CounterCurrents 09 October, 2009 By The Brussels Tribunal MADRID: Today the Spanish Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pressure from powerful governments accused of grave crimes, will limit Spain’s laws of universal jurisdiction. Yesterday, ahead of the change of law, a legal case was filed at the Audiencia Nacional against four United States presidents and four United Kingdom prime ministers for commissioning, condoning and/or perpetuating multiple war crimes, crimes […]
29 Sep 09 - Former detainees at the Bagram detention centre north of Kabul claim that they have been abused. They say many of the interrogation techniques used in Guantanamo are also being used in Bagram, which holds about 600 prisoners. We look at the conditions and treatment of detainees inside Bagram. http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/is-bagram-the-new-guantanamo-by-andy-worthington/ Image: […]
AlJazeeraEnglish - 29 Sep 09 - The eyes of the Arab world and beyond are focused on debate at the UN Human Rights Council and whether it will agree that alleged war crimes in Gaza warrant criminal action. Richard Goldstone, a South African judge, led an investigation into the war on Gaza, which left more than 1,400 Palestinians dead, and his report said that there was clear evidence that crimes had been committed by both sides. Israel has dismissed the findings as politically motivated, but […]
4 mars 2009, Bruxelles Conférence de presse - Lancement du Tribunal Russell sur la Palestine Russell Tribunal Palestine envoyé par RussellTribunalPalestine
InternationalNews Le 7 septembre 2009 La chaîne britannique SkyNews a révélé le 1er septembre dernier que le nombre de bébés nés avec des malformations ne cessait d’augmenter de façon alarmante dans la région de Fallujah. Ce phénomène est attribué à l’utilisation d’armes de destruction massive, chimiques et radiologiques, interdites selon les conventions internationales, lors de l'attaque terroriste de grande ampleur par les troupes anglo-américaines en novembre 2004. Enfant iraqien victime […]
Occupation, BBC1 Dispatches: Children from the village of Aziz Abad talk about the friends and family they have lost. Some still think of the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan as a "good" war. They may change their minds after watching the latest Dispatches, Afghanistan's Dirty War. Last August, US troops went looking for Taliban insurgents in Aziz Abad, a small village 400 miles west of Kabul. After a brief firefight, they called in an air strike, whereupon an AC-130 gunship tore the village […]
Online JournalJul 20, 2009 By Mary Shaw Online Journal Contributing Writer A few years ago, British attorney Clive Stafford Smith spoke at an Amnesty International conference that I attended. Smith represents some Guantanamo prisoners, and he shared their horrible stories with us. One chilling example is the story of his client, Binyam Mohem, a Londoner who has since been released from Guantanamo: “They hung me up. I was allowed a few hours of sleep on the second day, then hung up again, […]
Report, DCI-Palestine16 June 2009 The following press release was issued on 11 June 2009: Today, DCI-Palestine is releasing a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force -- "Palestinian Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities." The release of the report comes just days after an article was published in The […]
CounterCurrents 17 June, 2009 By Jonathan Cook Nazareth: The rights of Palestinian children are routinely violated by Israel’s security forces, according to a new report that says beatings and torture are common. In addition, hundreds of Palestinian minors are prosecuted by Israel each year without a proper trial and are denied family visits. The findings by Defence for Children International (DCI) come in the wake of revelations from Israeli soldiers and senior commanders that it is […]
Friday 15 May 2009 by Jeremy Scahill | Visit article original @ AlterNet The "Black Shirts" of Guantánamo routinely terrorize prisoners, breaking bones, gouging eyes, squeezing testicles, and "dousing" them with chemicals. As the Obama administration continues to fight the release of some 2,000 photos that graphically document U.S. military abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, an ongoing Spanish investigation is adding harrowing details to the ever-emerging portrait of the torture […]
Bad news for civil rights As my grandmother used to say about certain individuals "butter wouldn't melt in his mouth." We've gone from a bumbling. arrogant enemy of the Constitution, to a polished orator who gives all the appearance of being a good man - until you pay attention to what he's actually saying. (http://brasschecktv.com/page/630.html) http://www.internationalnews.fr/article-32470349.html
Documentary by producer and writer Sherry Jones showing how at the request of the Bush administration, the legal staff pushed the envelope and redefined torture in an attempt to stay out of trouble. No war crimes for this administration and so far with help from their friends, they have gotten away with it. http://www.torturingdemocracy.org/ Promo Full Lenght Film
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