Israel: Immediately release Palestinian hunger striker Samer Al-Barq, Hassan Safadi and prisoner Akram Rikhawi
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel, pm_eng@pmo.gov.il Re: Israel: Immediately release Palestinian hunger striker Samer Al-Barq,Hassan Safadi andprisoner Akram Rikhawi Dear Prime Minister of the State of Israel, I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com. I have been informed by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-IL), Addameer Prisoner Support and [...]
Guatemalan Femicide: The Legacy of Repression and Injustice
One generally overlooked feature of the Guatemalan government and military’s 36-year (1960-96) genocidal counterinsurgency campaign against the country’s Mayan population is the strategy of targeting women with violence. Rape, mutilation, sexual slavery, forced abortion, and sterilizations were just some of the sadistic tools used in a systematic practice of state-sponsored terror to crush the surviving [...]
‘Dirty War’ Tactic of Disappearances Reappears in Mexico
The War on Drugs is becoming another “Dirty War” in Mexico, with the tactic of enforced disappearances reappearing as a commonplace occurrence in the country. “Enforced disappearances in Mexico have happened in the past and continue to happen today,” the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances stated during a presentation of its findings [...]
SCAF lifts Egyptian state of emergency which has been in place since 1981
The Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces SCAF has finally abolished the state of emergency that has been in place in Egypt since 1981, the year in which president Anwar al-Sadat was murdered. Over the years thousands of people have been arrested under this law that permitted to keep them in prison, without due [...]
Interview: Palestinian rights defender banned from traveling tastes freedom in Geneva
For most of the past six years, Israel has forbidden Shawan Jabarin, a prominent human rights advocate and former administrative detainee, from leaving the occupied West Bank. On exception, he was allowed travel to Geneva this week to meet Frank La Rue, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression. Israel imposed its travel ban [...]
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