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"20 Human Rights "Mercenaries" Arrested for Human Rights Day in Cuba
On their ways to the commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
HAVANA -- Representatives of Cuban dissident groups on Tuesday denounced the arrests of at least 20 activists and said that they would not change their plans to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights scheduled for Wednesday.
Marta Beatriz Roque, the head of the Agenda for the Transition, and Elizardo Sanchez, of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, told Efe that among the opposition figures arrested are Jorge Luis Garcia "Antunez," Guillermo Fariñas, Iania Yanes Contreras and Lazaro Alonso."
50 years of totalitarian dictatorship and systematic human rights abuses."20 Human Rights "Mercenaries" Arrested for Human Rights Day in Cuba... more
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BEIJING: Two dozen people protested outside China's Foreign Ministry in downtown Beijing on Wednesday, using the 60th anniversary of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights to decry a myriad of alleged government abuses.
Kneeling outside the front gate of the building, the group held up letters of complaints and called for redress for illegal detentions, government seizures of land, and abuses by local courts.
One woman clasped a bright red copy of the constitution close to her chest, and another a white banner in English that read: "Safeguard human rights." Others held photos of relatives allegedly beaten in labor camps.
Many were petitioners, people who come to the capital to ask the central government for help against abuses by local governments, a centuries-old practice dating from days when people could petition the emperor. Many cannot air their stories in local media or courts, which are both controlled by the Communist Party.
"Today is human rights day, but there is no human rights in China. I want my land, I want to eat," said Yang Guiyin, a middle-aged woman from Shanxi in northern China. She said her land was taken away four years ago for development and her house knocked down, but the local government refused to give her compensation.BEIJING: Two dozen people protested outside China's Foreign Ministry in downtown... more
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Chinese petitioners forced into mental asylums, claims report
Tania Branigan, Beijing
The Guardian, Tuesday December 9 2008
Local officials in China have been accused of using forcible psychiatric treatment to silence critics, it emerged yesterday, amid reports that at least 18 people bringing complaints against authorities were held in a mental hospital in Shandong province against their will.
Authorities in Xintai district committed people who had pursued grievances ranging from police brutality to property disputes, according to the Beijing News. Some were force-fed drugs.Chinese petitioners forced into mental asylums, claims report
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Need to step up and work on human rights here at home.
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The Israeli ship, which will be carrying supplies donated by Israelis for the people of Gaza, will sail on Sunday from the port of Jaffa.
Days after Israel's navy turned away a Libyan ship laden with humanitarian goods it planned to unload in the Gaza Strip, a ship organized in Israel and carrying Israeli-Arab parliamentarians will test the government's resolve to keep "peace ships" away.
Three such boats that sailed from Cyprus and Greece were recently allowed to reach the Gaza port before the Libyan ship was barred. The Israeli ship, which will be carrying supplies donated by Israelis for the people of Gaza, will sail on Sunday from the port of Jaffa. The sailing is being organized by the Islamic Movement's branch in northern Israel.
On Wednesday, the Libyan ambassador to the United Nations told the Security Council that Israel had committed an "act of piracy" when it turned back the Libyan ship. On Thursday, Israel opened Gaza to international reporters and aid workers for the first time in a month. The move came under heavy pressure from the Foreign Press Association.
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The pressure is mounting against Israel and people are responding. And those people are angles of Gaza coming from all points on Earth, including the people of Israel.
It's been no secret, and I've stated this thousands of times, that the majority of the population of Israel is against this inhumane siege on Gaza. Many Jewish friends of mine have called or told me they wish this never happened and I couldn't agree with them more. The people in Gaza and Palestine need to be free and to have their own country. Israel can make this an easy transition with the help she can offer. Doing so will show the world that Israel seeks an end, a permanent end to the tragedy of the Palestinian people.
Much much respect and blessings to those people in Israel for the good that they want to see and for what they are doing. Shalom...................
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Zulu UkuthulaThe Israeli ship, which will be carrying supplies donated by Israelis for the people... more
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Many innocent infants and children are in grave danger of dying unnecessarily because of Israels blockade on Gaza. Very little is getting in and the United Nations needs your help...here is an email I just received:
My name is Amaria and I work for the External Relations department of UNRWA. My colleagues forwarded to me your email and first I would like to thank you for writing to us showing your interest in our work and our mandate to serve Palestine refugees.
