Human Rights

Articles

• Palestine: The great march of return
  2 April 2019, by siawi3

  n each of the punctual bombings of Gaza since Operation Hot Winter (2008), Israel has targeted Gaza’s power plant and its water sources (wells, water towers, sewage pipelines and sewage treatment plants). Millions of dollars of damage are done to Gaza’s infrastructure, which then cannot be repaired because Israel prevents materials from entering the enclave. Because of the Israeli bombings and Israeli embargo, Gaza, the United Nations has found, will become “uninhabitable by 2020.”

• UK: WikiLeaks Source Says They’re Coming For Assange
  6 April 2019, by siawi3

  The WikiLeaks Twitter account has announced that it has high level information that the organization’s founder Julian Assange could have his political asylum the Ecuadorian embassy revoked for him to be arrested by the British government within hours. We need to be ready to shake the earth should this happen. We need all hands on deck for this one. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture released a press release saying:“In my assessment, if Mr. Assange were to be expelled from the Embassy of Ecuador, he is likely to be arrested by British authorities and extradited to the United States,” said the UN expert. “Such a response could expose him to a real risk of serious violations of his human rights, including his freedom of expression, his right to a fair trial and the prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

• Israel-Palestine: Lawyers Worldwide Urge International Court: Investigate Israeli Crimes
  11 April 2019, by siawi3

  The lawyers’ petition was inspired by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers’ previous international call for lawyers to support the campaign to free Nelson Mandela in the 1980s. Just as that campaign “proved to be for those living under Apartheid in South Africa,” the current petition “is an essential first step in securing equal justice under law” for the Palestinian people.

• Palestine: Gaza, Stonewall: Izzy Mustafa On Why People Rise Up
  11 April 2019, by siawi3

  For the first time in decades, Palestinian civil society has come together in this mass mobilization to demand their human rights. Because the circumstances in Gaza are dire. Gaza is one of the most impoverished places in the world.

• France : 4 mai 1978, l’assassinat d’Henri Curiel : vérités évidentes, justice empêchée
  1er mai 2019, par siawi3

  Il y a quarante ans, le 4 mai 1978, Henri Curiel était assassiné à Paris. Le général Aussaresses admettra ne pas être étranger à l’assassinat d’Henri. Les services français, quels qu’ils soient, auront certainement fêté le meurtre « d’Henri Curiel, traitre à la France qui l’avait accueilli », selon les termes du commando Delta, qui revendiqua le crime.

• ‘Weaponizing Human Rights’: UN Chief Bachelet’s Venezuela Report Follows US Regime Change Script
  11 July 2019, by siawi3

  Apparently unmoved by the testimony of Figuera’s grieving mother, or anyone else’s story of injury and suffering, Bachelet made no mention of opposition violence in her report. Her failure to properly detail the plight of Venezuelans who have suffered at the hands of anti-government rioters was just one of many glaring omissions which has one of the top international legal experts to have served at the UN calling the high commissioner’s objectivity into question.

• UK: Julian Assange ne sera pas extradé vers un pays où il encourt la peine de mort, assurent les autorités britanniques
  16 July 2019, by siawi3

  Le fondateur de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, ne sera pas extradé vers un pays où il pourrait risquer la peine de mort, a assuré, lundi 15 juillet, le ministre d’Etat britannique pour l’Europe et les Amériques. C’est “une condition fondamentale de l’accord auquel nous sommes parvenus (...). Cette garantie reste solide”

• Top Assange Defense Account Deleted By Twitter
  15 July 2019, by siawi3

  “I have no doubt that @Unity4J’s twitter account was suspended because it was a hub of useful information on solidarity events and actions in support of Assange, WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning and more. ”

• Algérie : La Repression en marche
  16 juillet 2019, par siawi3

  Alors que la répression s’accentue et que les condamnations de manifestants se multiplient, le chef de l’état-major algérien, Ahmed Gaïd Salah, a mis en garde ceux qui s’opposent à l’armée, mercredi 10 juillet. Il a aussi réitéré sa confiance dans le président par intérim, dont le mandat officiel est arrivé à terme mardi. Protestations des avocats et le l’organisation des anciens moudjahidines.

• USA: Liberals use ‘human rights’ to push coup in Venezuela
  17 July 2019, by siawi3

  The modern way to overthrow a government the capitalist world doesn’t like is by claiming to do it in the name of supporting ‘human rights’. This requires that the target be portrayed as a rights violator.

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