Military courts in Bahrain convict doctors and uphold life senctences against opposition leaders
Amnesty International has voiced anger over the conviction, on 29 September, of 20 medics in Bahrain who got prison sentences of up to 15 years. The doctors and other health workers were found guilty by a military court in Manama of attempting to topple the government during protests earlier this year. Amnesty International calle the [...]
A Mexican view: authoritarian despair
A column by John Ackerman on the passage of a law in the state of Veracruz punishing the use of social media to spread information if it proves to be false and creates public alarm and disorder. This law was a reaction to the so-called “Twitter Terroists.” Ackerman is a researcher in the Institute for [...]
GEORGIA: Weekly Economic Digest Eng September 19 – September 26, 2011
Dear all, Economic Digest September 19 – September 26, 2011 Main Themes of Week: · According to the Fraser Institute’s „Economic Freedom of the World 2011“ Annual Report, Georgia ranks 27 (with 7.36 score) among the world’s 141 countries · Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Georgia at current prices amounted to 5 848,1 million GEL [...]
The Zanzibar Revolution
On the night of January 12, 1964 a band of some 300 people violently seized the Island of Unguja. They were led by a little known man named John Okello, who had lived on Pemba, having come to the Islands some years earlier from Uganda. In Zanzibar he developed a popular following among a core [...]
Lesson from South Africa: Support the political prisoners
Last week, I discussed with Ghadija Vallie the lessons learned from resistance in apartheid South Africa, particularly involving political prisoners. Ghadija coordinated the Western Cape Relief Fund that supported prisoners on Robben Island, a maximum security prison for political prisoners in apartheid South Africa. Vallie also worked with most prisons in the Western Cape province [...]
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