyone wants it to mean. The old Soviet Union claimed the [...] Below is a communication from the Friends of Burma announcing the issuance of a Temporary Residency for Nay Myo Hein, preventing his return to the Burmese tyranny. I want to commend the government and particularly Minister Kenney who chose to exercise the Ministerial Discretion with which he is entrusted on behalf of Canadians. This was a [...] The following letter was posted to the official Ministerial Contact Site located at http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/abt/electronic-eng.aspx Friday August 14, 2009. To: The Honourable Peter Van Loan Protect the Weak Dear Minister, I have been proud that Canada has shown leadership in recognizing the brutality and illegality of the illegitimate tyranny currently gripping Burma. Indeed our Government [...] A man named Ezra Nawi, already in detention, is about to be jailed by the Israeli government. He has previously been detained and jailed for interfering with state-sanctioned actions such as bulldozing the homes of Palestinians. More recently he has been trying to prevent Israeli “settlers” from using intimidation and personal terrorism to keep Palestinian farmers [...] It’s remarkable. The Iranian tyranny over the Persian people seriously believes that official lies can be sustained. The notion of victory through active lying to the people is rooted in the hope that there are sufficient bands of population that do not now and will not later have easy access to external sources of information. For all intents [...] While the oppression in Iran captures the world’s concern, the Israeli government is quietly escaping notice of its bizarre “peace” policy. Benjamin Netanyahu made a formal statement of his position, which must be taken as the position of the Israeli people as it is after all a democracy, that peace will only come if there is [...] |
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