The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) has condemned the incommunicado detention and apparent “disappearance” in Mexico’s conflicted Oaxaca state of Raymundo Rivera Bravo, 55, and Edmundo Reyes Amaya, 50, two militants of the Popular Democratic Revolutionary Party (PDPR). According to… Read moreOaxaca: PDPR militants “disappeared”
Leaders of the Section 50 health workers union in Mexico’s conflicted and impoverished southern state of Chiapas issued an urgent call to state and federal authorities to establish dialogue with the Zapatista Nation Liberation Army’s regional authorities at the highland… Read moreChiapas: whooping cough epidemic?
A suicide bomber in a truck filled with cooking gas and explosives detonated his payload in Baghdad’s Khalani Square June 19 just as worshippers were finishing midday prayers at the square’s large Shi’ite mosque, killing 87, injuring more than 200… Read moreThe real “surge” in Iraq: reprisal mosque bombings
Via PRWeb, the Press Release Newswire, June 15: Noam Chomsky Voices Support for the “Responsibility to Iraqi Refugees Act of 2007” House Resolution 2265 would allow more Iraqis into the United States, including religious minorities suffering from persecution. Mandaean Crisis… Read moreChomsky supports Iraq refugee bill
At least 22 people were killed and 10 wounded when a missile hit a cluster of compounds in Datakhel district of Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region, locals said. Taliban leaders said the death toll was as high as 32. Reports… Read moreWaziristan: 22 killed in madrassa missile strike?
Twenty-one protesters who were arrested at an anti-trade protest in Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 15 were released on the 18th on conditions that they do not return to the protest lines. Authorities said they faced a variety of charges, including… Read moreGlobophobes rock Halifax
International aid agency Oxfam has announced it is pulling out of Gereida, the largest camp in Darfur, where more than 130,000 have sought refuge. The agency cited inaction by local authorities from the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), which controls the… Read moreOxfam pulls out of largest Darfur refugee camp, citing attacks on aid workers
From the AP, June 19: VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Tuesday issued a “Ten Commandments” for motorists to keep them on the road to salvation, warning drivers against the sins of road rage, abuse of alcohol or even simple… Read moreVatican issues new Ten Commandments —for motorists
From Reporters Without Borders, June 18, via International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX): Reporters Without Borders has voiced deep outrage at the murder of Filaih Wadi Mijthab, editor of the daily “al-Sabah”, whom kidnappers snatched from his car on 13… Read moreIraq: another journalist assassinated
A lawyer for the United Steelworkers has asked the US State Department to investigate infiltration by Colombia’s illegal paramilitaries into President Alvaro Uribe’s first electoral campaign, based on a video showing then-candidate Uribe meeting with a group that included a… Read moreColombia: video sparks call for probe of Uribe paramilitary links
Veracruz state police detained 47 members of local campesino group “Los Dorados de Villa” at the community of Ixhuatlán de Madero, in the mountainous Huasteca region. The campesinos, adherents of the Zapatista “Other Campaign,” had been peacefully occupying a 513-hectare… Read moreVeracruz: police raid peasant land occupation
At least 35 have been killed in a suicide attack on a police bus in Kabul June 17—the deadliest attack since the Taliban regime fell. Most of the dead were instructors going to work at the city’s police academy, but… Read moreAfghanistan: suicide bombings escalate