Among our core humanitarian programmes to Palestine refugees, UNRWA regularly distributes food aid on a quarterly basis to the Gazan refugees who represent 75% of the population of the Gaza Strip. In the current circumstances of closure of the Gaza Strip and dire living conditions, we run an additional emergency food aid programme to reach out to the most needy ( for more information, see our webiste: http://www.un.org/unrwa/programmes/rss/foodaid.html). Our staff in the field are aware of the dire needs of the population, and here in the External Relations department, we urge our donors to give more and in a more predictable way to allow UNRWA maintain food security levels for the refugees.
If you think you can help with some fundraising activities, we would be very happy to ear-mark any potential contribution specificially for food aid, or even milk commodity. Would you have any other ideas, please don't hesitate to contact me, I would be very happy to explore ways of cooperation with you.
Best regards,
www.unrwa.orgMany innocent infants and children are in grave danger of dying unnecessarily because... more
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The following is a speech delivered by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire at the seventh International Sabeel Conference in Jerusalem on 19 November 2008:
...In this the 2lst century many of us take freedom for granted, but not everyone has freedom here in Israel/Palestine. I realized this, yet again, when I told a Palestinian friend I was attending this conference and he told me that though he was born in Jerusalem he is not allowed to come into East Jerusalem.
This brought home to me that East Jerusalem is indeed an integral part of the occupied territory of Palestine and many Arab people born here are not allowed into East Jerusalem.
Many Arabs who do live in East Jerusalem live in fear of their homes being demolished or expulsion by the Israeli Government -- such as the al-Kurd family home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem where the Supreme court has ruled on the expulsion of this family from their home. Since l967 almost 20,000 Palestinian homes have been demolished in the West Bank.
The expulsions and demolitions continue almost daily, along with continuing development of illegal settlements for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem, and the West Bank. A few days ago I visited the site in West Jerusalem where the Israelis are building a Museum of Tolerance upon an ancient Muslim cemetery, where the bones of the Muslims' ancestors are being exhumed.
This is deeply painful to the Muslim people and I would like to appeal for this project to be canceled. The Israeli Supreme court, whose role it is to uphold human rights and international laws, has agreed to this desecration of Muslim graves, and continues to rule in favor of many inhumane and illegal policies, directed against Palestinians, and against those Jewish citizens who have the moral courage to challenge this discrimination and destruction of Palestinian homes.
In spite of all this, I myself have great hope for change in the Middle East. I have hope because for almost a decade now I have been coming to Palestine/Israel and in that time I have met with many deeply committed people who have dedicated their lives to working for a peaceful, just solution to what is one of the longest running conflicts in the world. To all these people I offer my support for your nonviolent struggle for human rights and democracy.
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A wonderful, learned person that has the hope, faith and compassion for the human race asks the International community to stand up for human rights and to end the divide between Palestine and Israel. Like I've said many times in the past here, Israel is the big power, and Israel has the power to end all this despite the small, extremely small extremists on both sides.
Additionally, I cannot bear to see children killed, and starved-over a million innocent people victim of collective punishment because of a handful of violent people. It needs to end and Israel can and should end all this.The following is a speech delivered by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan... more
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Fourteen Palestinian fishermen along with three internationals have been kidnapped out of Palestinian waters by the Israeli Navy. They were fishing seven miles off the coast of Deir Al Balla, clearly in Gaza fishing waters.
The three internationals are Andrew Muncie from Scotland, Darlene Wallach from the United States and Victor Arrigoni from Italy. The U.K., U.S. and Italian embassies in Tel Aviv have been contacted and know about the abductions.
Please call the Israeli Ministry of Justice at +972 26 46 66 66 and register your outrage over these illegal actions by the Israeli Military
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Greta Berlin
Media Team
Free Gaza Movement
357 99 08 17 67
www.freegaza.org
www.anis-online.de/office/events/FreeGazaSong.htm
www.flickr.com/photos/29205195@N02/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Caoimhe Butterly + 972 598 273 960
Donna Wallach + 972 598 836 420
Ramzi Kysia, U.K. +44 75 191 33 097Fourteen Palestinian fishermen along with three internationals have been kidnapped out... more
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Most Humanitarian organizations have concluded that Israel is committing gross violations of human rights by starving innocent people, denying water rights, cutting off power and denying medical supplies besides their using weapons that indiscriminately kill many children and other innocent people (like swatting a fly with a shotgun), Israel is going to face the wrath of God in the coming years.
