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  • Mugabe: People aren't starving.

    09/18/2005 6:59:23 AM PDT · by Triggerhippie · 13 replies · 475+ views
    AP ^ | Sat Sep 17, 7:21 PM ET | By MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press Writer
    UNITED NATIONS - The African leader some call a hero and others a destructive despot suggests people in his country aren't hungry, they just can't eat their favorite food. President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, said in an interview with The Associated Press that his people are "very, very happy" though aid agencies report 4 million of 11.6 million face famine. "You describe it as if we have a whole cemetery," Mugabe said of a reporter's description of the southern African nation's dire straits, blaming "continuous years of drought." The problem is reliance on corn, he said during Friday's interview, "but...
  • SPECIAL UN ENVOY ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION CONCERNED OVER SITUATION OF IRANIAN JOURNALIST (Ganji)

    09/18/2005 6:39:57 AM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 4 replies · 225+ views
    UNITED NATIONS ^ | 16 September 2005
    The following statement was issued today by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Ambeyi Ligabo: "I wish to express again my deepest concern regarding the situation of journalist and writer Akbar Ganji whom I met on 8 November 2003 at the Evin prison, while visiting the Islamic Republic of Iran in my official capacity as Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. On that occasion, relevant Iranian authorities...
  • 200 go on hunger strike in Guantanamo

    09/18/2005 3:21:49 AM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 40 replies · 944+ views
    Washington, Sept 18 - A hunger strike at the US military's prison camp at Guantanamo bay, Cuba, has unsettled senior commanders and produced the most serious challenge yet to the military's effort to manage hundreds of terrorism suspects, the New York Times reported Sunday. Quoting unnamed lawyers and officials, the newspaper said as many as 200 prisoners -- more than a third of the camp's population -- have refused food in recent weeks to protest conditions and prolonged confinement without trial. While military officials put the number of those participating at 105, they acknowledge that 20 of them, whose health...
  • Hunger strikers pledge to die in Guantánamo

    09/09/2005 1:23:55 AM PDT · by LibWhacker · 28 replies · 460+ views
    Guardian ^ | 9/9/05 | Audrey Gillan
    More than 200 detainees in Guantánamo Bay are in their fifth week of a hunger strike, the Guardian has been told. Statements from prisoners in the camp which were declassified by the US government on Wednesday reveal that the men are starving themselves in protest at the conditions in the camp and at their alleged maltreatment - including desecration of the Qur'an - by American guards. The statements, written on August 11, have just been given to the British human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith. They show that prisoners are determined to starve them selves to death. In one, Binyam...
  • Guantanamo inmates on new hunger strike

    08/31/2005 7:15:49 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 50 replies · 503+ views
    ap on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 8/31/05 | Michelle Faul - ap
    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Scores of detainees have started a new hunger strike at the U.S. prison for terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, demanding to be put on trial or released, human rights lawyers said Wednesday. Many have been held more than 3 1/2 years without charge or access to lawyers. Most were captured in the Afghanistan war, suspected of ties to al-Qaida or the ousted Taliban regime that sheltered the terrorist network. The hunger-striking detainees allege the Pentagon reneged on promises to bring the detention camp into compliance with Geneva Conventions if they ended a hunger...
  • Americans getting fatter: report

    08/23/2005 5:38:17 PM PDT · by Aussie Dasher · 61 replies · 1,107+ views
    Herald Sun ^ | 24 August 2005
    AMERICANS are getting fatter in every state, with the exception of Oregon, and those living in the southeast are the most likely to be obese, according to a report issued today. Mississippi had the highest rate of obesity, with 29.5 per cent of adults classified as obese in 2004. In Colorado, the slimmest state, just 16 per cent of adults are obese, the Trust for America's Health found. Oregon's rate of 21 per cent was unchanged. "We have a crisis of poor nutrition and physical inactivity in the US and it's time we dealt with it," said Shelley Hearne, executive...
  • Cuba's Ganji

    08/22/2005 8:01:03 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 6 replies · 262+ views
    NYSun ^ | August 22, 2005
    Cuba's Ganji New York Sun Staff Editorial August 22, 2005 Freedom is on the march in Cuba, and Fidel Castro seems nervous. Over the past month, he has intensified his crackdown on political dissenters, making arrests at a pace unseen since the last wave of repression in 2003. Now Rene Gomez Manzano, a dissident leader arrested in his bed on July 22, is starting a hunger strike to protest his unjust imprisonment, as The New York Sun's Meghan Clyne reported Friday. Mr. Gomez Manzano will join Akbar Ganji, the jailed Iranian journalist who also has gone on a hunger strike,...
  • MTV to Air Trip by Jolie to Africa

