Manuel Zelaya asks Hillary Clinton “to clarify to the Honduran people if the position condemning the coup d’etat has been changed or modified” in response to State Department equivocation.
The National Front of Resistance to the Coup d’Etat in Honduras issued a statement calling the new pact “a popular victory,” while dissident voices denounced it as a “reactionary accord.”
Pressure from investors and widespread repudiation of legal justifications for the coup prompted the US-brokered agreement to return Manuel Zelaya to power in Honduras.
The International Tribunal on Freedom of Association stated that it is “scandalized by the gravity of labor rights violations and the violence against workers that is occurring in Mexico.”
The Security Council approved a one-year extension of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), as President Obama certified Haiti as having fulfilled workers’ rights criteria.
The US Department of Justice announced that Mexico’s extradition of 11 fugitives to the United States the previous day has brought the number of extraditions this year to a record 100.
The federal government has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle the cases of five Muslim immigrants were among hundreds detained without charge for months after 9-11.
A federal appeals court ruled that Canadian citizen Maher Arar cannot sue the US for damages based on his detention and torture in Syria after he was mistakenly identified as a terrorist.
The past 10 months have seen the highest number of Africans reaching Yemeni shores compared to figures for the same period in 2008 and 2007, when large numbers began travelling to Yemen by boat.
Six Chinese Uighur Guantánamo Bay detainees were transferred to the Republic of Palau, according to the Justice Department. With the transfer, seven Uighurs remain in custody at Guantánamo.
Arab leaders reacted angrily after Hillary Clinton departed from her administration’s insistence that Israel halt settlement growth, instead applauding Tel Aviv’s “restraint on the policy of settlements.”
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