We all know what karma is all about. Karma is a natural power that equalizes everything. Do something good, it comes back good. Do something bad, it comes back bad a thousand times. Sometimes more.
Karma, imho, is Gods will.
Israel has let some medical supplies in, only to lessen the bad publicity that will come down the road. Israels publicity machine lately has been in overdrive, counterattacking the truth that has been coming out lately. The Jewish Lobby is doing everything they can to make it llke like they are the victims, when in fact, innocent Palestinians are truly the victims. Their voices are finally being heard 'round the world due to the technology that has been handed to them from human rights organizations as well as more 'eyes and ears' of well known people and International officials.
There is no question about it, Israel is a terrorist in their ways. Israel is Satans partner in crime.
Truth always wins and their deception and lies will all come back on them. When Israel decides to stop the aggression on innocent civilians, when Israel gives back land illegally stolen from innocent people, when Israel makes a real effort for Peace, then, and only then we may see Hell freeze over. Or will we?
America has a new President that I believe will see thru the bull crap Israel has been feeding the world. With change being his mantra, Israel is no doubt going to see change.
Maybe Hell will have an ice age after all.
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audio story at linkMost Humanitarian organizations have concluded that Israel is committing gross... more
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The situation in the Gaza Strip is genocide. The United Nations, The European Union, Amnesty International and hundreds of Human Rights groups have sent a strong message to world leaders that Israel is conducting a horrific genocide of the Palestinian people and is hiding this by preventing journalists from reporting and witnessing these crimes.
The office of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon;
"...(I am) concerned that food and other lifesaving assistance is being denied to hundreds of thousands of people, and emphasizes that measures which increase the hardship and suffering of the civilian population of the Gaza Strip as a whole are unacceptable and should cease immediately."
The EU Commissioner for External Relations:
"I am profoundly concerned about the consequences for the Gazan population of the complete closure of all Gaza crossings for deliveries of fuel and basic humanitarian assistance," she said in a press statement.
"I call on Israel to re-open the crossings for humanitarian and commercial flows, in particular food and medicines. Facilitation of fuel deliveries for the Gaza Power Plant should be resumed immediately."
The EU statement further stated that "International law requires the provision of access to essential services such as electricity and clean water to the civilian population," and demanded that restraint be exercised by all parties to avoid an escalation of humanitarian suffering.
Oxfam International, one of the large international organizations that work regularly in the Gaza Strip, has condemned the Israeli decision to close the borders into Gaza.
Oxfam International Executive Director Jeremy Hobbs sent the following statement to the international press on Friday:
"World leaders must step up and exercise all their political might to break the blockade of Gaza. As a matter of humanitarian imperative, Israeli leaders must resume supplies into Gaza without further delay. If Israelis and Palestinians alike don't exert every effort now to maintain the truce which has held since last June, the result could be catastrophic for civilians both in Gaza and in nearby Israeli towns."
The most thorough and to the point condemnation so far has come from a report released by Amnesty International, which called the current situation in Gaza "nothing short of collective punishment."
Amnesty urged Israeli authorities to allow the passage of vital supplies into Gaza."Israel's latest tightening of its blockade has made an already dire humanitarian situation markedly worse," the deputy director of the organization's Middle East and North Africa Program, Philip Luther, said on Friday. "It must stop immediately," Luther added.
Meanwhile, Israeli authorities have been denying international journalists access to Gaza for over a week. On Thursday, a convoy of European diplomats was likewise refused entry.
"Gaza is cut off from the outside world. Israel is seemingly not keen on the world seeing the suffering that its blockade is causing to the one and a half million Palestinians who are virtually trapped there," Philip Luther from Amnesty said.
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights-Media Unit
Rupert Colville, Spokesperson, +41.22.917.9767
Xabier Celaya, Information Officer, + 41 22.917.9383/ +41.79.444.7578
OXFAM, Michael Bailey
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Jerusalem Office
Tel + 972 (0)2 656 6234 ext 223
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More at the link, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire and many other major newspaper articles supporting this.
