An Israeli military court sentenced non-violent protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rahmah of the West Bank’s Bil’in village to 12 months imprisonment, with a six-month suspended sentence.
The Israeli cabinet approved an amendment to the country’s citizenship law that would require those seeking citizenship to pledge allegiance to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state.”
A group of 45 US Congress members called on the United States not to support presidential and legislative elections in Haiti in November if 14 political parties continue to be excluded from the ballot.
Former US president Bill Clinton and Haitian leaders met with the group monitoring international earthquake recovery aid to hear proposals that benefit the private sector in the donor countries.
Ten indigenous Mapuche prisoners in Chile’s southern Araucanía region agreed to end a liquids-only hunger strike protesting the use of an “anti-terrorism” measure against indigenous activists.
Bolivian newspapers engaged in a protest against a proposed anti-racism law they claim would hurt freedom of expression, all running the headline “There is no democracy without freedom of expression.”
Former leader of the Inter-Ethnic Alliance for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP) Alberto Pizango held a press conference in Puno to announce his candidacy for president of Peru.
Seven Peruvian SOA graduates were convicted of aggravated murder, kidnapping, forced disappearance, and conspiracy for their roles in two massacres and the murder of a radio journalist.
Col. Manuel E. Rivadeneira Tello, a School of the Americas graduate, has been charged for last week’s unsuccessful coup attempt in Ecuador. Two other police leaders are under investigation.
UN talks on climate change in Tianjin are nearing a close with no clear consensus yet in sight as China and Brazil blocked discussion of extending the Kyoto Protocol.
On the heels of electoral reversals for his ruling party, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez announced new land expropriations to benefit the peasants, and called for creation of a popular militia force.
Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al-Ginco AKA Janko filed a lawsuit against the US military alleging that he was subjected to torture at the prison camp.
