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Federal suit charges Rumsfeld authorized detainee torture Four Afghans and four Iraqis have sued US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in federal court in Chicago, the city of his principal residence, for implementing interrogation policies that resulted in their torture at the hands of US military forces. The case was filed on behalf of these plaintiffs on March 1 by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First, until recently known as Lawyers for Human Rights....
Posted: Tue, Mar 8, 2005 6:32am PST
European Court Rules Against Moscow, In Favour Of Chechen Civilians A ruling in favour of Chechen civilians who say the Russian government infringed their human rights sets a strong legal precedent....
Posted: Fri, Mar 4, 2005 11:41pm PST
Tasers and Our Fight Against Police Brutality Tasers may save some lives, but seem to increase police brutality....
Posted: Fri, Mar 4, 2005 1:36pm PST
Indonesian Airline Not Cooperating with Investigation of Activist's Death The Indonesian national airline Garuda needs to cooperate fully
with the investigation into the death of Munir, Human Rights
First said today. One of Indonesia's leading human rights
activists, Munir died of arsenic poisoning on a Garuda flight to
Amsterdam six months ago. He was on his way to begin a master¿s
program in international law...
Posted: Thu, Mar 3, 2005 9:27am PST
Who Killed Hariri? All eyes on Syria, none on Israel None of this is in Syria’s interest. Not only does the assassination serve key Israeli/ American demands that Syria withdraw and Hizbullah be neutralised, but it also provides an excellent pretext for an attack on Syria itself. And it fits with the probable upcoming (American or Israeli) strike on Iranian military sites: one of the places that Iran will want to retaliate is via Hizbullah against Israel. Good idea to get Hizbullah out of the way before this.
It goes without saying that Ame...
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2005 4:10pm PST
Nepal: Security Forces 'Disappear' Hundreds of Civilians Nepal: Security Forces 'Disappear' Hundreds of Civilians
King's Putsch Unleashes Abusive Army
(Kathmandu, March 1, 2005) -- The Royal Nepalese Army, which assisted King Gyanendra’s February 1 seizure of power, is responsible for a widespread pattern of enforced disappearances, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Human Rights Watch called on the king and the army to immediately end the practice of “disappearances” and to take concrete steps to hold perpetrators accounta...
Posted: Tue, Mar 1, 2005 5:20pm PST
Padilla Decision Sends Clear Message that Bush Administration is Not Beyond the Law Amnesty International USA: Padilla Decision Sends Clear Message that Bush Administration is Not Beyond the Law...
Posted: Mon, Feb 28, 2005 9:53pm PST
BTL:Bush Pick for Intelligence Czar Turned Blind Eye Toward U.S.-Backed... ...Death Squads In Honduras~ Interview with Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst with the National Security Archive, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sat, Feb 26, 2005 6:27am PST
Juanita Young Continues to Face "Criminal Trespass" Charges; Upcoming Court Date After one charge was dropped, two bogus
trespass charges still stand and continue to be part of an escalating pattern of
harassment Juanita and her family have suffered at the hands of the NYPD since
Juanita began to expose the cover-up surrounding the point-blank execution of her
son in March 2000 by a NYPD Street Crimes Unit officer, and especially because
Juanita Young emerged as a powerful voice against police brutality and social
injustice....
Posted: Fri, Feb 25, 2005 6:02pm PST
U.S. Citizen Jailed in Saudi Arabia Without Charge Now Accused Of Plotting to Kill Bush We take a look at the case of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the U.S. citizen who spent nearly two years in a Saudi prison where he says he was tortured before being returned to the United States. He now stands accused of plotting to kill the president. We speak with one of his lawyers and a family friend....
Posted: Fri, Feb 25, 2005 5:05pm PST
FBI groups Anarchist Black Cross with al Qaeda In Testimony to Congress a week ago, Robert Mueller, the FBI head, listed anarchist groups, specifically the Anarchist Black Cross Federation, with ELF and animal rights groups, to be among groups presenting a threat on the level of the al Qaeda network...
Posted: Fri, Feb 25, 2005 10:20am PST
Looking At The US From Egypt: An embattled democracy The conviction of civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart signals that America's democratic space is shrinking. Sharif Koddous reports from New York...
Posted: Thu, Feb 24, 2005 6:16pm PST
LAC Condemns Judge's Cancellation of 2/11 Hearing LABOR ACTION COMMITTEE TO FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL (LAC) CONDEMNS JUDGE DEMBE'S CANCELLATION OF FEB. 11TH HEARING...
Posted: Wed, Feb 23, 2005 11:29am PST
PDC demands: "Fight the Frame-up of Lynne Stewart, PDC Denounces Government Conspiracy Against Everyone's Rights, Demands:
"Fight the Frame-up of Lynne Stewart,
Mohamed Yousry and Ahmed Abdel Sattar!"...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 3:32pm PST
From Lynne Stewart to Ward Churchill: Shock and Awe on Civil Liberties NICOLE COLSON: February 18, 2005...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 10:55am PST
Ambassador of Torture: Bush Nominates Negroponte for Intel Czar
The Ambassador of Torture: Bush Nom As President Bush nominates Ambassador John Negroponte, current U.S. ambassador to Iraq, as the first Director of National Intelligence, we look back at Negroponte's bloody history in Central America in the 1980s....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 9:22am PST
Direct Deception Dollar Action At a Store Near You 
An observed direct action against yet another corporate / government lie....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 12:45am PST
Outsourcing Torture: The Secret History of America's "Extraordinary Rendition" Journalist Jane Mayer outlines her major new article in The New Yorker on the practice known as "extraordinary rendition," where prisoners, such as Maher Arar, are shipped to countries known for their poor human rights records and history of torture....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 8:00pm PST
Nepal: A long ignored human rights crisis now on the brink of catastrophe (Delhi) A human rights catastrophe is looming in Nepal following the declaration of the state of emergency by King Gyanendra on 1 February, declared Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 6:30am PST
Nepal: Amnesty International requests urgent audience with King An Amnesty International mission has arrived in Nepal and has said that the initial picture of the situation in Nepal is one of heightened uncertainty, insecurity and fear, in the aftermath of the declaration of the state of emergency and an upcoming nationwide ‘bandh’ (strike)....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 11:30pm PST
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