Ninteen Q&A on a friendly-printed flyer is available from Torture Abolition and Survivors Suport Coalition (TASSC):
Also, check out their new Blog where survivors can share and communicate safely with each other.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Friday, March 09, 2007
Press Release from SHRO; March 8th
المنظمة السودانية لحقوق الإنسان - القاهرة
8 مارس 2007
في الذكرى الثلاثين لليوم العالمي للمرأة:
المنظمة تطالب بتدابير عاجلة لتمكين نساء دارفور
في الذكرى الثلاثين لليوم العالمي للمرأة:
المنظمة تطالب بتدابير عاجلة لتمكين نساء دارفور
في الذكرى الثلاثين لليوم العالمي للمرأة، تقر المنظمة السودانية لحقوق الإنسان - القاهرة بتقدير كامل بالتضحيات الجسيمة التي ظلت تجود بها المرأة السودانية من أجل الوحدة الإختيارية، السلام العادل، والتقدم الإجتماعي لأمتنا.
نحن، ناشطات المنظمة، نكرّس يوم المرأة لنساء دارفور: كرامتهن، ونضالهن الدؤوب والمستمر للحفاظ على القيم الروحية والثقافية لمجتمعنا.
إننا نكرّس الذكرى الثلاثين لشهداء دارفور: النساء والرجال الذين قّتلوا أو قبروا أحياء، الفتيات اللواتي يُتّمن، والزوجات اللواتي رُمّلن أو أُغتصبن، والضحايا من الأسر والمجتمعات في المنطقة والتي لا حصر لها.
إننا نحث المنظمات الدولية، الإفريقية، العربية، وكافة منظمات المرأة الإقليمية والوطنية، وكذا هيئات الأمم المتحدة، بما فيها صندوق الأمم المتحدة لتنمية المرأة، برنامج الأمم المتحدة للإنماء، برنامج الأمم المتحدة للبيئة، ومجلس حقوق الإنسان، لدعم قضية المرأة في دارفور مادياً ومعنوياً.
إننا ندين بأشد لهجة ممكنة أعمال الإبادة الجماعية والجرائم الأخرى ضد الإنسانية التي ارتكبتها القوات النظامية للدولة أو المجموعات المسلحة.
إننا ندين، بالتضامن مع شقيقاتنا نساء دارفور، العدوان المخزي عن طريق القصف الجوي الحكومي للبلدات المفقرة، مخيمات الرعاة، والقرى المأهولة فقط بالأبرياء من النساء والأطفال والمعوقين والمسنين من الرجال.
إننا ندين المواقف غير المبدئية لحكومة السودان في ما يتعلق باتفاق أبوجا والسياسات المراوغة التي يتبناها الرئيس ومعاونوه لإفشال الجهود الدولية الرامية إلى إنهاء الأزمة عن طريق التراضي السياسي.
كما نقدّر عالياً المواقف المبدئية للأحزاب السياسية الديمقراطية، منظمات المجتمع المدني والقيادات الشريفة في البلاد إلى جانب نساء، أسر وأهل دارفور. إننا نحث الجهات السياسية، التشريعية، والتنفيذية المعنية في حكومة الوحدة الوطنية على الوفاء بالمسئوليات الوطنية الملقاة على عاتقها من قبل الدستور الانتقالي للسودان واتفاق نيفاشا للسلام الشامل:
1- ضمان تنفيذ فوري لالتزامات الدولة تجاه قوات الاتحاد الافريقي-الأمم المتحدة في دارفور،
2- إعادة النازحات والأسر إلى مناطقهم وبيوتهم مع التعويض الكامل عن كل الأرواح التي فقدت أو الممتلكات التي جرى تدميرها أو اغتصابها،
3- تسليم كافة مسئولي الدولة أو المشاركين لهم والمتهمين بارتكاب الجرائم بحق النساء، الفتيات، الأسر والمجتمعات في دارفور، و
4- تمكين الحياة المنتجة التي عُرفت بها المرأة الدارفورية على امتداد تاريخ المنطقة، وذلك عبر توفير الأموال، الرعاية الإجتماعية، وبرامج التنمية الشاملة لذوي الحاجة تحت إشراف النساء.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
STOP OUTSOURCING OF TORTURE Bill
HR 1352 (Markey, D-MA), a bill to prohibit the return or other transfer of persons by the United States, for the purpose of detention, interrogation, trial, or otherwise, to countries where torture or other inhuman treatment of persons occurs; to Foreign Affairs. H2242, CR 3/6/07.
H.R. 1352. A bill to prohibit the return or other transfer of persons by the United States, for the purpose of detention, interrogation, trial, or otherwise, to countries where torture or other inhuman treatment of persons occurs, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Against the indefinite detention
GATS has joined more than 70 orgs in the US and signed the group letter in support of the legislative effort to restore Habeas Corpus that has been repealed in last Congress and made it possible to detain non-citizen indefinitly!
Read more here: http://www.afj.org
We are following the path of the legendary sofi martyr, Mahmous Mohamed taha, who said "Alhoriyah Lanna wa lisewanna" mening Freddom is for us and for them, too.
Read more here: http://www.afj.org
We are following the path of the legendary sofi martyr, Mahmous Mohamed taha, who said "Alhoriyah Lanna wa lisewanna" mening Freddom is for us and for them, too.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
E.U exposes countries involved in the CIA torture program
E.U. Report Faults 16 Nations in Probe Of Secret CIA Flights
By Molly MooreWashington Post Foreign ServiceThursday, February 15, 2007; Page A14
PARIS, Feb. 14 -- The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a report admonishing 15 European countries and Turkey for helping the CIA transport terrorism suspects held in secret or for failing to cooperate in the parliament's investigation of the practice.