Please pass this around and call whomever you think can put pressure on the Israeli government as well as exposing their horrible genocide in Palestine.
Here is one American congressman's quest to end the occupation there as well as the myths surrounding Israel and some history:
http://www.johnmurphyforcongress.org/endoccupation.htmThe situation in the Gaza Strip is genocide. The United Nations, The European Union,... more
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The Israeli judge presiding over their case has cited the Oslo Accords. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords
If you check the accord out, the fishing limit is 20 miles. Israeli government took them while out 8 miles or so, far from the accords stated legal limit. Furthermore, the accords were meant to last five years from 1993, and after that a new stage in the road to peace would be drawn up. Since neither of the entities followed the accords, it nulls and voids the whole document.
Israel is again violating human rights, and this time by kidnapping the ones that watch after human rights. No journalists, no human rights watchers and no respect for human rights is what Israel is dishing out. Here's the story/report given to me:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HUMAN RIGHTS OBSERVERS START HUNGER STRIKE IN ISRAEL
For More Information, Please Contact:
Neta Golan (ISM Palestine) +972 (0)598 184 169 / +972 (0)22 971 824
Fida Qishta (ISM Gaza) +972 (0)599 681 1669
Donna Wallach (ISM Gaza) +972 (0)598 836 420
Massiyahu Prison, Lida, Israel (20 November, 2008) - Three Human Rights Observers (HRO) with the International Solidarity Movement will begin a hunger strike tomorrow in protest over their illegal detention by Israel. The three HROs, Darlene Wallach of the U.S., Vittorio Arrigoni of Italy, and Andrew Muncie of Scotland, were forcibly abducted by the Israeli Navy on Tuesday, while accompanying unarmed Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip.
According to Wallach, "We were fishing about 7 miles off the shores of Gaza. The Israeli soldiers came on board the three boats via four Zodiacs. The frogmen came up and over each boat. They used a taser on Vik while he was still on the boat, then tried to push him backwards onto a sharp piece of wood. He jumped into the sea to avoid being hurt more than he already was and was in the water for quite a while. Then they came for me and forced me into the Zodiac at the point of a gun. They kidnapped me and Andrew and Vik and all of the Palestinian fishermen."
Israel abducted and later released 15 Palestinian fishermen during the incident, and confiscated their fishing boats. The HROs are refusing to be deported, and refusing to eat, until the boats are returned--undamaged--to their rightful owners in Gaza.
"We R on hunger strike and want 2 go before judge in court. No deportation til boats are returned 2 fishermen," was the text message sent out from jail by the HROs this afternoon.
At court today, HRO Andrew Muncie asked the judge under what law they had been arrested. According to the judge, their detention was authorized by the Oslo Accords "because it is forbidden by military law for you to fish 7 and a half miles off the coast. It is a no-fishing zone."
However, the Oslo accords grant Palestinians the right to fish 20 miles off their own coast. When Andrew's attorney handed a copy of that portion of the Oslo accords to the judge, she had no comment.
On August 23, 2008, Wallach, Muncie and Arrigoni were among 44 participants in the Free Gaza Movement who were aboard the first boats in forty-one years to enter Gaza by sea, breaking the Israeli blockade. They remained in Gaza to participate in human rights activities with the International Solidarity Movement. They have been living and working in Gaza since the summer, providing accompaniment to Palestinian farmers and fishermen, and documenting Israeli human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip.
The three will stop eating tomorrow morning until the confiscated fishing boats are "returned in the condition they were in when the frogmen boarded the boats, with any damage they made repaired."
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All three detained HROs are available for press interviews. Please contact the ISM for more information and for their phone numbers.
Greta Berlin
Media Team
Free Gaza Movement
357 99 08 17 67
www.freegaza.org
www.flickr.com/photos/29205195@N02/The Israeli judge presiding over their case has cited the Oslo Accords.... more
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Imagine life under these conditions: Living in limbo under a foreign occupier. Having no self-determination, no right of return, and no power over your daily life. Being in constant fear, economically strangled, and collectively punished.
Having your free movement denied by enclosed population centers, closed borders, regular curfews, roadblocks, checkpoints, electric fences, and separation walls. Having your homes regularly demolished and land systematically stolen to build settlements for encroachers in violation of international law prohibiting an occupier from settling its population on conquered land.
