Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
There is something stunningly awful about this Hamas-Fatah-Israel story over the past 12 hours or so.
I’m not sure it doesn’t exceed the Hamas-Fatah battles that took place in Gaza in mid-June 2007, when first Hamas, then Fatah, each threw members of each other’s groups off of high-rise buildings to their deaths. There was also [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Torture
Posted on October 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN’s independent investigator on human rights in the fight against terrorism, Martin Scheinin, said in a report released Monday to the UNGA in NY that he’s concerned about U.S. detention practices, military courts and interrogation techniques. He urged the U.S. government to end the CIA practice of extraordinary rendition, in which terrorism suspects [...]
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Filed under: Guantanamo, Human Rights, Sanctions, Torture
Posted on October 5th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Many valid points were made in a comment posted on the Angry Arab Blog in response to the NY Times article on two secret Justice Department memos we covered yesterday in our post U.S.: “Torture” is out, “combined effects” are in..
One of the most important is that torture does not extract reliable information from [...]
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Filed under: Torture
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Marian Houk
“Torture is abhorrent both to American law and values and to international norms” - from a legal opinion by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The New York Times published an investigative report today revealing that “When the Justice Department publicly declared torture ‘abhorrent’ in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have [...]
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Posted on December 21st, 2006 by Marian Houk
In a bold step with a weakly-argued point, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has called on Libyan courts to review the death sentences imposed on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor for the alleged intentional transmission of HIV to hundreds of children — in light of evidence showing that [...]
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Filed under: Kofi Annan Watch, Libya, Torture, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
