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Letter from Maryam Alkhawaja to Kim Kardashian
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[The following letter was issued by Maryam Alkhawwaja, Acting President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, on 29 November 2012.] Dear Ms. Kardashian, My name is Maryam Alkhawaja, and I am writing in my capacity as the Acting President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR). [Our work has been recognized by a number of international human rights bodies over the last few years- see below.] I am pleased that you’ll be visiting Bahrain, and that you’re ...
Keep Reading »Israeli Supreme Court Hearing on Petition Against Anti-Boycott Law Set for 5 December
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[The following statement was issued by the Who Profits? project and was first published on the BDS Movement website on 1 December 2012.] On Wednesday, 5 December 2012, the Israeli Supreme Court will conduct a hearing on the petition filed by the Coalition of Women for Peace against the anti-boycott law, which was passed by the Knesset in July 2011. This anti-democratic law is a blunt violation of political and civil liberties and is ...
Keep Reading »Reports Roundup (December 1)
[The following list is a compilation of the reports, statements, and other materials featured on the Jadaliyya Reports Page this past week.] Joint Statement by Twenty-Two Egyptian Rights Organizations on Morsi Declaration Egyptian rights organizations came together to reject Morsi's constitutional declaration as an attack on the judiciary and rule of law. America's Native Prisoners of War Aaron Huey's TEDx presentation traces the history of settlers and ...
Keep Reading »Egypt: New Constitution Mixed on Support of Rights
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[The following statement was issued by Human Rights Watch on 30 November 2012.] The final draft of a constitution approved on 29 November 2012 by Egypt’s 100-member constituent assembly protects some rights but undermines others. The constitution, approved in the midst of a political standoff between the president and the judiciary, provides for basic protections against arbitrary detention and torture and for some economic rights but fails to end military trials of ...
Keep Reading »How Syria Turned Off the Internet
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[The following report on internet outage in Syria on 29 November 2012 was produced and published by CloudFare on the same date.] Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1029 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped. At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off. We have spent the morning studying the situation to understand what happened. The following graph shows the last several days of traffic coming to CloudFlare's network from Syria. Since the ...
Keep Reading »Qatar: Outrageous Life Sentence for 'Jasmine Poet' (Video)
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[The following report, issued by Amnesty International on 29 November 2012, documents the sentencing of Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb for the publication of his "Jasmine Poem." The video that follows is a recitation of that poem.] A life sentence handed today to a Qatari poet has all the hallmarks of an outrageous betrayal of free speech, Amnesty International has said. Mohammed al-Ajami, also known as Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb, was tried on charges of incitement ...
Keep Reading »Palestine at the United Nations: A Vote for Peace and Justice
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[The following report was issued by the Palestine Liberation Organization on 29 November 2012.] Palestine at the United Nations: A Vote for Peace and Justice We are pleased to have released the latest publication made by the PLO – Negotiations Affairs Department entitled “Palestine at the United Nations: A Vote for Peace and Justice.” Copies of this study will be distributed in a few hours to all member states of the United Nations before the vote to ...
Keep Reading »UAE: Cybercrimes Decree Attacks Free Speech
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[The following report was issued by Human Rights Watch on 28 November 2012.] (Beirut) – A new federal decree on cybercrimes in the United Arab Emirates effectively closes off the country’s only remaining forum for free speech. The decree poses a serious threat to the liberty of peaceful activists and ordinary citizens alike. The UAE president, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, issued Federal Legal Decree No. 5/ 2012 on combating cybercrimes on November 12, 2012. ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers -- New Media, New Politics? (post-) Revolutions in Theory and Practice? (London, 26 April 2013)
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New Media, New Politics?(post-) Revolutions in Theory and Practice Friday, 26 April, 2013 University of Westminster, London, UK It has been two years since the world witnessed millions of Arabs march, strike and fight to remove their repressive regimes. As the Arab popular struggles coincided with a deepening global economic crisis, they found resonance across the globe. We saw the Occupy Movement and Spain’s indignados referring to Tahrir Square, exchanging mutual ...
Keep Reading »Egypt: A Year of Abuses Against Detained Children
[The following report was issued by Human Rights Watch on 20 November 2012.] Egyptian police and military officers have arrested and detained over 300 children during protests in Cairo over the past year, in some cases beating or torturing them, Human Rights Watch said today. Frequently, these children were illegally jailed with adult prisoners, tried in adult courts, and denied their rights to counsel and notification of their families. Human Rights Watch found ...
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