For shame, Morocco January 10, 2007
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This is depressing - Driss Ksikes is one of my favorite journalists in Morocco (a tiny crowd, the other one Abubakr Jamai also persecuted) and his magazine Tel-quel one of my favorites too (the second of 2: Le journal hebdomadaire). These two guys and their colleagues have radically transformed the media landscape and one had hoped - indeed expected, although, sadly, not demanded!) that the so-called “opening” of the late 90s would actually mean something in terms of freedom of speech.
Sadly - as long as these guys have been operating - they have been persecuted by the very individuals and government services they cover. They’ve been financially ruined by prosecution after prosecution and now - these bight young energies - are threatened with jail! It’s disgraceful and depressing.
The “clarity” thingie September 18, 2006
Posted by Delilah in : General, US, World, human rights , add a commentVia Salon:
Quote of the Day
National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley on why U.S. interrogation teams need Congress to “clarify” the Geneva Conventions’ prohibition against “outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment”: “I’m saying that nobody knows what humiliating treatment is. What does it mean?”
What an extraordinary statement.
AP details the atrocities September 17, 2006
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Looks like the AP has had enough: one of their photographers has been held for 5 months for no apparent reason. They are very pissed off and taking aim. The language in this report is as accurate as it gets and puts the situation in its proper context. About time.
