The dictators lunching with the Queen
Bahrain’s King Hamad and Swaziland’s King Mswati III among those having a Jubilee lunch with the Queen… In act that’s likely to be seen as an affront to those fighting for democracy in countries around the world, the Queen will today sit down with bloody dictators to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee at a [...]
Notorious torture prison in use a year after government said it was shut down… Iraq’s government has been carrying out mass arrests and unlawfully detaining people in the notorious Camp Honor prison facility in Baghdad’s Green Zone, based on numerous interviews with victims, witnesses, family members, and government officials. The government had claimed [...]
Continue reading …Rights group calls on Nato to investigate civilian deaths that resulted from air strikes… The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has failed to acknowledge dozens of civilian casualties from air strikes during its 2011 Libya campaign, and has not investigated possible unlawful attacks, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 76-page report, [...]
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How a blasphemy conviction is a worrying sign for Tunisia’s revolution… Nabil Karoui, owner-manager of Tunisia’s Nessma TV, was recently convicted on charges of blasphemy for broadcasting the animated film Persepolis. Persepolis is based on the celebrated graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi which relates her life growing up in post-revolutionary Iran. The October [...]
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In Libya, Gaddafi’s former torturers have had a dramatic reversal of fortune… One night last September, a prisoner named Naji Najjar was brought, blindfolded and handcuffed, to an abandoned military base on the outskirts of Tripoli. A group of young men in camouflage pushed him into a dimly lit interrogation room and forced [...]
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Has the Arab Spring diverted our attention from endemic racism in the Middle East? Writing in The Independent, Robert Fisk says that the Arab Spring has for the moment glossed over the huge problem with racism in Middle East and Arab countries, even as the West looks ever inward at its problems with [...]
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New legislation criminalises free speech and those who ‘damage’ the revolution… Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) should immediately revoke a new law that bans insults against the people of Libya or its institutions, Human Rights Watch said today. The law also prohibits criticism of the country’s 2011 revolution and glorification of the deposed [...]
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Columnist faces backlash over article on the plight of women in Arab countries… Egyptian-American columnist Mona Eltahawy has once again sparked controversy with an article in Foreign Policy magazine on April 23, 2012, entitled “Why Do They Hate Us?” about discrimination against women in the Middle East. Eltahawy argues that Arab societies are fundamentally misogynistic and that endless abuses [...]
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