Kazmi has been detained without charge for over 90 days. Contents 1. Summary 2. Background 3. Action required 4. Sample letter 5. Addresses for sample letters 1. Summary Syed Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi has been detained without charge since 6 March 2012. The courts have repeatedly extended his remand in order to build a case against…
[Forwarded Press Release] The latest figures show that Black and Asian people are disproportionately stopped and searched compared to their white counterparts. The research from the Equality and Human rights Commission (EHRC) shows that the injustice of stop and search has continued without an end in sight. The figures show that police forces are 28…
Joint press statement CI, UJN, ABIM, MAPIM, SHURA, KUMS-Malaysia, TERAS, PUM, WADAH, SALIMAH, GAMIS, PKPIM, PUK, MSA-Stevens, UNIROD PERMUAFAKAT Citizens International strongly condemns the recent brutal murder of 10 innocent Rohingyas by the Rakhinese extremists and the failure of the authorities to protect the Rohingya civilian population. According to media reports, the killing was triggered…
Palestinian national team footballer detained without trial for three years. Contents 1. Summary 2. Background 3. Action required 4. Sample letter 1. Summary Mahmoud Sarsak has been on hunger strike in an Israeli prison for 89 days and is near death. Sarsak has been detained without charge for three years. He was arrested under the…
By Jonathan Lis The government has approved the legalization of 13 outposts; five cannot be legalized, because they are on private Palestinian land, and are slated for evacuation. posted June 07, 2012 by Haaretz With the government announcing plans to legalize 13 of the 18 West Bank settlement outposts against which petitions to the High…
by Doron Tsur Changes in the currents of the global economy, far more serious than the debt crisis in Greece and Spain, are afoot. Their impact on Southeast Asia may be much more severe than any damage caused in Europe and North America. posted June 07, 2012 by Haaretz One of the most important natural…
by Chemi Shalev posted June 9, 2012 by Haaretz In wide-ranging interview, Former ambassador Richard Williamson says U.S. Republican candidate will make military threats against Tehran credible, arm Syria’s rebels, and visit Israel before going anywhere else. Q. Governor Romney has said that he thinks that the US should arm the rebels in Syria. Given…
by John Rosenthal posted June 9, 2012 by National Review It was, in the words of U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan, the “tipping point” in the Syria conflict: a savage massacre of over 90 people, predominantly women and children, for which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad was immediately blamed by virtually the entirety of…
posted June 7, 2012 by Al-Manar The Israeli occupation had announced plans on Wednesday to build 851 new homes for settlers in the occupied West Bank after parliament defeated a bill to sanction all settler apartments on privately-owned Palestinian land. Palestinians insist Israeli settlements, built on land Israel captured in a 1967 war, will deny…
“This is unacceptable. It cannot be tolerated,” by Robert Dreyfuss posted June 7, 2012 by The Nation Leon Panetta, the over-his-head U.S. secretary of defense, is in Afghanistan today after a day on which the greatest number of civilians were killed so far in 2012. But Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, isn’t there. He’s in…