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Human rights groups say torture widespread in Palestinian jails
Karin Laub And Dalia Nammari, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALEM, West Bank – Majdi Jabour was beaten to the point of passing out by the Fatah-allied interrogators in the West Bank who accused him of
Read More »Amnesty claims its website is being blocked
JOURNALISTS working from the Olympics press centre in Beijing are unable to access amnesty.org, the Amnesty International website, the organisation claimed today. A number of other websites are also reported to have been blocked,
Read More »Rights Groups: Peacekeepers Not Doing Enough for Darfur Civilians
By Tendai Maphosa | A report by a group of African human rights agencies says the joint African Union – United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan’s Darfur region is not providing sufficient protection to
Read More »Should we trust DNA?
SFGate | The role of DNA testing in the justice system has seemed unassailable – who can argue with the odds of two people sharing the same genetic markers being, in some cases, as
Read More »Climate Camp Is Back!
By Joss Garman | It provoked an absolute storm. CNN’s ticker screamed that Britain was ‘under siege’ from environmental activists. Sky News dubbed it ‘the world’s most organised protest’ and the New Statesman ‘the
Read More »Trading away the Planet for Profits
By Joseph Zacune | During the climate talks in Bali last December, NASA scientist James Hansen presented new data showing that serious climate change impacts are already happening more rapidly and at lower global
Read More »Justice report faults illegal use of politics in hiring federal prosecutors, judges
RAW STORY | A new Justice Department report concludes that politics illegally influenced the hiring of career prosecutors and immigration judges, and largely lays the blame on top aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Read More »The Systematic Destruction of Voting Rights
By Heidi Stevenson | You might think you have the right to vote. You might think your vote counts. You might think that there’s a problem here or there, but that they’re the exceptions.
Read More »Make Small Changes in Your Diet to Dramatically Improve Your Health
How important is your diet to your overall health? A recent study suggests that a healthy diet can add as many as 14 years to your life. This mindset is largely ignored by most
Read More »The Bush Admin’s Biowarfare Agenda
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | When it comes to observing US and international laws, treaties and norms, the Bush administration is a serial offender. Since 2001, it’s: – spurned efforts for nuclear disarmament
Read More »GUIDE TO SOME OF BUSH REGIME CRIMES
Coercive interrogation Can any Bush officials be prosecuted for the policies that paved the way for secret imprisonment, rendition to other countries that torture, or American torture of terrorism suspects? These government lawyers and
Read More »MILITARY HEAVILY CENSORING PHOTOS OF THE WAR
By MICHAEL KAMBER and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD — The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them
Read More »British MPs ‘Misled’ Over Iraq Interrogation
MPs and peers have said they may have been misled over UK troops’ use of banned interrogation methods in Iraq. Not all troops had known “conditioning” techniques such as hooding and sleep deprivation were
Read More »Lawyer asks Taoiseach for information on CIA flights
THE LAWYER representing a British resident detained in Guantánamo Bay has written to Taoiseach Brian Cowen seeking information on CIA flights involved in his client’s “extraordinary rendition” which landed in Shannon in 2002 and
Read More »Pakistani journalist in US jail on terrorism charges
WASHINGTON: Nayyar Zaidi, the well-known US-based Pakistani-American journalist, who has been a citizen of the United States for more than 30 years has been in US custody for the last four months on what
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