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"If we are building a police state — what are we actually doing here?" So asked a European diplomat responding to allegations of torture by the Palestinian security forces. The diplomat might well ask. A police state is not a state. It is a form of larceny: of people’s rights, aspirations and sacrifices, for the personal benefit of an élite. This is not what the world meant when it called for stat
Only last week, the dissident blogger Slim Amamou was handcuffed to a chair in the notorious interrogation rooms of Tunisia's interior ministry being psychologically tormented by the dictator's henchmen and led to believe that the screams he could hear from neighbouring rooms was his family members being tortured. It's a sign of the dizzying speed of change in Tunisia that today he was being sworn
The attack in Baquba is the second targeting Iraq's security forces in two days A suicide bomber used an ambulance to attack a police compound in central Iraq, killing up to 14 people, officials said. Scores more were wounded in the attack in Baquba - the second targeting Iraq's security forces in two days. On Tuesday, a suicide bomber killed about 60 people at a police recruitment centre in Tikri
By Robert Mackey January 18, 2011 11:09 am January 18, 2011 11:09 am Images of Slim Amamou, a Tunisian blogger, before and after his recent arrest. Updated | 3:26 p.m. Less than two weeks ago, Slim Amamou, a Tunisian blogger and activist, was using his @slim404 Twitter feed to let friends know that the police had been to his house. Later the same day, after he was arrested, the 33-year-old compute
Romina Ruiz-Goiriena writes for The Huffington Post: When thousands took to the World Wide Web from Tehran to protest the result of the presidential elections the summer of 2009, traditional western media's first instinct was to turn a blind eye. It wasn't until days later when massive networks of activists and students were operating strictly through Twitter that outlets like CNN finally figured
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