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Honduran Government Wages Campaign of Fear and Intimidation, Human Rights Group Alleges » The report, by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), found instances of sexual violence, excessive use of military force, arbitrary detention and several confirmed deaths and so-called "disappearances." The IACHR also alleged that the government has threatened, detained and beaten members of the media, creating "an atmosphere of intimidation that inhibits the free exercise of freedom of expression." "Given the ongoing abuses documented by the Commission and the lack of effective...
Ousted president Zelaya briefly steps into Honduras » OCOTAL, July 25 (AP): Ousted President Manuel Zelaya stood on the edge of his country and called on his fellow Hondurans to resist the coup-installed government. Then he quickly retreated back to Nicaraguan territory, saying he wanted to avoid bloodshed and give negotiations another try. His foray Friday brought the Honduran political crisis no closer to a resolution - and irritated some foreign leaders who are trying to help Zelaya reclaim his post.Still, his brief but dramatic excursion a few ...
Aung San Suu Kyi found guilty of breaking house arrest » Aung San Suu Kyi will spend the next year and a half under guard at her home in Rangoon after a court today found her guilty of breaking the terms of her house arrest. The sentence means she will play no part in elections the military junta has promised to hold early next year.The 64-year-old learned her fate in a few minutes of courtroom drama, witnessed by journalists and diplomats from the same countries that have been calling for her immediate and unconditional release.
Iranian Prosecutors Seek to Shut 2 Reform Parties » Iran’s prosecutors moved Tuesday to shut down the nation’s two largest reform parties during a mass trial of former officials, journalists and academics all arrested and charged with conspiring to orchestrate a so-called velvet revolution in Iran.A mass trial on Tuesday in Tehran for those arrested and charged with conspiring to orchestrate a so-called velvet revolution. In the nationally televised hearing, the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sought to repudiate not only individuals ...
More students arrested in Bindura » Four more students were arrested on Monday at the Bindura University, in what appears to be an intensifying clampdown on student activists in the country.The four student leaders were arrested during a campaign meeting at the Bindura University of Science Education, where SRC elections have been underway. The group, including outgoing SRC President Respect Ndanga, had just finished addressing students at a campaign rally for one of the new presidential candidates, Paul Dakarai. The students were...
Free Palestine: End the Occupation (Mahatma Gandhi) » Several letters have been received by me asking me to declare my views about the Arab-Jew question in Palestine and the persecution of the Jews in Germany. It is not without hesitation that I venture to offer my views on this very difficult question. My sympathies are all with the Jews. I have known them intimately in South Africa. Some of them became lifelong companions. Through these friends I came to learn much of their age long persecution. They have been the untouchables of Christianity....
Betting the farm against Mugabe » Born and raised in Britain, Ben Freeth has become one of a handful of farmers in Zimbabwe to resist, often against violent intimidation, the seizure of his land. Now his fight is the subject of a film.How far would you go to keep your home? Most of us would consider legal action. But would you be willing to take on a dictator in court and risk the lives of your family? Ben Freeth has made that decision. The Briton along with his Zimbabwean family has for the past few years been in a tug of war f...
Honduras: Vote to Go Ahead Despite Int'l Refusal to Recognize » Although the international community has warned that it will not recognise the results of the November elections in Honduras, the de facto government in power since the Jun. 28 coup d'etat says the vote is going ahead.Costa Rican President Óscar Arias, who mediated the unsuccessful talks between ousted President Manuel Zelaya and the coup government, says the elections scheduled for Nov. 29 could be "a solution to the crisis." Others like prominent Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes have expressed si...
Lawyers Appeal Over Dissident » NEW YORK—Lawyers and Chinese civil rights activists are planning to lodge formal complaints with the United Nations and the Hong Kong government over the detention of former 1989 student democracy activist Zhou Yongjun on charges of “economic fraud” after he tried to visit his ailing father in 2008.A number of lawyers and civil rights activists said they were planning to lodge formal complaints over Zhou’s detention, especially as it took place in Hong Kong, where freedom of speech and the rule ...
Egyptian protesters are not just Facebook revolutionaries » The internet has galvanised dissidents, but the key events that fuelled the uprising happened offline Middle-class, urban, web-savvy – the archetypal media image of the young protesters who have shaken Egypt's dictatorship this week captures only part of the reality.This generation of dissidents, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the three-decade rule of President Hosni Mubarak, have rejected the moribund landscape of formal politics that has ensnared many of their liberal elders ...