[Translation presented as received] Statement number (112) issued from the Iraqi Islamic Party Regarding the kidnap of the Four Captives By the time that the Iraqi Islamic Party calls upon all Muslims to give the best image that represents our… Read moreIraqi Islamic Party calls for captives’ release
Statement from Toronto security-certificate detainees on James Loney: From Mahmoud Jaballah, Mohammad Mahjoub and Hassan – Dec. 4,.2005 [original statement in Arabic and English in PDF] Statement from the three Toronto security certificate detainees. James (Jim) Loney is from Toronto,… Read moreCanadian “security detainees” speak out for Iraq hostages
Iraq’s armed guerillas are usually portrayed in vague and shadowy terms, allowing political commentators to cast them in whatever image is deemed convenient. Even the correct word to designate them says more about the commentator than the militants themselves. Those… Read moreAnatomy of Iraq’s insurgency
The case of Chad’s former president Hissène Habré, now fighting a Belgian extradition request on atrocity charges, will be handed over to African Union leaders to decide next month, Senegal’s government announced. Senegal’s Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio said Nov…. Read moreAfrican Union to decide in Chad war crimes case
The Bush administration decided to charge designated “enemy combatant” Jose Padilla, a US citizen who was initially said to have been preparing a radioactive “dirty bomb” attack on US soil, with less serious crimes because it was unwilling to allow… Read morePadilla case raises torture concerns
On Nov. 16, Brazilian landless workers Vanderlei Macena Cruz and Mauro Gomes Duarte, residents of Accampamento Renascer (Rebirth Encampment), were assassinated while riding a motorcycle to work near Gleba Gama, in the Nova Guarita region of Brazil’s Mato Grosso state…. Read moreParamilitary terror in Brazil
On Nov. 19 and 20, some 19,000 people gathered outside the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia to demand a dramatic shift in US foreign policy and the closure of the US Defense Department’s Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC),… Read more20,000 protest School of the Americas
A Saudi secondary school teacher has been ordered imprisoned for three years for blasphemy, and sentenced to 750 lashes, to be delivered—50 a week—in the public market of the town of al-Bikeriya. Chemistry teacher Muhammad al-Harbi of Qassim province was… Read moreSaudi teacher jailed for blasphemy
More arrests in Italy–but note that this time they are being held under a new post-9-11 law that considerably dumbs down the standards for detaining suspects. These standards were weakened still further following the London attacks this summer, as the… Read moreSalafist cell busted in Italy?
Guatemala's anti-drug chief and two of his senior officials were arrested Nov. 16 on charges of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine in the United States. The Guatemalan government assisted in the investigation but the arrests were an embarrassment for… Read moreGuatemalan drug czar busted
Human rights groups have strongly condemned the ruling by Uzbekistan’s supreme court finding 15 defendants guilty of terrorism and sentencing them up to 20 years for their role in the May violence in Andijan. “It was expected and some could… Read moreUzbekistan concludes “show trial”; signs defense pact with Russia
Two Iraqi men arrested in Iraq in 2003 but never charged with any crimes now say US troops put them in a cage with lions, subjected them to a mock execution, and humiliated them during interrogations at various detention facilities…. Read moreIraq detainees: US troops threw us to lions
