World Repression Newswire Archive

Burundian journalists are mobilising to secure the release of Etienne Ndikuyiro, who has been detained without charge after writing an article claiming that Burundi's President Ndayizeye was depressed after losing last week's communal elections.

Too right he's been there too long and now he has a mental problem. I guess that's one way to get to the truth aye laurie?

BRITISH soldiers helped to train the army of Uzbekistan, which last month slaughtered hundreds of pro-democracy protesters.

Should anyone be in shock or awe over the fact that Bush, Blair and Howard still lead their respective governments? What are the results of international exposure regarding the lies they promulgated in relation to the Iraq invasion? It is highly unlikely that any of these leaders would have survived the public outrage generated by these exposures in a historical setting a few decades earlier. But today leaders are comfortable in the knowledge that the public is not as it was and times are not conducive to integrity or public outrage.

The media continues to conduct ‘debates’ relating to the lies surrounding the invasion of Iraq when firm evidence (which could support a trial) has already become a matter of public record. The now very partisan mass media entertains its audience with the appearance that justice is a possibility and that righteous indignation may be appeased. However, it has become a saga or serialised for its own sake, a distraction feigning effectiveness. Meanwhile, the powers behind the puppet leaders continue their agenda of action while the ‘debate’ deals with the semantics of previous events.

"The first criminal attack was committed in one church at Muhuta district where a group of FNL fighters fired in the church and killed six people including a pastor. They also injured seven others," [army spokesman] Manirakiza said.

"The government of Burundi has endorsed a UN plan to set up a truth and reconciliation commission as part of the country’s peace process...

21 JUNE
There will ne a demo, candlit-vigil and mass attendance
at the adjourned council committee meeting taking place
at 7.30 (Tuesday) 21 June at Basildon Centre, Basildon.

26 JUNE
Hovefield Ave, Wickford in Basildon threatened with eviction order by Basildon Council. Judicial Review underway.

29 JUNE
Human Rights Monitoring Teams meeting with Dale Farm Housing Association, at Dale Farm, Crays Hill in Basildon, Essex.

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On saturday the 12th June, a 3,000 strong demonstration in Warsaw, Poland, for equality for gay people and culture in Poland was marred by threats and aggression from right wing opponants.

Ahalf British and half Iraqi family in Swansea are faced with the treat of imminent deportation after the Home Office turned down a bid for asylum.

The Platform for Rights and Freedoms in Turkey has issued a statement describing how an academic conference on Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire was cancelled owing to state pressure, with the justice minister calling the organisers "traitors". The statement examines the current state of freedoms in the country, seeing them as more apparent than real.

They were afraid Lodhi may get more than his weekly ration, the one roll of toilet paper normally handed out to prisoners per week by jail authorities, in his box within a box with no fresh air or sunlight.

Austrian journalist arrested in Turkey on February 10, 2005 on a charge of belonging to an illegal organisation has been acquitted at proceedings in Ankara, Turkey which took place on June 1.

Palistinian Protest Against work of the wall in Ramadeen in Hebron

"This is how we find the dead. We enter any mahallja and ask, "Where are your dead?" "Right here, round the corner," the locals say. Or "Next street", or "Over there."

“In the name of the values of democratic Europe, we make an urgent appeal to you: See to it that the “Warszawa Parade for Equal Rights” can take place and that the basic rights of free opinion, speech and assembly won't be violated.”

I stand alone in my opinion, among those who hold a S.B. Sheriffs Press credential. But heck so did Jesus. I am not saying MJJ is as good as Jesus, but Jesus said, HIS followers would be persecuted. I have seen that MJJ does much good for inner city kids of all races. He has been persecuted.

Jackson's spokeswoman Raymone Bain said on Friday the back complaint had been exacerbated by the air conditioning system in the courtroom, where the pop star has been sitting through six hours a day of testimony, five days a week.

This is a 1,400 word report with 6 photos of the 4th anniversary of Brian Haw's vigil for Iraq in London's Parliament Square.

fight poverty not wars...meeting in Swansea