Daily Archives: April 24, 2009 »
Sri Lankan Humanitarian Crisis Deserves Attention
By Amitabh Pal | The United States is finally paying attention to the massive humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka. The civil war that has raged for a quarter-century and has claimed more than 70,000
Read More »Obama, Top Officials Unite Against Torture Probe
By by Jason Ditz | Top officials from both parties have spoken out against the notion of an independent probe into the Bush-era policies which led to the repeated torture of detainees, making the
Read More »Muslims in fear of police terror
Muslim leaders in Lancashire said on Thursday that the arrest, detention and subsequent release without charge of 12 people in police raids has created huge anxiety among the local community. Hundreds of armed police
Read More »Torture Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11
By MARJORIE COHN | When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties about Bush interrogation policies, Congressman Trent Franks (R-Ariz) stated that former
Read More »Street View nod prompts call for privacy watchdog reform
By Chris Williams | Frustrated by years of alleged intransigence in dealing with complaints about privacy-infringing new technologies, activists have called for politicians to investigate and reform the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). London-based pressure group
Read More »Rights group: Pentagon to release new prisoner abuse photos
WASHINGTON, April 24 (Xinhua) — The Pentagon will release “a substantial number” of new photos that show abuse of prisoners at U.S.-run prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, a civil rights group said Friday. The
Read More »Paying billions for our database state
It is cost rather than privacy concerns that will save us from Labour’s megalomaniac surveillance schemes – a point underlined this morning when David Cameron was interviewed on the Today programme. With the vast
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