From Human Rights Watch, Feb. 14: King Abdullah should halt the execution of Fawza Falih and void her conviction for “witchcraft,” Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the Saudi king. The religious police who arrested and interrogated Fawza… Read moreSaudi Arabia: woman faces execution for “witchcraft”
Former IRA fugitive Pól Brennan will remain in the Homeland Security Department’s Port Isabel Processing Center near Los Fresnos, TX, until at least March 11, after he was forced to ask a US immigration judge to postpone a hastily scheduled… Read moreEx-IRA fugitive detained by Homeland Security —despite asylum plea
New Delhi has rushed a high-level team of senior Home Ministry officials to eastern Orissa state after some 600 Naxalite guerillas carried out simultaneous raids on several police stations in Nayagarh district late Feb. 15, killing 15 and looting large… Read moreIndia: Delhi threatens air-strikes after coordinated Naxalite attacks
A joint press release from US Labor Against the War and Oil Change International, Feb. 15: Stop the Theft of Iraq’s Future – Iraqi Oil for the Iraqi People In Iraq, the on-going war and occupation has led to hundreds… Read moreInternational mobilization to defend Iraq’s oil
Police arrested 24 in Spain’s Basque region Feb. 14 in a strike called by the outlawed Batasuna party to protest the banning of other parties supposedly linked to the armed group ETA. Strikers, mostly teachers and academics, held banners reading:… Read moreSpain: dozens arrested in Basque Country strike
Some 20 FARC guerillas are dead and 30 more injured in ongoing clashes over the past week at the Colombian village of Chaparral, Tolima department, officials say. High casualties were reportedly due to aerial bombardment of rebel positions by Colombian… Read moreColombia: air force bombs marijuana growers?
In a new report, Human Rights Watch charges that Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) is adept at documenting abuses—but has failed to prevent them. Said HRW Americas director Jose Miguel Vivanco: “While it does a decent job documenting abuses… Read moreMexico: HRW blasts National Human Rights Commission
Rival mass tributes were held in Beirut Feb. 14 despite bad weather to commemorate the third anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the Feb. 12 car-bomb slaying of senior Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus…. Read moreWho killed Imad Mughniyeh?
From the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC), Feb. 12: Once Again US Troops Desperately Attempt to Suppress the Voice of Freedom in Iraq The occupying troops have made another attempt to eliminate the voice of freedom from Iraq by raiding the… Read moreIraq civil resistance headquarters raided by US troops
From the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), Feb. 13: El Salvador’s Attorney General last Friday [Feb. 8] requested that charges of “acts of terrorism” be dropped against 13 peaceful protesters arrested at a demonstration against… Read moreEl Salvador: terrorism charges dropped against “Suchitoto 13”
In an important ruling, an Egyptian court has allowed two converts to Islam to return to their original Coptic Orthodox faith. In the past many Copts who become Muslims in order to secure divorces (which is not permissible under Coptic… Read moreEgypt: Copts allowed to “reconvert” to their faith
Protesters took to the streets of the Kashmiri capital Srinagar [Feb. 11] to mark the 24th anniversary of the hanging of Maqbool Bhat, the founder of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front. In 1984, Bhat was executed in Delhi for… Read moreProtests mark anniversary of Kashmir “martyr”
