بلعين الجمعة 5/3/2010
أصيب العشرات بحالات الاختناق عندما قمعت قوات من جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي المسيرة التي نظمتها اللجنة الشعبية لمقاومة الجدار والاستيطان في بلعين ضد جدار الضم والتوسع العنصري, حيث قامت قوات الاحتلال بإطلاق قنابل الغاز باتجاه المواطنين والمتضامنين الاجانب ومحبي السلام الاسرائيلين (more…)
On Friday 5th March in Bil’in dozens suffered from gas inhalation when troops suppressed a march against the Israeli occupation organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall and settlements.
The demonstration was a manifestation against the wall being built on Bil’in’s land and the annexation and expansion of Israeli apartheid.
The occupation forces fired tear gas towards the citizens of Bil’in, foreign peace activists and peace-loving Israelis.
This week’s demonstration marked the Global Week against racism in the world and coincided with many popular events against racism and oppression against the peoples and territories - in particular the Palestinian people. (more…)
By Frances Webber
Frances Webber, human rights lawyer, examines Lord Carlile’s Report on five years operation of the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Next month sees the fifth anniversary of the control order regime, introduced in haste in March 2005 after the strategy of internment, which applied only to foreign terror suspects, was declared unlawful and discriminatory. Now, control orders too are discredited for their reliance on secret evidence and their devastating impact on those subjected to them.
The fact that there have been so few control orders in the five years of their operation - forty-four in total - gives the misleading impression that those controlled must be truly dangerous. But the small number of orders doesn’t necessarily mean that the intelligence behind them is accurate. After all, not many people were hanged for murder when the UK had capital punishment - but a significant proportion of those who were judicially murdered turn out to have been innocent. In the words of human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce, ‘This may affect only a small group of people but in terms of its contribution to what one might call the folklore of injustice it is colossal.’ (more…)