..These are the seldom heard voices of the victims on the ‘war on terror’… we need to be listening…
By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net
In a development of far-reaching and frightening implications for the stature of the Indian judiciary, Bar Associations in several parts of the country are effectively banning advocates from defending Muslim youth branded as ‘terrorists’, [...]
I’m speechless. Simply without words to express the horror I feel as I read this article. No sight in one eye, the other is going, He grew up in a 6×8 cell alone. He’d just lost his father before he was taken… what do they expect him to do or say? His health is terrible [...]
Lecturers fear threat to academic freedom
Manual downloaded from US government website
Polly Curtis and Martin Hodgson
A masters student researching terrorist tactics who was arrested and detained for six days after his university informed police about al-Qaida-related material he downloaded has spoken of the “psychological torture” he endured in custody.
Despite his Nottingham University supervisors insisting the materials [...]
Hezbollah issued the following statement:
With regard to the release of a report by the US administration through which it gave itself the right to categorize peoples, states and movements, between those it calls moderates who are in harmony with its policies and schemes and those opposing it to preserve their rights and therefore [...]
From H. Candace Gorman
(Click Judge Bates Decision to read the judge’s order. Many thanks to Charles Gittings and the Project to enforce the geneva conventions (www. pegc. us / )for posting this so I could link to it… btw one of the many arguments the judge ignored was my geneva convention argument… the judge [...]
Women in Afghanistan have a 1 in 8 lifetime risk of maternal death. (By contrast: The rate in neighboring Pakistan is 1 in 74; the rate in Sweden is in in 17,400).
It’s like a perfect storm of right-wing policies: The War on Drugs, women’s liberation by way of imperialism, and “freedom” at the barrel of [...]
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The justice ministry and a human rights watchdog on Tuesday vehemently rejected allegations that a young Muslim couple jailed in Vienna was being held in the “Guantanamo of Austria. The pair was found guilty last month of involvement in a March 2007 video threatening Austria and Germany with attacks if they [...]
By Jason Leopold
On Jan. 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon’s top attorney. Attached to the classified document was a set of directives drafted [...]
By Robert Parry [...]
Gareth Peirce on the position of Muslims in BritainThe history of thirty years of conflict in Northern Ireland, as it is being written today, might give the impression of a steady progression towards an inevitable and just conclusion. The new suspect community in this country, Muslims, want to know whether their experience [...]
British journalist Yvonne Ridley, who converted to Islam after being captured by the Taliban, tells Asma Hanif that
oppression of Muslim women has to do with traditions rather than with Islam and explains why she became a Muslim.
It was Yvonne’s camera that betrayed her to the Taliban in September 2001, landing her in an Afghan cell [...]
by James Bovard
Many citizens react to their rulers like little kids who recognize that a stranger [...]
By Chuck Hamilton
Imagine yourself in a packed nightclub with a band and a large but empty dance floor. You’re sitting at a table with your friends. No one’s dancing. Suddenly you’re on a barstool in the middle of the otherwise empty dance floor. You’re painfully aware of everyone staring at your back. You realize you’re [...]
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