Wretched Ally in Lebanon for Justice and Dignity

April 14, 2012

Not surprising perhaps, but nevertheless refreshing, were the students strongly expressed convictions, regardless of particular sect, that those most victimized by Lebanon’s government and current laws are the roughly 200,000 migrant domestic workers, women, who make up half of Lebanon’s population, and the estimated 250,000 Palestinian refugees waiting to return to their country, Palestine.

The LWOT: Britain authorised to extradite 5 purported extremists

April 14, 2012

Britain authorised to extradite 5 supposed extremists

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France ruled on Apr 10 that a United Kingdom might extradite radical Muslim minister Abu Hamza al-Masri and 4 other suspected terrorists to a United States to face a terrorism conference that might outcome in prolonged jail sentences in a supposed “supermax” jail (AP, Reuters, AJE, Tel, BBC, NYT,CNN, WSJ). The 5 organisation had argued that a intensity sentences carried by a charges and a conditions in maximum-security jails in a United States volume to a defilement of tellurian rights, with that a justice disagreed. The family of one suspect, Babar Ahmad, has affianced to interest a ruling, and a European judges pronounced in their statute that no one will be extradited until a preference is “final,” definition that all appeals will be listened initial (AFP).