Having your right to essential services denied - to emergency health care, education, employment, and enough food and clean water. Being forced into extreme poverty, having your crops destroyed, and being victimized by punitive taxes. Having no right for redress in the occupier's courts under laws only protecting the occupier.
Being regularly targeted by incursions and attacks on the ground and from the air. Being willfully harassed, ethnically cleansed, arrested, incarcerated, tortured, and slaughtered on any pretext, including for your right of self-defense. Having no rights on your own land in your own country for over six decades and counting. Vilified for being Muslims and called terrorists, Jihadists, crazed Arabs, and fundamentalist extremists. Victimized by a slow-motion genocide to destroy you.
According to Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, Israel has conducted state-sponsored genocide against the Palestinians for decades and intensively in Gaza. In a September 2006 Electronic Intifada article titled "Genocide in Gaza" he wrote:
"A genocide is taking place in Gaza....An average of eight Palestinians die daily in the Israeli attacks on the Strip. Most of them are children. Hundreds are maimed, wounded and paralyzed. (It's become) a daily business, now reported (only) in the internal pages of the local press, quite often in microscopic fonts. The chief culprits are the Israeli pilots who have a field day," like shooting fish in a barrel. Why not, they're only Muslims, so who'll notice or care.
International law expert Francis Boyle does and in March 1998 proposed that "the Provisional Government of (Palestine) and its President institute legal proceedings against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague for violating the" Genocide Convention. He stated that "Israel has indeed perpetrated the international crime of genocide against the Palestinian people (and the) lawsuit would....demonstrate that undeniable fact to the entire world."
Israel is a serial human rights international law abuser. The UN Human Rights Commission affirms that it violates nearly all 149 articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention that governs the treatment of civilians in war and under occupation and is guilty of grievous war crimes. The Commission also determined that as an occupying power Israel has committed crimes against humanity as defined under the 1945 Nuremberg Charter.
Geneva, Nuremberg and other international human rights laws guarantee what Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: that everyone "has the right to life, liberty and security of person." Article 6 (1) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights also affirms it in saying that every "human being has the inherent right to life." Official Israeli policy is to deny it to Palestinians under occupation, especially Gazans under siege.
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this truly has to stop...much coverage lately and we still need more. We have some things happening and we wont let up making the world aware of what Israels crimes areImagine life under these conditions: Living in limbo under a foreign occupier. Having... more
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So let me shout this out loud: we are hundreds, we are thousands we are millions, and no army in the world will stop us. The SS Hope is next in line and will carry, among 18 others, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire and Mustafa Barghouti. In the long run there will be a permanent ferry sea-line between Cyprus and Gaza. We are determined to go all the way and we said that right from the start.
On August 23rd, the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty, carrying 46 international human rights workers including the sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and humanitarian aid, Their confrontation with Israeli gunboats and the results of their nonviolent opposition to Israel’s economic strangulation of Gaza-the inaugural achievement of the Free Gaza Movement.
AMEU Vice President Jane Adas interviewed Anis Hamadeh, who manages the Free Gaza Movement’s website.
Why and when did the Free Gaza Movement come into being? The Free Gaza Movement came into being about two years ago and was initiated by experienced human rights workers from several continents. I joined in about a year ago. Israel said the Gaza Strip was no longer occupied, but people in Gaza suffer severely from Israeli restrictions that have no legal basis at all. While the UN and other responsible organizations and countries have failed to act, the Free Gaza Movement has been successful – a triumph for civil nonviolent direct action.
What has been the reaction of the Israeli government to the Free Gaza Movement’s efforts to break the siege on Gaza? “Chaotic” seems to be the right term here. First they said we were pirates and breakers of international law, which was rather amusing. (I say “we,” but I was not on board.) When they noticed the gigantic media coverage they said, “OK, you can come in”—an occupier’s statement. Finally, in an al-Jazeera TV interview with our Huwaida Arraf, one Mr. Gissin, an Israeli official, said, “Boats may land in Gaza when they have no weapons on board.” You can find the video online. We take him at his word. After the boats arrived, the authorities arrested Jeff Halper, an Israeli boat passenger, for entering Israel from Gaza, despite their own official previous approval. Now, after our first success, the army seems to be anxious to take revenge on the poor Palestinian fishermen by shooting at them even more than before. It is all documented. Actually, the Israelis claim that it is a provocation for them when Palestinians go fishing in their own waters to make a living. They are truly amazing. Israeli officials are scared, that’s for certain.
