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How Amnesty has let down Bradley Manning

Submitted by david on Tue, 05/28/2013 - 21:09
There is nothing complex about Bradley Manning’s case, so why is the world’s best known human rights group not demanding his release?

Zionist group tries to blackmail DC's Newseum over memorial for Palestinian journalists killed by Israel

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 17:58

The two journalists, Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama, were targeted and killed last November by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip, during Israel’s November assault.

A former insider explains how Human Rights Watch panders to the Israel lobby

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 18:57

Human Rights Watch deals with Israel by a different, much softer standard than it applies to any other country.

Risking their lives to save lives: Gaza's first responders

Joe Catron
Gaza City
16 April 2013

Promises of aid to civil defense services have not been kept.

UK supermarket sells fruit from illegal settlement as "made in Israel"

Submitted by Michael Deas on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 13:05
Israeli companies lie so routinely about the origin of their produce that EU plans to introduce new labeling guidance will probably prove unworkable.

Human Rights Watch: Israel’s justifications for killing journalists are “evidence of war crimes”

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon, 12/24/2012 - 17:19
Official statements showing Israel’s intent to target journalist are evidence of war crimes, says rights group.

Israeli prisons equipped by notorious security firm G4S hold Palestinian teens in solitary confinement

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Tue, 12/11/2012 - 15:29
Since July 2012, Israel has held six Palestinian boys in solitary confinement in G4S equipped Al Jalame prison, reports Defence for Children-Palestine.

Palestinian forces increasingly join Israel in repression of journalists

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Ramallah
28 November 2012

Palestinian journalists routinely self-censor following increased violations of media freedoms in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Freedom Theatre’s Zakaria Zubeidi on “death fast” in PA detention

Jen Marlowe
19 September 2012
Freedom Theatre co-founder Zakaria Zubeidi refuses to consume food and water or speak after a Palestinian Authority judge approved the extension of his detention without trial or charge.

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