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Back to homepageAvc?’s shady connections, tortures documented in book 0
Post Views: 15 MUSTAFA EDIB YILMAZ ?STANBUL Mehmet Baransu An investigative journalist has exposed dozens of illegal acts committed by former Chief of Police Hanefi Avc? during his career and how he used a recently published book to misguide people
Read MoreWikiLeaks cables claim al-Jazeera changed coverage to suit Qatari foreign policy 0
Post Views: 40 US embassy memos flatly contradict Arabic satellite channel’s insistence that it is editorially independent despite being heavily subsidised by Gulf state Robert Booth The Qatari prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, struck a deal with Egypt
Read MoreWikiLeaks fights to stay online amid attacks 0
Post Views: 10 WikiLeaks fights to keep the secrets flowing as governments, hackers go after its Web presence WikiLeaks became an Internet vagabond Friday, moving from one website to another as governments and hackers hounded the organization, trying to deprive
Read MoreRegional Trade Union Conference in Moscow – New Report Highlights Barriers to Union Rights 0
Post Views: 10 3A new ITUC report “Building Democracy and Trade Union Rights in the NIS” released in Moscow today highlights barriers to legitimate trade union organisation in the newly independent states, as patterns of union representation have evolved over
Read MoreICC: Keep Pledges to Strengthen International Justice 0
Post Views: 6 ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo talks to Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni after the opening of the ICC review conference in Kampala on May 31, 2010. © 2010 Reuters Related Materials: Human Rights
Read MoreNew York City: Bail Penalizes the Poor 0
Post Views: 9 Otis Bantum Correctional Center, a New York City Department of Correction facility on Rikers Island that houses detained adult men. © 2002-2010 Andrew Garn More Coverage: N.Y.C. Misdemeanor Defendants Lack Bail Money Thousands Accused of Minor
Read MoreCôte d’Ivoire: Ensure Security, Protect Expression, Movement 0
Post Views: 10 An Ivorian soldier passes members of the UN security force who were deployed to the election commission’s office in Abidjan on December 1, 2010. © 2010 Reuters Constitutional Council’s Overrule of Election Results Raises Risk of
Read MoreIraqi Interior Minister demands execution of al-Qai’da suspects 0
Post Views: 12 Jawad al-Bolani has abused his position as Iraqi Interior Minister © APGraphicsBank Amnesty International today strongly condemned a call by the Iraqi Interior Minister for the swift execution of 39 alleged al-Qai’da members as they were
Read MoreRussian prisoner of conscience: Amnesty letters were ‘connection to freedom’ 0
Post Views: 5 Click here to join Amnesty International’s Write for Rights letter-writing marathon © AI Sent to an Arctic penal colony for a crime he didn’t commit, Russian prisoner of conscience Igor Sutyagin lived for a few minutes
Read MoreThe New American Oligarchy 0
Post Views: 6 Creating a Country of the Rich, By the Rich, For the Rich There is a war underway. I’m not talking about Washington’s bloody misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, but a war within our own borders. It’s a
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