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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 [...] Once a year there is one day set aside that does not derive from a particular religious perspective such as Christmas, nor from a particular social outlook such as Labour Day, nor from any organized commercial celebration such as Mothers’ Day. There is one day in which every Canadian is bound to his fellow citizens through [...] Polanski belongs in prison and France should be apologizing to the world for harbouring this pedophile for so long. It is not clear whether or not France offers safe-haven for all child rapists or only those who make films. One thing is sure. If you’re planning on raping a child pre-book your plane ticket for [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] There should be no surprise that self-loathing latent homosexual Mahmoud Ahmadinejad refuses to free the Iranian people. But it cannot all be left at the feet of this fellatious sociopath. The oppression of Persia springs from the diseased minds of the small cult of Ayatollahs who hallucinate that they are actually hearing God direct them to [...] Sunday May 17, 2009 Andrew Bartholomew Chaplin BY E-MAIL: c…@parl.gc.ca RE: Temporary Foreign Workers I write on my own behalf and represent no client or interest other than myself as an individual. I have followed the work of the Committee in some detail. [...] |
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