Publicity is essential for the success of nonviolent direct action. Did American and European mainstream media pay attention? Oh yes, it is just too sensational not to be covered. Nobody remembers when the last ship or boat freely entered Gaza, but it must have been before 1967 at least. Even Zionist-friendly newspapers acknowledge the courage and determination of the Free Gaza passengers who fear neither death nor devil to take a stand. I watched the arrival of the boats in Gaza on August 23rd here in Germany on the 8 o’clock evening news. Many, many people cried for joy that day. Archbishop Desmond Tutu and even the United Nations are in favor of our project. Another reason for the success of Free Gaza is the new internet media of the 21st century. This is a precedent for much more than Palestine. My motto is: “The path of nonviolence is the path into the public.”
more at link above, and the free gaza website:
http://www.freegaza.orgSo let me shout this out loud: we are hundreds, we are thousands we are millions, and... more
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Tibetans, especially women are brutally and sexually tortured without any regards for the rights that are theirs as women and human beings. The world has kept silence to all the human rights violations happening in China against minorities and the Chinese people themselves.Tibetans, especially women are brutally and sexually tortured without any regards for... more
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Newsflash it is about time the UN does something about this, this has been going on weeks and famine and injustices that claimed countless lives. It is about time.Newsflash it is about time the UN does something about this, this has been going on... more
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Sebastian Arcos Cazabon speaks about his father's death due to the systematic denial of medical treatment by Cuban government authorities. His father Sebastian Arcos Bergnes was one of the founders of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights and an important figure in the July 26 Movement who fought with the Castro brothers to overthrow the Batista Dictatorship. More information at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastia...Sebastian Arcos Cazabon speaks about his father's death due to the systematic... more
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Iris Tamara Pérez Aguilera faces prison or a hefty fine for speaking out when authorities were beating a defenseless man bloody. Keep an eye out for her.Iris Tamara Pérez Aguilera faces prison or a hefty fine for speaking out when... more
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Yoani Sanchez blogging from Cuba talks about the importance of the Gorki case and the impending Hurricane Gustav.
My prayers are with the Cubans on the island facing this monster storm.Yoani Sanchez blogging from Cuba talks about the importance of the Gorki case and the... more
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Two elderly Chinese women have been sentenced to a year of "re-education through labor" after they repeatedly sought a permit to demonstrate in one of the official Olympic protest areas, according to family members and human rights advocates.
The women, Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77, had made five visits to the police this month in an effort to get permission to protest what they contended was inadequate compensation for the demolition of their homes in Beijing.
During their final visit on Monday, public security officials informed them that they had been given administrative sentences for "disturbing the public order," according to Li Xuehui, Ms. Wu’s son.
Mr. Li said his mother and Ms. Wang, who used to be neighbors before their homes were demolished to make way for a redevelopment project, were allowed to return home but were told they could be sent to a detention center at any moment. "Can you imagine two old ladies in their 70s being re-educated through labor?" he asked. He said Ms. Wang was nearly blind.
A man who answered the phone at the Public Security Bureau declined to give out information about the case.
At least a half dozen people have been detained by the authorities after they responded to a government announcement late last month designating venues in three city parks as "protest zones" during the Olympics. So far, no demonstrations have taken place. Two elderly Chinese women have been sentenced to a year of "re-education through... more
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"Myanmar's military junta has invited a U.N. investigator to make his first visit next week so he can assess the human rights situation in the Southeast Asian country, the United Nations said on Friday.
Investigator Tomas Ojea Quintana, who will be in Myanmar from Sunday through Thursday, hopes to meet a number of government officials and heads of state institutions, the Geneva-based Human Rights Council said in a statement.
"The special rapporteur wishes to engage in a constructive dialogue with the authorities with a view to improving the human rights situation of the people of Myanmar," it said."
And uh, what is the UN going to do about it exactly? "Or else we will be very angry with you... and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are." (Team America)...at least awareness will go up I guess!
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