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20Jan

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Human Rights

Talking TORTURE Regarding Gitmo, Manning and Vanunu

NOVANEWS by Eileen Fleming Torture is defined as anguish of body or mind or something that causes agony or pain and only those without a functioning Conscience can inflict it upon any other human or any creature. Protesters Demand Closure of GITMO Mordechai Vanunu Addresses Israel’s Intent RE: Solitary Confinement PRESS RELEASE-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 15, 2011 Contact: Max Obuszewski [410] 366-1637 or mobuszewski at verizon.net BRADLEY MANNING SUPPORTERS DISAPPOINTED, BUT DETERMINED WHO: Bradley Manning, the army private accused of leaking classified information to Wikileaks, after close to 600 days of incarceration finally appeared in a military court on December 16, 2011. As this Article 32 hearing proceeded, the defense seemed limited by the choice of the judicial off...

18Jan

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Human Rights, ZIO-NAZI

Racist Discrimination Against Arabs

NOVANEWS by Stephen Lendman According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), Arab citizens (below called Israeli Arabs) “are discriminated (against) in almost every aspect of their lives,” including: employment; education; healthcare; housing; land; infrastructure; political representation; legislation; personal safety; socioeconomic status; family unification; and virtually all other aspects of their lives. According to ACRI: “One of the most important principles in a democracy is to protect the minority against….tyranny. A democratic state is by nature pluralistic and respectful of diversity among its citizens, and enables each group within its population that so wishes to maintain all the components of it...

18Jan

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Human Rights, ZIO-NAZI

Military Trial of 17-year old Amal Hamamdeh from Mufakarah. Charge: Spilling Water on Nazi Soldier

NOVANEWS As reported here, during home demolitions in the cave-dweller village of Mufakarah, two young women who resisted nonviolently were arrested and charged with “assaulting soldiers” under the Israeli Occupation’s draconian martial law. The older of the two, Sausan Hamamdeh, reached a plea bargain in December resulting in a fine. When reporting on that development, we were fairly confident that her 17-year-old cousin Amal Hamamdeh would see her charges dropped. After all, she just tried to hand Sausan a water bottle to wash her pepper-sprayed eyes, and when soldiers interfered some water were spilled on them. We were wrong. The first court session in Amal’s trial took place Sunday, Jabuary 15th 2012, at the military court and prison base of Ofer, in the West Bank north of Je...

13Jan

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Human Rights, USA

Guantanamo, Ten Years On

NOVANEWS Human Rights Watch on the Tenth Anniversary of Guantanamo The front gate of Camp Delta is shown at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay. © 2007 Reuters RELATED MATERIALS: US: Make Guantanamo’s 10th Anniversary Its Last Letter to President Obama: End Detention Without Trial and Close Guantanamo MORE COVERAGE: Guantanamo Ten Years On Guantanamo Ten Years On: Facts and Figures AP: Guantanamo closure hopes fade as prison turns 10 Huffington Post- Status Quo: GITMO Find out why Guantanamo remains open and how US counter-terrorism policy is threatening rights at home and abroad. With HRW's Andrea Prasow and Baher Azmy of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Despite promises by President Obama soon after his inaug...

9Jan

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Human Rights, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: Renewed Protests Defy Ban

NOVANEWS Release Imprisoned Advocates of Peaceful Reform MORE COVERAGE: More Human Rights Watch Reporting on Saudi Arabia Stop Arbitrary Arrests of Shia Free Islamic Scholar Who Criticized Ministry Dissident Writer Arrested Political Prisoners Released, New Ones Arrested Saudi Arabia is not immune to the Arab Spring. The basic human right to protest peacefully is all the more important in a place like Saudi Arabia, where there are almost no other means of participating in public affairs. Christoph Wilcke, Senior Middle East Researcher at Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – Saudi reform advocates have staged several protests since mid-December, 2011, despite a categorical ban on protests issued last March, Human Rights Watch said today. In Riyadh, Buraida, and Qatif, s...

7Jan

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Gaza, Human Rights

NAZI DELIBERATE POLICIES ' VIDEO'

NOVANEWS This video report tells the story of the child Firas Mazloom, born in Gaza, who has two holes in his heart. His condition could have been fixed by routine surgery, but Zio-Nazi siege on the Gaza Strip has crippled the medical system there. The reportage shows Firas’s parents struggle to take their son for life saving treatment out of Gaza and their hopeless efforts to overcome the impossible Nazi barriers facing them. Just when they finally managed to push through the red tape to get their son out of Gaza, Firas died. (Part II) an interview with Ran Yaron of PHR-IL, manager of the Occupied Palestinian territories department.

7Jan

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Human Rights

Systematic West Bank Settler Violence

NOVANEWS by Stephen Lendman NAZI'S AT WORK B’Tselem‘s been on the story for years. Settler violence is longstanding, troubling, and largely without accountability. Since September 2000 alone (the beginning of the second Intifada), the toll includes 50 Palestinians killed. Since December 1987 (the first Intifada’s onset), it’s 115, besides many more injured, including children. With few exceptions, settlers initiate unprovoked violence. More recently, those under the “Price Tag” slogan rampage out-of-control. B’Tselem documented numerous incidents, including blocking roads, stoning cars and homes, torching fields, uprooting trees and other crops, as well as other forms of violence and damage. In response, Israeli security forces do little despite a High Court ruling that “protecting the s...

7Jan

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Human Rights

Palestinian Children Detained Oppressively in Isolation

NOVANEWS NAZI AT WORK by Stephen Lendman DCI/Palestine “is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children,” according to international law principles. On December 28, it submitted a complaint to several UN authorities titled, “The use of solitary confinement on Palestinian children held in Israeli detention.” It’s specifically for five children held at Al Jalame and Petah Tikva interrogation centers in Israel. Their cases follow 29 others since February 2008. At both facilities, “solitary confinement is routinely used.” Though no universally agreed on definition exists, the Istanbul Statement on the Use and Effects of Solitary Confinement defines it as physicall...

1Jan

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Gaza, Human Rights

The Hanukkah Massacre in Gaza

12/30/2008 JUDAISM IN ITS FINEST HOUR The Hanukkah Massacre in Gaza by MARK GLENN The following article was forwarded by email from a White Nationalist who is also of Jewish descent. –Admin staff 2 “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their altars, break down their images, cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire. For you are a holy people unto the LORD thy God and He has chosen you to be a special people above all others upon the face of the earth…” –Book of Deuteronomy, 7:1-8 The aerial assault on Gaza thus far resulting in several hundred deaths and ...

1Jan

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Human Rights, USA

DOD Releases Sexual Assault Report, Announces New Policies

NOVANEWS By Karen Parrish American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 27, 2011 – Defense Department officials today released the “Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies,” covering the academic year from June 1, 2010, to May 31, 2011. The report shows an increase in reports of sexual assault, with 65 reports of sexual assault involving cadets and midshipmen, compared to 41 reports in the previous academic year. “One sexual assault is one too many,” Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said in a DOD news release. “Whether it’s in our academies or our ranks, at sea or ashore, there’s no place for this unacceptable behavior,” he continued. “We treat each other with dignity in this institution. I expect everyone in this department to live up to...