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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday December 22, 2007 11:03 by C Murray   text 14 comments (last - thursday january 10, 2008 12:38)   image 8 images
The area of linguistic rights and access to education from grassroot mobile library services
through to prisoner's rights has always been a concern of the International Pen Union.
Often the media, expecially in Ireland, would tend to ignore many of the press releases
which along with Reporter's Sans Frontieres, IFEX, and other NGO groups have consistently
attempted to highlight the dangers to the lives of writers in War regions and to those who
advocate basic human rights to dignity and right of access to education.
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national / crime and justice / other press Friday December 21, 2007 13:31 by tomeile   text 8 comments (last - saturday december 22, 2007 14:43)
Sean Hoey was found not guilty yesterday of involvement in the bombings which claimed twenty nine lives in Omagh on August 15, 1998. Justice Weir at Belfast Crown Court said police were guilty of a "deliberate and calculated deception" in their handling of the investigation.
Despite having been held in prison on remand for four years ,Hoey has received no apologies from the judiciary , police , politicians or press who have allowed the young electrician to be scapegoated to cover up for the role of intelligence agencies in the bombings .
Relatives of the bombing victims have vowed to continue their fight to bring the truth about what happened on that tragic afternoon to light. Justice Weir’s indictment of the police and Hoey’s acquittal square with the findings of Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan whose report in 2002 said that the RUC deliberately ignored crucial intelligence that, if acted upon, could have averted the tragedy.
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international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday December 20, 2007 16:49 by tomeile   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 20, 2007 19:52)

At the end of October, the influential Conservative-linked thinktank Policy Exchange published a report entitled The Hijacking of British Islam, which claimed that 26 out of nearly 100 mosques surveyed had been found to be selling "extremist material, some of it antisemitic, misogynistic, separatist and homophobic".
Seamus Milne from the Guardian questions the veracity of the report and the motivation of its authors in light of statistics which show that Asian people are now twice as likely to be stabbed to death in Britain as a decade ago, and four out of five convictions for religiously aggravated offences last year involved attacks on Muslims.
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Nelson Perez, Luis Eduardo Garcia, Jose Domingo Flores, Javier Correa
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday December 20, 2007 15:07 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 20, 2007 19:05)   image 1 image
Coke is certainly the real thing, once again it is using Rightwing Death-squads to terrorise and murder workers.

In the last fortnight, three Coca-Cola workers in Bucaramanga, Colombia have
been told that before the end of December they will be killed and buried in
a mass grave. The threat demands that their union cease all protest against
Coca-Cola. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday December 20, 2007 14:25 by funderland on crack   text 3 comments (last - friday july 25, 2008 16:43)
Every year the NYT issues "quotes of the year", hardly newsworthy for us lot who generally ignore the list which is awash with Bush gaffes & gurglings. But this year is different because Bush hasn't even made the top ten & the number one quote goes to a story which excited our interest & in its own way became a milestone in extended policing issues. I refer of course to the taser-ing of a student who heckled John Kerry whose immortal line " Don't Tase me Bro! " not only gave us a new verb with which to enjoy the usual holiday season scrabble sessions but was watched on youtube by hundreds of thousands of people just like yourself. read full story / add a comment
Imprisoned Students.
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 16:03 by Asqar Karimi   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 17, 2008 11:33)   image 1 image
Below is an appeal on behalf of imprisoned students. International Solidarity has forced the Iranian Regime to release trade union activists. Send your protest letters/emails to the addresses at the end of this piece.

