Stuff I noticed in the recent HumanRightsWatch digest I got... If you ever need a reason to not visit the United States, check out some of the quotes in the press release about the muslim men jailed. How about some unwanted extension of your holiday in the states? 🙁
Operating behind a wall of secrecy, the U.S. Department of Justice thrust scores of Muslim men living in the United States into a Kafkaesque world of indefinite detention without charge and baseless accusations of terrorist links, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a report released today.
Press Release: http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/06/27/usdom11213.htm
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/06/27/usdom11213.htm
June 27, 2005
Members of the Israeli Knesset are debating a bill that would prohibit residents in the Occupied Palestinian Territories from seeking compensation for death or injury at the hands of Israeli soldiers, even if the soldiers are found to have acted unlawfully.
Press Release: http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/06/24/israb11223.htm
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/06/24/israb11223.htm
June 26, 2005
Joint letter to Tony Blair from Human Rights Watch and Liberty
Human Rights Watch and Liberty are deeply concerned about the British government’s stated intention to seek diplomatic assurances against torture in order to deport terrorism suspects to their home countries or to third countries where they would be at risk of torture and other ill- treatment. Human Rights Watch and Liberty consider returns on the basis of such assurances as incompatible with the international prohibition on the return of persons to countries where they face a risk of torture (nonrefoulement). We urge you to reconsider this fatally flawed initiative and immediately to halt any negotiations with countries of return regarding securing such assurances.
Letter: http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/06/23/uk11219.htm
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/06/23/uk11219.htm
June 23, 2005