World Repression Newswire Archive

JOSEF MENGELE a/k/a JOHN S. EDMONDSON

09-01-2006 05:26 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

Fresh medical atrocities have been perpetrated by hospital commandant John Edmondson against POWs tortured in the US concentration camp at Guantanamo. The criminal assaults mentioned in the articles are only those known to have been publicly admitted by commandant Edmonson himself. What other horrors remain to be revealed will only be learned in the course of time, if ever.

excellent news from the Genoa G8 Diaz Trial

In a surprise move, the christian democrats in december passed a modification to the "save previti law" which stated that all trials in progress are exempt.

Wrong Doers Versus Whistleblowers: How Patriots Act

06-01-2006 05:49 | Analysis | Repression | World

Remorse and religion is the standard of those representatives pleading guilty to government bribes and lies. Courage and conviction is the standard of American whistleblowers, Sibel Edmonds and Bunnatine Greenhouse. Is there a Patriot Act that can protect whistleblowers and reflect the standards of how patriots are free to act?

Judgement transcript of Peace Activists Deportation Appeal

06-01-2006 00:08 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Read a translation from Hebrew of the transcript of the appeal proceedings brought by the Peace Activists denied entry to the non Violence Conference in Bethlehem Dec 2005.

No room in Bethlehem for Peace campaigners.

05-01-2006 23:15 | Anti-militarism | Repression | London | World

Listen to interviews with the peace activists prevented from attending the Non Violence Conference in Bethlehem Decmeber 2005. These interviews were recorded prior to their travelling to Israel.

Iranian refugee on hungerstrike reaches critical stage

05-01-2006 21:44 | Migration | Repression | World

Mehdi Hooshyar sought refuge in the Netherlands in 1999. He was a student activist in Iran and has converted to chirsitianity after leaving Iran. Dutch government wants to send him back. He has been on hungerstrike since November 27th.

Attempted Murder of a Defender of Human Rights in Chiapas, Mexico

05-01-2006 18:01 | Repression | Zapatista | World

The Fray Bartholomew de Las Casas Centre for Human Rights in San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico, reports a serious attack on a human rights activist in the city. The man who was attacked is, among other activities, involved in “The Other Campaign”, initiated by the Zapatistas. The Fray Bartholomew Centre write:

protest to free iranian union leader, london, saturday 7 january

Activists will protest outside the BBC's Persian Section from 12-2pm this Saturday, 7 January, to press for the release of Tehran bus drivers' union leader Mansoor Ossanlou, who is being held without charge by the Iranian regime.

Stop Institutional Violence

05-01-2006 08:58 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Institutional Violence In Review

small WORLD interview with Richard M. Smith, Digital Privacy

04-01-2006 21:32 | Culture | Repression | Technology | World

Interview with Richard M. Smith about digital privacy.

Black Box Voting: Voting Fraud Coming to an Election Near You

03-01-2006 19:02 | Repression | Social Struggles | Technology | World

BlackBoxVoting.org has proven optical scanners used to read paper ballots can be programmed.

Global War and Cia

02-01-2006 19:12 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

the Doc speach to Global War and Cia in Toscany. We have two version in this page . 1° in original leanguage, it's italian version, other in eglish version but the transleate no perfect. sorry.

It' s Important good translation be causes we make diffussion in the World.

Live party by the Dead Sea on New Year's Eve.

02-01-2006 10:09 | Free Spaces | Repression | World

This is a short, humorous account of the lively party by the Dead Sea on New Year's Eve. 13 photos attached.

Family Law + secrecy of draconian acts

29-12-2005 18:15 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Further to our protests and conferences recently;

Belarus Indymedia

29-12-2005 15:56 | Repression | World

Belarus is called "Europe's last dictatorship", and things are certainly grim there, but Belarus Indymedia is alive and well, and here is a snapshot of what you can find on it...

Catholics breach the exclusion zone to read out more names of Iraq victims

Members of Pax Christi today today risked arrest by assembling outside Downing Street and reading out the names of Iraqi children and British servicemen killed in Iraq

Unpleasant pictures from Palestine

27-12-2005 20:20 | Repression | World

Pictures of a killing in Palestine

MUHAMMAD HAQUE POLITICAL POETRY on the abuses of faith and belief

27-12-2005 03:54 | Analysis | Culture | Repression | World

Those who held the most power and used it in like measure in the world during the past twelve months also invoked a strongly displayed and powerfully communicated allegiance to religious faith and even belief in God. They used peoples’ ordinary faith in God and religion to incite fear and alarm as tactic in the overall strategy to make people accept rules that they would otherwise reject. The power-holders’ behaviour was most contrary to anything that religion allowed them to do :-
Violate the innocent and deprive the weak and do so with no show of shame of remorse let alone faith.

CHILEAN POLICE USES GUNS AGAINST PROTESTING MAPUCHE COMMUNITY JUAN PAILLALEF

26-12-2005 18:00 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

In the last three days the Mapuche Community ‘Juan Paillalef’ was confronted with harsh police violence. The confrontations started during a peaceful act of protest by the Mapuche Community against illegal road constructions through several Mapuche lands. The police chased away the protesting group and entered the community using guns, teargas and clubs. The following day Juana Calfunao and her sister were arrested without a warrant. When released yesterday, both women showed bad injuries from being beaten by the police.