Cao Gangchuan, China’s defence minister, pledged to maintain military ties with Sudan during the visit of Sudanese officials to Beijing. China has blocked efforts in the UN Security Council to dispatch peacekeepers to the violence-plagued western Sudanese region of Darfur,… Read moreChina and Sudan reaffirm military ties
Eleven electricity plant workers were killed in an ambush as they drove to work in northern Iraq April 4. Police said gunmen stopped a vehicle carrying the workers near Hawija, about 70 kilometers southwest of Kirkuk, then sprayed it with… Read moreKirkuk: insurgents kill workers
Interpol issued an international arrest warrant April 3 for three Israelis accused of training illegal paramilitary groups in Colombia. Yair Klein, Melnik Ferri and Tzedaka Abraham are being sought on charges of criminal conspiracy and instruction in terrorism, facing nearly… Read moreColombia seeks Israelis in paramilitary scandal
From the Center for Constitutional Rights, April 3: Descendants of Japanese American Internees File Amicus Brief in Support of Muslim Immigrants Today, descendants of Japanese Americans interned during World War II filed the first of three amicus briefs in support… Read moreJapanese-American WWII interns’ kin support Muslim immigration detainees
From the Center for Constitutional Rights, April 2: Supreme Court Denies Immediate Review of Guantanamo Cases Clients May Wait Another Year in Detention Without Meaningful Way to Challenge Imprisonment The Supreme Court announced today that it would not be hearing… Read moreSupreme court puts off review of Gitmo cases
The NYPD April 2 defended its surveillance of political activists before the 2004 Republican National Convention (RNC). The NYPD statement admitted “detectives collected information both in-state and out-of-state to learn in advance what was coming our way,” but said the… Read moreNYPD flexes espionage muscle
A high-level al-Qaeda suspect who was in CIA custody for more than four years has alleged that his US captors tortured him into making false confessions about terrorist attacks in the Middle East, according to newly released Pentagon transcripts of… Read moreGitmo tribunal reveals torture charge
According to reports in major Dominican dailies on March 30, the Central Electoral Council (JCE) is planning to annul the Dominican birth certificate of human rights activist Sonia Pierre, the head of the Dominican-Haitian Women’s Movement (MUDHA). JCE chief inspector… Read moreDominico-Haitians face threat to citizenship
According to residents of Puerto Nuevo, in the Ecuadoran province of Sucumbios near the border with Colombia, on March 22 Colombian soldiers fired a grenade at the home of Ecuadoran citizen Jorge Plaza Mantilla in Puerto Nuevo. Fifteen Colombian soldiers… Read moreEcuador: Colombian military kills two
On March 24, Brazilian federal police and environmental agents shut down a major deep-water port on the Amazon River owned by Cargill Inc., saying the US-based multinational agribusiness firm failed to provide an environmental impact statement required by law. Cargill’s… Read moreBrazil: Cargill’s Amazon port shut down
At least 475 youths were arrested and about 100 police agents were injured in clashes in Santiago on March 29 when Chilean students, mostly from secondary schools, carried out their annual march for the Day of the Young Combatant. Some… Read moreChile: hundreds arrested in protest
The family of independent US journalist Bradley Roland Will traveled to Mexico the week of March 19 to demand an impartial investigation of his death in Oaxaca on Oct. 27. The Oaxaca state attorney general, Rosa Lizbeth Caña Cadeza, has… Read moreOaxaca: demand probe of Brad Will’s death
