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Anamorphosis I. Nov 19, 2005 Haditha, Al-Anbar Province, Iraq Kilo Company, Third Battalion, First Marine Division . . . Twenty-four unarmed Iraqi civilians Including: A seventy-six year old amputee In a wheelchair Holding a Qur’an A mother and child bent over Six children ranging in age from one to fourteen . . . Execution style II. December 2005 The U.S. military paid $2,500 (condolence payments) per victim to families of fifteen of the dead Iraqis. A total of $38,000. III. “Shoot first, ask questions later” were Sgt. Wuterich’s orders to his men as they searched nearby homes after a roadside bomb attack killed one Marine and injured two ...
Keep Reading »ظاهرة حرق الدواليب تخترق قصور العدل: الحق في محضر العصبية
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خلال الأشهر الماضية، شهد الرأي العام اللبناني نشوء ظاهرة جديدة مفادها قيام مجموعات بحرق دواليب وقطع طرق وأحياناً التسبب باشكالات أمنية بالغة الخطورة للضغط على القضاء لاتخاذ قرار معين. وقد تجلت هذه الظاهرة بشكل خاص مع توقيف الشاب شادي المولوي بتهمة انتمائه إلى تنظيم إرهابي مسلح. فقد أعقب ذلك اعتصام في ساحة النور مع قطع طرقات في أماكن متفرقة، فضلاً عن اشتعال المنطقة الفاصلة بين باب التبانة، جبل محسن (يراجع الإعلام في الفترة الفاصلة بين توقيفه في 12-5 والإفراج عنه في 23-5). وتبعاً لنجاح هذا الأسلوب، سارع بعض المطالبين بالافراج عن موقوفي فتح الاسلام والذين قاربت مدة احتجاز عدد منهم خمس سنوات من دون محاكمة بل من دون صدور قرار إتهامي إلى اعتماده. وكانت هذه القضية قد شهدت منذ ...
Keep Reading »CIA: KUBARK's Very Long Shadow
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A 2011 FBI "primer" on overseas interrogations, which became public on August 2, 2012, as a result of Freedom of Information Act action taken by the American Civil Liberties Union, repeatedly cites the Central Intelligence Agency's 1963 KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation. KUBARK was the code name the CIA used for itself. The FBI briefing also cites the CIA's 1983 Human Resource Exploitation Manual (Honduras version) which was compiled by sections of KUBARK to train interrogators in the art of obtaining intelligence from "resistant sources". This was disseminated to the intelligence services of right-wing regimes in Latin America and south-east ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (30 July)
![[Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, current location of detainee Omar Khadr and other designated 'enemy combatants'. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_Camp_delta.jpg "[Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, current location of detainee Omar Khadr and other designated 'enemy combatants'. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "Saudi student Aldawsari convicted in failed bomb plot seeks new trial in Texas", Associated Press The Associated Press reports that attorneys for Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, convicted in Texas last month of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, have field a request for a new trial in a ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Politics: Representation and Accountability (Lecture)
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This is a video and transcript from a lecture I delivered on 18 July 2012 at the Palestine Center. It is the third and final installment of the Center's Summer Intern Lecture Series. In this talk, entitled Palestinian Politics: Representation and Accountability, I revisit the the UN Statehood Bid and discuss how the Palestinian leadership has and has not taken necessary steps to lead the Palestinian nation to independence and self-determination. I conclude by recommending possible ways forward for the Palestinian people, who retain the right and responsibility to respond to these current challenges. I sum up the popular will of Palestinians as a desire for a ...
Keep Reading »Iraq: Cybercrimes Law Violates Free Speech
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[The following report was issued by Human Rights Watch on 12 July 2012.] Iraq's Information Crimes Law: Badly Written Provisions and Draconian Punishments Violate Due Process and Free Speech Summary Iraq’s government is in the process of enacting what it refers to as an Information Crimes Law to regulate the use of information networks, computers, and other electronic devices and systems. The proposed law had its first reading before Iraq’s Council of Representatives on July 27, 2011; a second reading is expected as early as July 2012. As currently drafted, the proposed legislation violates international standards protecting due process, ...
Keep Reading »IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group Expresses Concern Over Closing of Media Reform Body
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[The following statement was issued by the International Freedom of Expression Exchange Tunisia Monitoring Group on 9 July 2012. The statement was prompted by the voluntary termination of the activities of the National Authority to Reform Information and Communication, an independent body tasked with reforming the Tunisian media, in response to continued government obstruction of its work.] The International Freedom of Expression Exchange Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG), a coalition of twenty-one IFEX members, is deeply concerned by the prevailing uncertainty and obstruction that have led the National Authority to Reform Information and Communication (INRIC) ...
