Algeria: Arrest and beating of human rights defender Mr Yacine Zaid
H.E. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President; Minister of National Defence, Algiers Your Excellency, I am William Nicholas Gomes,Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com I came to know about the situation from Front Line Defenders. On the morning of 1 October 2012, human rights defender Mr Yacine Zaid was arrested and brutally beaten by three policemen in Ouargla. At [...]
“Arab Spring and Western-Islam relations”
In several postings throughout spring and summer 2011 (see the postings entitled: Western co-optation of Arab Revolts – April 2011; Middle East: mid-2011 Assessment of Arab Revolts, June 2011), I emphasized that the Arab revolts would not necessarily result in regimes that are accountable to their own people, but more likely to Western governments and [...]
Arab Spring and the Environment
The Arab Spring movement has radically changed the political landscape of the Middle East and North Africa. At this critical juncture many are asking questions about the impact these change will have on environmental issues in the region. There have been regime changes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya in addition to uprising in Syria, Yemen, [...]
Bouteflika promises a new constitution
ALGERIA Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been in power for 12 years, has promised to amend the constitution to “strengthen democracy”.Bouteflika’s speech was a response to unrest that broke out in January with strikes, marches and rioting echoing protests elsewhere in the Arab world. Earlier, in February, Bouteflika, who is 74 and not in [...]
The Hunger Trigger
As the din of revolution overwhelmed the Arab streets and thousands of defiant young Arabs, whose visceral anger like scalding lava has been bubbling just below the surface for years and now suddenly bursts into violent demonstrations over their governments’ inability to provide the basic necessities of life forcing Tunisia’s Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali [...]
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