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The perils of blogging in Egypt

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The perils of blogging in Egypt

Rannie Amiri

Philip Rizk wasn’t "unlucky" or at "the wrong place at the wrong time." Instead, he found himself quite the deliberate target of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s regime.

On 6 February, the 26-year-old German-Egyptian blogger and filmmaker took part in a march with fellow activists belonging to the group "To Gaza," an organization under the umbrella of the Gaza Popular Committee in Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

 

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Obamas policy on civil liberties bush lite?

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Obama’s Policy on Civil Liberties: Bush Lite?

by Ivan Eland

"Politicians love symbolic acts and Obama’s rapid pledge to shutter the high profile prison at Guantanamo and secret CIA prisons was widely praised. But if civil liberties continue to be violated elsewhere, have we made much progress?"

Barack Obama entered the presidency as one of the most rhetorically pro-civil liberties politicians in recent memory. And shortly after taking office, he drew applause from friends of liberty for promulgating executive orders closing Guantanamo and CIA secret prisons, ending CIA torture, suspending kangaroo proceedings at military tribunals, and pledging more openness than the secretive Bush administration. Unfortunately, instead of prosecuting Bush administration officials, including George W. Bush, for violating criminal statutes against torture, illegal wiretapping of Americans, and other misdeeds–thus avoiding the bad precedent of giving a president a free pass on illegal acts–Obama appears ready to vindicate the prior administration’s anti-terrorism program by adopting Bush Lite.

 

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Gaddafi Isarael not sudan to blame for crisis in darfur

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Gaddafi: Israel, not Sudan, to blame for crisis in Darfur 
 
By Reuters 
 
Tags: israel news, gaddafi, Darfur 

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the current African Union president, on Tuesday accused "foreign forces" including Israel of being behind the Darfur conflict.

Judges from the International Criminal Court are due to announce on March 4 whether they will issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over allegations that he masterminded genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region. UN diplomats have told Reuters the warrant will be issued.

 

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