Keep Reading »Victimizing the Employer: Gulf Media's Backward Reporting
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[The following article was published by Migrant Rights on 26 June 2012.] Imbalanced media reporting is a regular topic featured by Migrant Rights; migrants are too often spoken of, but rarely spoken to, as employers and government officials dominate the narrative surrounding foreign worker issues. The public perception of migrants is consequently distorted –one-sided and so skewed it appears deliberately manipulated. The escalating number of employer-centric, alarmist pieces published by Gulf papers contributes to this propagandist character. We’ve dissected several pieces written by employers claiming victimization from “crazy,” “dangerous,” ...
Keep Reading »Yemen: Enduring Conflicts, Threatened Transition
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[The following is the latest from International Crisis Group (ICG) on Yemen.] YEMEN: ENDURING CONFLICTS, THREATENED TRANSITION As messy as it has been and unfinished as it remains, Yemen’s transition accomplished two critical goals: avoiding a potentially devastating civil war and securing the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had ruled the impoverished country for over three decades. It also cracked the regime’s foundations, while making it possible to imagine new rules of the game. Still, much remains in doubt, notably the scope and direction of change. The nation essentially has witnessed a political game of musical chairs, one elite ...
Keep Reading »The Palestinian Authority, UNESCO, and the Illusion of Triumph
![[PA police forces confronting Palestinians protesting against the invitation of Shaul Mofaz to Ramallah. Image by Eoin O'Ceallaigh/Stop the Wall.]](/content_images/3/sm_stwpic.jpg "[PA police forces confronting Palestinians protesting against the invitation of Shaul Mofaz to Ramallah. Image by Eoin O'Ceallaigh/Stop the Wall.]")
Over one weekend, two seemingly incongruous sets of images dominated the news from Palestine: one set displayed local tourism operators and Palestinian Authority (PA) officials in Bethlehem celebrating the designation of the Nativity Church as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The other set of images, coming from Ramallah, showed PA police and thugs beating protestors, who had taken to the streets in anger over a scheduled (but later cancelled) Ramallah meeting between Israel’s Vice Premier Shaul Mofaz and PA President Mahmoud Abbas. The two sets of images together depict the sad and poignant reality of the occupation and the PA statehood bid. That reality is of an unelected ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (2 July)
![[A US Soldier observes an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in Afghanistan. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_Class1_uav.jpg "[A US Soldier observes an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in Afghanistan. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "Sudan Deports Egyptian Journalist and Detains Bloggers as Protests Continue”, Robert Mackey In response to mass demonstrations against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's recent round of austerity measures, Sudan has deported Salma El Wardany, an Egyptian journalist, and detained blogger Maha ...
Keep Reading »Testimony of Bahrain Political Prisoner Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja to Supreme Court of Appeals
[Below is the translated text of the statement given by Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja before the Bahrain Supreme Court of Appeals on 22 May 2012. This particular text was made available by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) on 26 June 2012, the International Day Against Torture. For more on Al-Khawaja's trial and the Bahrain uprising, see the links at the bottom of this post. For background on the trial of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, read Jadaliyya's "Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja and Bahrain's Political Prisoners." For a recent analysis of the Bahraini uprising and the regime's supression of it, read Jadaliyya's "Bahrain: The Dragonfly's ...
Keep Reading »An Invisible Nation: The Gulf’s Stateless Communities
The issue of statelessness in the Gulf is as old as the post-colonial oil states from which they are actively being excluded. Until the 1980s, the status of the Bedoon was not seen as a political issue, with the fledgling governments more concerned with state building functions than with further limiting citizenship rights. The oil bust of the 1980s, however, strained the budgets of the Gulf regimes, who responded by constraining social services and restricting citizenship laws. The brunt of these ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (13 August)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "Egypt Demands Release of Its Citizen from Guantanamo", Cindy Galway Buys The International Law Professors Blog reports that ...
Keep Reading »Litigating the New Frontier in the War on Terror
In the landscape of the global “war on terror,” the Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union are veteran pioneers. CCR hacked into the “legal black hole” of Guantánamo by pursuing the first challenge, back in February 2002, to the denial of habeas corpus for people detained there incommunicado; they prevailed at the Supreme Court in 2004. The ACLU tunneled into the glacier of governmental secrecy with one Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit after another, ...