    08/17/2005 7:09:35 AM PDT · by libertarianPA · 45 replies · 1,020+ views
    AP Movie News ^ | 8/16/05 | AP
    A journey to Kenya by "Tomb Raider" star Angelina Jolie and noted economist Jeffrey Sachs will air Sept. 14 on MTV. "The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa" will follow their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in western Kenya, where Sachs' U.N. Millennium Project team is working to end poverty, hunger and disease, the music cable network said in a statement Monday. "We are at a unique threshold in human history, where the crisis we face in Africa is matched only by our degree of hope that we can and will be a...
  • A dying man's cry for freedom in Iran (must read)

    08/10/2005 5:59:15 PM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 27 replies · 654+ views
    Iranian.com ^ | August 10, 2005 | Max Boot of LA Times
    THE HEADLINES out of Tehran concern the predictable failure of yet another round of farcical negotiations designed to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program. Meanwhile, a much more dramatic story is unfolding with much less attention. Investigative journalist Akbar Ganji has been on a hunger strike since June 11 to protest his unwarranted imprisonment over the last five years for the crime of criticizing the theocratic thugs who have hijacked his country. Recently, he has been moved from prison to a hospital, where he is said to be at death's door. His condition is so perilous that even his advocate —...
  • Iranian dissident's home raided

    08/08/2005 11:42:03 AM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 14 replies · 470+ views
    BBC News ^ | Monday, 8 August 2005
    Iranian authorities have raided the house of the country's best-known dissident, Akbar Ganji, supporters and relatives of the jailed writer say. His daughter telephoned a family friend during the raid who described her as being "very terrified". Mr Ganji has been on a hunger strike for 59 days and both his lawyer and his wife have urged him to end the protest. He was jailed in 2001 over articles linking Iranian leaders with a series of political killings in the 1990s. The BBC's Frances Harrison in Tehran says it is not clear why the authorities raided the house when Mr...
  • Dying For Democracy (Ganji and the movement for freedom and ending religious rule in Iran)

    08/07/2005 12:29:10 AM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 216+ views
    iranian.com ^ | August 6, 2005 | Jahanshah Javid
    Akbar Ganji is dying in a hospital in Tehran. He is not a prophet. He is not calling for a revolution. He is not doing George Bush a favor. He is a man who speaks his mind and is willing to die for it. But he must not die. We must do everything we can to force the authorities to let him go home. Ganji is not everyone's favorite dissident. He quotes Khomeini, he looks up to Ayatollah Montazeri, and his circle of friends and allies includes leading religious reformists such as Saeed Hajjarian and Abdolkarim Soroush. Because of his...
  • Iran: Harassment of Rights Defenders Escalates

    08/02/2005 9:05:35 PM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 175+ views
    Reuters ^ | 02 Aug 2005 | HRW
    New York, August 3, 2005) - The Iranian government intensified its attacks on independent human rights defenders by arresting prominent lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani and threatening Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, Human Rights Watch said today. On Saturday evening, July 30, agents of the Judiciary, operating under the authority of Tehran chief prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi, arrested Soltani inside the offices of the Lawyers Association in Tehran. The next day, a Judiciary spokesman announced that Soltani was arrested for "revealing secrets relating to the case of nuclear spies." Soltani is currently being held in Evin prison in Tehran but has yet to be...
  • Motorcycle gunman kills Iran judge

    08/02/2005 12:40:33 PM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 32 replies · 683+ views
    Guardian, UK ^ | Tuesday, August 2, 2005 | AP
    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A gunman on a motorcycle shot and killed a judge Tuesday in central Tehran and then sped off, a judiciary spokesman said. Judge Masoud Moqadasi handled a case against an investigative reporter jailed in 2000 for reporting that intelligence officials murdered five Iranian dissidents in 1998, judiciary spokesman Jamal Karimirad said. The journalist Akbar Ganji remains in jail. Iran's Intelligence Ministry later blamed the murders of the dissidents on ``rogue agents'' in the secret service. As the judge drove away from his office, the gunman sped up to Moqadasi's car on a motorcycle and sprayed it...
  • Ledeen: Time to take down the terror masters in Tehran (Iranian Fission)