In the last two weeks more than 40 student leaders and activists have been rounded up by the Ministry of Information of the Islamic regime of Iran. We have been informed that at least 43 of the detainees are being held in the notorious Evin Prison, and the whereabouts of the rest is unknown. These students were arrested on or before 7 December 2007 in anticipation of protests on Student Day.
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international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 15:03 by Joe   text 9 comments (last - saturday december 29, 2007 19:37)
The Israeli Attorney General says that if Civilians are killed as part of a military operation where an intelligence 'mistake' has been made, then it is legal read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 15:00 by funderland on crack   text 2 comments (last - friday december 21, 2007 12:06)   image 1 image
46 of 52 of the individuals who have faced trial this last year for links to ETA have received sentances today totaling 527 years in prison. The trial saw leaders of groups engaged in media support & internalisation of support for the Basque armed struggle independence tradition sit together in the dock in a process described by some as a "macro-trial". In the statement read to the court at sentancing the presiding judge Angela Murillo commented ......"KAS and EKIN are "much more than satellite organizations"; KAS "was ETA's media organization" and "EKIN is not any other thing than KAS in an apparent legal disguise..." read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 12:48 by Mariella F   text 8 comments (last - friday april 11, 2008 14:37)   image 1 image
An entirely innocent business man on his way home from work is tazered eight times. Guess what? He's black. These weapons are cleary designed to intimidate ordinary people. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 02:33 by D. Fitzharris
Jeppersen Dataplan, a subsidiary of Boeing, is being sued by a Yemeni man who was kidnapped, subjected to rendition and tortured. CTL, a Galway company, that is subsidized by the Irish Government does research for Boeing.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/31/18423221.php
http://www.democracynow.org/ read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday December 18, 2007 23:08 by red n black
Last year a Belfast anarchist travelled to the West Bank to work with the International Solidarity Movement and Palestinians and wrote this report on his impressions of the Palestinian struggle.
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Ebrahim Madadi celebrates his release with his family and union members.
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday December 18, 2007 14:47 by pat c   text 12 comments (last - thursday march 06, 2008 15:31)   image 2 images
A statement below from the ITF regarding the release of Ebrahim Madadi; however the ITF are concerned regarding the continuing detention of Mahmoud Salehi who is seriously ill.

In response to the release yesterday of Ebrahim Madadi, the Vice President of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, David Cockroft, ITF General Secretary said: "This is very good news - Madadi had committed no crime. Let us hope that the Iranian authorities have finally understood that trade union activities are a vital part of any strong society."
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international / gender and sexuality / other press Tuesday December 18, 2007 13:59 by pat c   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 09, 2008 17:48)
A report below by the Iraq Freedom Congress on the continuing attacks on women by Islamist gangs. But IFC point out that the occupation forces bear full responsibility for the practices of these gangs.

Unidentified gangs began to commit a series of organized crimes and killing many women in various cities in Iraq, particularly in Basra where more than 40 women are said to have been killed in the last 5 months. In addition to those crimes, these gangs threatened unveiled women to follow Islamic law and start wearing head scarf otherwise facing the severe consequences. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday December 18, 2007 13:26 by Joe   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 25, 2007 12:50)
Israel is to build more homes in built up areas of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Israeli officials said on Monday.
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international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday December 18, 2007 13:14 by tomeile
During the festive season a lot of drink is consumed ; party-goers can get careless and forget about the dangers of fire . Danger is ever present , particularly in unregulated premises with ineffective fire prevention procedures in place. The Scottish Fire Brigade has issued a call for vigilance . read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday December 18, 2007 12:53 by tomeile
Domingo Reyes who ran an unlicensed drinking den in New York has been charged with six counts of manslaughter . The charges relate to a fire that swept through the “social club” Reyes ran in the city’s Bronx district .Police and local residents say that the club had been a “ gathering spot for prostitutes and drug dealers” .
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 18, 2007 10:14 by antifascista
The sentence of the trial against the 25 demonstrators for the Genoa g8 riots has fixed the price to pay for expressing our own ideas and going against the actual state of things: 110 years of jail. read full story / add a comment
an arranged marriage in Afghanistan unites a 40 year old man & an 11 year old girl - their wedding photo gets UNICEF 1st prize 2007
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 18, 2007 00:03 by -   image 2 images
- Stephanie Clare's photo of 11 year old Ghulam a girl in Afghanistan sitting next to her 40 year old husband on their arranged wedding day ( as in the marriage was arranged against her wishes - not that they should really come into it anyway - your 11 year old wants to get married to anyone - you say no ) won the 2007 UNICEF photo award today at a ceremony in Berlin (Europe).

Many people will remember that one of the most admired & thought provoking photographs in the late 20th century was also of an Afghani girl Sharbat Gula who at 12 years of age was photographed by Steve Mc Curry and made th egfront cover of "National Geographic" to celebrate the end of the Taliban in 1995. It moved us all to take action. The americans went into to sort it out. The rest is the history of how the Taliban came back. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Monday December 17, 2007 10:44 by Maryjane O'Leary   text 2 comments (last - friday december 21, 2007 11:23)
Here is a report on the continuing detention of womens rights activists in Iran and a call for action on their behalf.

Human rights groups and journalists across the globe have condemned the arrest of cyber feminists, Jelve Javaheri and Maryam Hossienkhah in Iran earlier this month. Both of these women are activists and members of the One Million Signatures campaign. They are currently in Evin Prison on charges related to their writings in support of women’s rights. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Sunday December 16, 2007 23:43 by wageslave
New Jersey's state assembly yesterday voted 44-36 to abolish the death penalty - the first state to do so since Iowa and West Virginia scrapped the punishment in 1965. read full story / add a comment
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