Keep Reading »The Identity of Al-Azhar and Its Doctrine
The proposed amendments to Article 2 of the constitution – giving Al-Azhar the final say in defining Islamic Law (Sharia) – is of critical importance, not only because it limits Islamic knowledge to Al-Azhar, but also because it transfers the debate over the institution of Al-Azhar to the issue of identity. Assigning an institution with the task of interpreting Sharia is unusual in Islam, where, traditionally, knowledge was not seen to be associated with any specific institution or religious ...
Keep Reading »نقاش الحرية الجنسية في المغرب بين الحقوقي والسياسي
الجو الذي يعيشه المغرب هذه الأيام شبيه بالجو السائد في بداية الألفية الثالثة، حين تقدم الأستاذ سعيد السعدي "بالخطة الوطنية لإدماج المرأة في التنمية" الجريئة، التي كانت ستنقل المرأة المغربية ملايين السنوات الضوئية إلى الأمام بسبب الجرأة التي امتلكها معدها في ذلك الوقت، ولكن مع وجود الفارق بين الجو السياسي السائد آنذاك واختلاف مواقع المتصارعين اليوم في جوقة السلطة. استطاعت تلك الخطة خلق الحدث وشغل حيز كبير من النقاشات التي شهدها مغرب تحول من ملك إلى ملك في ظرف انفتاح غير مسبوق، كان عماده ...
Keep Reading »Amnesty International Condemns Sentencing of Omani Activists
[The following statemwent was issued by Amnesty International on 17 July 2012.] The Omani authorities must drop the charges against a number of activists facing prison sentences merely for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression, Amnesty International said today. In the latest case on Monday, a court in the capital Muscat sentenced five activists to jail terms of between one year and 18 months on charges including publicly insulting the Sultan as well as using the ...
Keep Reading »War Against Activists: Coopting "Justice" and the Lack of Judicial Independence
As speculation continues about what potential opportunities and challenges the death of Prince Nayif has delivered to Saudi Arabia, it is worth examining the significant changes already underway, particularly in the Interior Ministry. As delineated in an earlier article, Nayif’s Interior Ministry has used the judicial branch to limit freedoms of speech and movement by administering travel bans as a deterrent to and punishment for political activism. Compounding this trend, the Interior Ministry is now ...
Keep Reading »Al-Haq: Legal Memorandum on State Responsibility in Relation to Israel’s Illegal Settlement Enterprise
[The following press release was issued by Al-Haq on 16 July 2012.] Al-Haq is pleased to announce the publication of “State Responsibility in Connection with Israel’s Illegal Settlement Enterprise in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” The new legal memorandum analyses the concept of State responsibility under customary international law and examines the recommendations of the 2004 International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the ...
Keep Reading »Human Rights Watch Calls for Due Process for Detained Libyan Ex-Prime Minister
[The following statement was issued by Human Rights Watch on 6 July 2012.] The Libyan authorities have yet to bring former prime minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi before a judge or inform him of the charges against him though he was extradited from Tunisia on 24 June, 2012, Human Rights Watch said today after visiting al-Mahmoudi in his prison cell in Tripoli. Al-Mahmoudi said that he had not suffered any abuse during his detention in Libya, but that he had been physically abused in detention in ...
Keep Reading »Chaos in Kuwait: Politics as Usual?
On 18 June, the Emir of Kuwait, Shaykh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, suspended parliament for a month to head off an escalating row between the cabinet and parliament, the latter of which was about to publicly grill the interior minister over the country’s citizenship laws. Two days later, the constitutional court stepped in with its own ruling that declared the sitting (but newly suspended) parliament to be illegal and called for the reinstatement of the previous parliament. The court’s rationale was that an ...
Keep Reading »Libya, Impunity, and the International Criminal Court
Last week, four staffers of the International Criminal Court (the ICC) who were part of Seif Gaddafi’s legal defense team were taken into custody in Libya on allegations that they were functioning as a conduit for conspiracy between Gaddafi and his political allies. The ICC is now plunged into a messy battle seeking release of its staff while moving forward with the Seif case in ways that strain for legitimacy within Libya. The local Zintan council leadership responsible for the detention of the legal ...
Keep Reading »Final Draft of Preamble to 2012 Tunisian Constitution--English Translation by Tunisia Live
This finalized draft of the preamble to the 2012 Tunisian Constitution was translated by Tunisia Live staff and is based on the official Arabic version, which was released by Constituent Assembly members on 4 June 2012: We, the deputies of the Tunisian People, members of the National Constituent Assembly, elected through the merits of the Revolution of dignity, freedom, and justice, With pride for our people’s struggle, and in response to the aims of the revolution — which was the culmination of the ...
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