    08/01/2005 2:31:42 PM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 32 replies · 1,030+ views
    National Review Online ^ | August 01, | M Ledeen
    One of my favorite reporters called late last week, saying he had learned that Coalition forces in Iraq had captured an Iranian vehicle entering Iraq with large quantities of shaped explosives, obviously headed for the terrorists. "So what?" was my reply. It happens most every day. But he was baffled. Why would the Iranians be supporting terrorist actions against Shiites? After all, didn't they want the Shiites to prevail in Iraq, so that there could be an Islamic republic there? His question — and he's a good reporter — shows once again how totally false stereotypes distort our ability to...
  • France says world was late to help starving Niger

    07/30/2005 9:12:44 PM PDT · by Panerai · 39 replies · 703+ views
    boston.com ^ | July 30, 2005 | Matthew Green
    France blamed a food crisis gripping its former colony Niger on a late response by the entire international community on Saturday, saying it was not the only country responsible for aiding the world's poor. It said it would triple food aid to 4.6 million euros ($5.6 million) this year for Niger, where starvation threatens the lives of tens of thousands of children and has left millions of adults hungry after drought and locusts destroyed crops. Aid workers have blamed donor nations -- including France -- for failing to heed appeals from U.N. agencies and the government for food aid since...
  • Economist Blames Aid for Africa Famine

    07/30/2005 1:34:58 PM PDT · by bill1952 · 28 replies · 685+ views
    AP ^ | 07/30/05 | Todd Pitman
    DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - In Niger, a desert country twice the size of Texas, most of the 11 million people live on a dollar a day. Forty percent of children are underfed, and one out of four dies before turning 5. And that's when things are normal. Throw in a plague of locusts, and a familiar spectacle emerges: skeletal babies, distended bellies, people too famished to brush the flies from their faces. To the aid workers charged with saving the dying, the immediate challenge is to raise relief money and get supplies to the stricken areas. They leave it to...
  • Corsi: Horrifying evidence of mullahs' rule of terror

    07/29/2005 11:40:31 AM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 21 replies · 1,193+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Jerome Corsi
    Kurds in Iran's western city of Mahabad are rioting against the Iranian government after the torture and brutal death of activist, Shovaneh Ghaderi, at the hands of the police. Shovaneh was a member of the Revolutionary Union of Kurdistan. His crime evidently was to call for autonomy in Kurdistan. Reports are that Shovaneh was shot by police and tied to a car. He was dragged by the car to the police station, suffering severe lacerations. At the police station, he was allegedly tortured until he died. Shovaneh was 25-years old at the time of his murder. The police brutality came...
  • Iranian Journalist 'Ganji' may die after 50-day hunger-strike in prison

    07/29/2005 10:21:23 AM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 28 replies · 407+ views
    Reporters Without Borders today condemned what it called "the criminal attitude" of Iran's top leaders in refusing to release journalist Akbar Ganji, who has now been on hunger-strike for nearly 50 days. "They must release him for humanitarian reasons. He has been unjustly detained for more than five years but he is a determined man," the worldwide press freedom organisation said, calling on the international community and journalists everywhere to join in exerting pressure on the Iranian government. Ganji will begin his 50th day without food on 31 July. He now weighs only 52 kg and is unconscious much of...
  • KHAMENEI MUST STEP DOWN, SAYS IRANIAN DISSIDENT AKBAR GANI

    07/24/2005 5:03:20 PM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 44 replies · 616+ views
    Iran Press Service ^ | Sunday, July 24, 2005
    “Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is no more the leader, having overstepped his legitimacy by not responding to his Islamic duties. He must step down”, says Iran’s most prominent political dissident Akbar Ganji. In a pathetic letter to the nation’s most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hoseynali Montazeri, Mr. Ganji cites a statement by the fonder of the Islamic Republic Grand Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini saying “every member of the population has the right to impeach publicly the ruling officials and if the impeached one has no satisfactory answer, otherwise and if having acted against his Islamic obligations, he must step down and...
  • Guantanamo: '52 won't eat' (Hooray!!...Send the food to Niger)

    07/21/2005 3:26:07 PM PDT · by Cornpone · 58 replies · 948+ views
    News24.com ^ | 21 July 2005 | News24.com
    Washington - Fifty-two prisoners at the US Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects' camp in Cuba have launched a hunger strike, apparently in protest at their detention, military authorities said on Thursday. Joint Task Force Guantanamo, which is in charge of the camp, said the 52 prisoners had so far refused at least nine consecutive meals. "Indications are that this is a temporary effort by some detainees to protest their continued detention," said a Joint Task Force statement. Prisoners who refused food were being treated with intravenous drips, and oral rehydration solutions including energy drinks, water and oral nutritional supplements, the statement...