Jonathan Cook is a writer and journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. His latest books are “Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East” (Pluto Press) and “Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair” (Zed Books). His website is www.jkcook.net. CounterPunch September 22, 2010 A vague security offence [...]
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Amira Hass: Palestinian minors held 3 weeks on suspicion of arson
Two under-aged boys were each detained for a total of three weeks, including 10 days in a Shin Bet security, and six days in isolation. Haaretz Wed, August 18, 2010 Palestinian minors suspected of perpetrating even minor crimes against settlers are subject to extreme pressure during detention and interrogation in an effort to extract a [...]
Rights org condemns detention of political leaders after Flotilla raid
Electronic Intifada – 2 June 2010 The following press release was issued by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel on 2 June 2010: Last night, 1 June 2010, Judge Dina Cohen of the Magistrates’ Court in Ashkelon, after a nine-hour hearing before a packed courtroom, decided to extend the detention of [...]
Robert Fisk: Silenced for speaking the truth about Guantanamo
Independent - 15 May 2010 I began my column last week with the words “We know all about Guantanamo”. I was wrong. Courtesy of the Toronto press – until a few days ago, when half of them were censored out of the drumhead courts martial that pass for “justice” in this execrable place – I have [...]
Israeli raids targeting children
Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada - 17 March 2010 Silwan, Occupied East Jerusalem (IPS) – Three thousand heavily armed Israeli security service forces locked down large parts of the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday, as battalions of police fired rounds of tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian protesters in the occupied eastern part [...]
Israeli military court extends Hebron boy’s detention
Ma’an – Published today – 3 March 2010 Hebron – A Hebron child had his detention extended on Wednesday as he stood before an Israeli military tribunal at the Ofer prison, for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli forces. The father of Al-Hassan, 12, Fadl Al-Muhtaseb told Ma’an that his son had not been indicted for [...]
Islam Channel chief released by South African authorities
Mohamed Ali Harrath to mount legal challenge after arrest over claims he was linked to an alleged terror organisation John Plunkett guardian.co.uk – 26 January 2010 The head of the UK-based Islam Channel arrested in South Africa over alleged terror links was today released without charge. Mohamed Ali Harrath was arrested on Sunday after a [...]
How America Makes Its Enemies Disappear — The Intelligence Factory
By PETRA BARTOSIEWICZ CounterPunch - 18 January 2010 Editors’ Note: This week the trial of one of the most wanted women in the war on terrorism begins in a federal courtroom in Manhattan. The defendant, Aafia Siddiqui, is a 37-year-old, MIT-educated neuroscientist and suspected Al Qaeda operative. Siddiqui lived in the U.S. for ten years before [...]
Filling up Israel’s jails to no avail
The imprisonment of Palestinian activists such as Mohammad Othman aims to curb dissent – but it seems to be backfiring Seth Freedman guardian.co.uk – 20 October 2009 The plight of Palestinian activist Mohammad Othman has dominated the agendas of NGOs in the region ever since his detention in late September. However, while his case is [...]
Nato forces rely on illegal Afghan militias, report says
Troops in Afghanistan said to use private armies for detention and interrogation Julian Borger, diplomatic editor guardian.co.uk 16 September 2009 Nato forces in Afghanistan are increasingly reliant on illegal militias, often run by warlords responsible for human rights abuses and drug trafficking, according to an independent report published tomorrow.
The Post–9/11 Roundup of Innocents, Part 1
by James Bovard, James Bovard is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy [2006] as well as The Bush Betrayal [2004], Lost Rights [1994] and Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (Palgrave-Macmillan, September 2003) and serves as a policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation. Send him [...]
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