The legislative body for the European Union's 27 countries said many member states have been "turning a blind eye" to the CIA-operated flights carrying prisoners who were subjected to "incommunicado detention and torture" during interrogations, violating E.U. human rights standards.
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The report, which repeated basic findings made in a draft released last year, admonished 11 countries for having a role in CIA flights: Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, Greece, Cyprus, Denmark, Turkey, Macedonia, Bosnia and Romania. The report also cited Britain, Austria, Italy, Poland and Portugal as uncooperative in the probe.
read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021401654.html
By Molly MooreWashington Post Foreign ServiceThursday, February 15, 2007; Page A14
PARIS, Feb. 14 -- The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a report admonishing 15 European countries and Turkey for helping the CIA transport terrorism suspects held in secret or for failing to cooperate in the parliament's investigation of the practice.
The legislative body for the European Union's 27 countries said many member states have been "turning a blind eye" to the CIA-operated flights carrying prisoners who were subjected to "incommunicado detention and torture" during interrogations, violating E.U. human rights standards.
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The report, which repeated basic findings made in a draft released last year, admonished 11 countries for having a role in CIA flights: Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, Greece, Cyprus, Denmark, Turkey, Macedonia, Bosnia and Romania. The report also cited Britain, Austria, Italy, Poland and Portugal as uncooperative in the probe.
read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021401654.html
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Ghost Houses vs. Black Sites
•‘Black site is a military term that has been used by United States intelligence agencies to refer to any classified facility whose existence or true purpose is officially denied by the US government’
•Because it is illegal for the government to hold prisoners in secret prisons in the United States, the CIA placed them in overseas in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan.
•Germany and Italy are mad at US because of using their countries by CIA in this program. They already indicted 13 CIA Operatives (see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2007/01/31/
AR2007013100356.html3100356.html
What is going on in these palces is no difference from the Ghost Houses of Sudan. This is why Sudanese human rights groups should join in hand with other groups in the US against the Torture Program run by CIA in Guntanamo and other Black Sites.
•Because it is illegal for the government to hold prisoners in secret prisons in the United States, the CIA placed them in overseas in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan.
•Germany and Italy are mad at US because of using their countries by CIA in this program. They already indicted 13 CIA Operatives (see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2007/01/31/
AR2007013100356.html3100356.html
What is going on in these palces is no difference from the Ghost Houses of Sudan. This is why Sudanese human rights groups should join in hand with other groups in the US against the Torture Program run by CIA in Guntanamo and other Black Sites.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
CIA and Black Sites
more on this provocative issueOn the Boeing 737 Business Jet, Khaled el-Masri said, "all the people were in black clothes and black masks. They put earplugs in my ears and a sack over my head." After putting chains on his legs, they led him onto the plane. "They threw me on the floor and injected me with something. I blacked out."—From Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program, Stephen Grey (St. Martin's Press)
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0706,hentoff,75712,2.html
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2835/
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/27516res20061127.html
read more: CIA agents on trial over torture flights
posted Sat Feb 17 2007 http://www.itv.com/news/world_78f5c24acc9baa2d599158ff32429945.html
posted Sat Feb 17 2007 http://www.itv.com/news/world_78f5c24acc9baa2d599158ff32429945.html
In addition, a very strong response from the community is in this powerful questioning from a retired law professor to one of the lawyers who are involved in this cover business, which was published here: http://www.wweek.com/wwire/?p=7178:
"Michael Munk, a former political science professor from Portland, asked the Oregon State Bar to continue its investigation of Scott Caplan.
Caplan has refused to tell the Bar how he met the mysterious Leonard T. Bayard, head of a Portland company that owned a plane the CIA used to fly terror suspects to countries that practice torture.
Caplan filed the articles of incorporation for that company, Bayard Foreign Marketing LLC, with the state in 2003. Reporters and human-rights advocates contend it was a CIA shell company and that Bayard does not exist.
Munk asked the Bar last year to investigate whether Caplan violated ethics rules by filing false paperwork. Munk told WW he’s pushing the case to draw attention to the use of torture in the war on terror.
In a Jan. 31 letter to the Bar, Caplan refused to say how he met Bayard or why he was convinced at the time that Bayard was a real person. Caplan says he did nothing wrong but that attorney-client privilege prevents him from discussing the case.
In a letter to the Bar today, Munk fired back, saying Caplan should have publicly cut off representing the company by the end of 2004, when media reports made it clear Bayard was a ghost. Munk asked the Bar to refer the case against Caplan to a professional responsibility board for further review. "
Caplan has refused to tell the Bar how he met the mysterious Leonard T. Bayard, head of a Portland company that owned a plane the CIA used to fly terror suspects to countries that practice torture.
Caplan filed the articles of incorporation for that company, Bayard Foreign Marketing LLC, with the state in 2003. Reporters and human-rights advocates contend it was a CIA shell company and that Bayard does not exist.
Munk asked the Bar last year to investigate whether Caplan violated ethics rules by filing false paperwork. Munk told WW he’s pushing the case to draw attention to the use of torture in the war on terror.
In a Jan. 31 letter to the Bar, Caplan refused to say how he met Bayard or why he was convinced at the time that Bayard was a real person. Caplan says he did nothing wrong but that attorney-client privilege prevents him from discussing the case.
In a letter to the Bar today, Munk fired back, saying Caplan should have publicly cut off representing the company by the end of 2004, when media reports made it clear Bayard was a ghost. Munk asked the Bar to refer the case against Caplan to a professional responsibility board for further review. "
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