If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Audio Interview: Palestinian Children in Israeli Jails
Stefan Christoff, The Electronic Intifada, 20 May 2006. [Hat tip: Robin]
Listen to an interview with Ayed Abu Eqtaish, a child rights activist from [...]

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The Palestinian sisters, mothers, wives and daughters of Palestinian prisoners are all saying:

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What can go worse than what we went through? NOTHING!
They want to shoot us? They already did…
They will occupy the land? It is already occupied…
They will cut our food and water supply? We [...]

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New York, May 31, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the sentencing Tuesday of two Jordanian editors to two months in prison for publishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Jihad Momani, former editor-in-chief of the weekly Shihan, and Hashem al-Khalidi, editor-in-chief of the weekly Al-Mehwar, were found guilty by an [...]

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Dear friends,
As I have been repeating over and over, the situation here is moving rapidly downhill. The most recent hostage-taking in Jericho by Israel is just one more notch downward. Today’s Israeli military attack (as I write) on Jenin, AGAIN!!!!, is another. Olmert’s statement 2 days ago that the [...]

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Israeli aggression, American/British betrayal… Nothing new!
Another act of aggression by the Israeli state, emboldened by western governments’ hostility to Hamas.
Al-Jazeera broadcasted footage of a brutal Israeli raid on a prison in the Palestinian town of Jericho; while BBC and western media focus on the reaction of the Palestinian street, as expected.
Israeli forces hit Jericho prison [...]

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A reader email:
The recent calls by the United Nations Human Rights Council and Secretary General Kofi Anan to immediately shutdown NAZI CAMP - GUANTANAMO BAY PRISON CAMP was a necessary step which should have been carried out against illegal invasion of IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN and now illegal invasion plans into other countries like IRAN, SYRIA, [...]

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World Bank uses The Wall to construct an imprisoned Palestinian Free Trade Area
by Lisa Dobias and Bailey Malone
World Bank’s most recent report on Palestine lays out plans to use the apartheid infrastructure of the Wall to construct “free market” industrial zones along the containment barrier. The Bank proposes Israeli military checkpoint gates along the Wall [...]

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Reuters Alertnet:
A third of all prisoners in Jordan have been jailed without formal charges or facing a trial, a prominent Jordanian human rights body said on Thursday.
The report, drawn up by the state-financed National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) said some of the 2,884 inmates mentioned in the report have been in prison without charges [...]

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The United States has tied with Myanmar (the former Burma) for sixth place among countries that are holding the most journalists behind bars, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Each country is jailing five journalists. The United States is holding four Iraqi journalists in detention centers in Iraq and one [...]

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A Libyan court has sentenced, Abd al-Raziq al-Mansuri, an Internet journalist to one-and-a-half years in prison after he published articles critical of the government, Human Rights Watch said. The sentence is an apparent attempt by the government to silence free speech and dissenting views.
Abd al-Raziq wrote some 50 articles and commentaries critical of Libyan society [...]

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Is it ever right for Americans to inflict cruel and degrading treatment on suspected terrorist detainees?
From Joseph Farah’s - Christian wimps:
“We read credible reports - some from FBI agents - that prisoners have been stripped naked, sexually humiliated, chained to the floor and left to defecate on themselves,” he writes. “These and other practices like [...]

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CFL ALERT: OPPOSE THE TORTURE OF DETAINEES IN IRAQ: ASK YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO SUPPORT THE MCCAIN AMENDMENT.

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Authorities Should Promptly Provide Fair Trials, Reform of Repressive Laws
The Libyan Supreme Court�s reported decision on Sunday to retry 86 political prisoners is a hopeful sign of reform, Human Rights Watch said today. These Muslim Brotherhood members have served seven years in prison for nonviolent activities after being convicted by a now-closed tribunal that violated [...]

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SEND OUR PREWRITTEN LETTER NOW:
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/CFLWeb/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1060

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SEND YOUR PREWRITTEN LETTER NOW, OR WRITE YOUR OWN:
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/CFLWeb/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1019

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Lawyers for the US Defense Department are refusing to cooperate with a federal judge’s order to release secret photographs and videotapes related to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.

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(AFP) DAMASCUS - A 17-year-old accused of ties to a banned Islamist group in Syria was sentenced to six years in prison by a state security court on Sunday, according to a human rights lawyer.
Massaab Hariri was initially sentenced to death for allegedly belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, “but the court commuted the death sentence [...]

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That is the plea of the 408 Moroccan prisoners of war currently held by the Polisario Front in the Western Sahara. With many having been incarcerated for over two decades, they are currently the longest-serving POWs in the world. Six recently released POWs who met with The Washington Times told their tragic tales of torture, [...]

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Received by email (exposeaipac@gmail.com):
We appeal to activists everywhere to hold the media in this country accountable for not reporting what everyone else in the world is reporting. It’s a shame that the following story is headline news in all of the Israeli media outlets and that not a single American newspaper finds this news [...]

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A court on Tuesday postponed the trial of nine Libyan policemen and a physician charged with torturing Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to extract confessions. The defendants are charged with torturing the nurses and doctor to make them confess they deliberately infected hundreds of Libyan children with HIV in a hospital in the eastern [...]

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