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Human Rights January 4, 2008

Blogging in the Arab World

“If it’s longer than three days, I want this message to reach everyone. I don’t want to be forgotten in jail,” wrote Fouad al-Farhan, a 32 year-old Saudi, to a
Human RightsPalestine January 4, 2008

Ungenerous occupier: Israel’s Camp David exposed

After seven years of rumors and self-serving memoirs, the Israeli media has finally published extracts from an official source about the Camp David negotiations in summer 2000. For the first
Human Rights January 4, 2008

The Innocent

Here’s a Egyptian classic film you should try to get hold of its uncensored copy…
Human Rights January 4, 2008

Bhutto Assassination: Muslim Governments Must Stop Playing with Fire

The tragic and violent killing of Benazir Bhutto leaves us with many unanswered questions. The question remains as to who was really responsible, and some radical Islamist groups have claimed
Human RightsInterviewsMilitary TribunalPrisoners of Conscience January 4, 2008

Ragaae Atiya: MB Military Tribunal Illegitimate, Defense Merely a Décor

Withdrawal of the Egyptian lawyer Ragaae Atiya from the case of 40 Muslim Brotherhood leaders standing trial in front of the Military Tribunal, topped by MB second deputy chairman Khairat
Human RightsReports January 4, 2008

Who Killed Bhutto?

Weird, isn’t it, how swiftly the narrative is laid down for us. Benazir Bhutto, the courageous leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, is assassinated in Rawalpindi--attached to the very capital
ActivitesParliament RequestsReform Issues January 4, 2008

Nazif under fire

Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif was bullish in defence of his two-year-old government’s economic policies, insisting that it had notched up a series of successes, introducing much needed reforms that had
Human RightsPalestine January 4, 2008

The Palestine that we struggle for

Last Tuesday’s demonstrations, which brought thousands onto the streets of Ramallah, Hebron, Tulkarem, Nablus and Gaza in defiance of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) attempt to silence the peoples’ voice, represented
Reports January 4, 2008

Al-Jazeera and Saudi Arabia

I’ve gotten a lot of calls from journalists over the last year or two with questions about alleged changes in al-Jazeera. To me, the best indication that little had really
Human RightsMB VS. Qaeda January 4, 2008

Calls for Intervention in Pakistan

-Qaeda is now as much a Pakistani phenomenon as it is an Arab or foreign element," declares Najam Sethi, editor of Pakistan’s Daily Times. It is not just the Arabs,