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Landless Cambodian farmers look to International Criminal Court for justice | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-icc-cambodia-landrights-idUSKBN13H1J9

SRE AMBEL DISTRICT, Cambodia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of farmers who survived the Khmer Rouge’s notorious “Killing Fields” genocide in Cambodia are at the center of a landmark legal case that could change the way global corporations manage large-scale land acquisitions, experts say.

More than 400 families from a sleepy rural hamlet in Sre Ambel district in south-western Cambodia say they were pushed off their farms to make way for sugar plantations.

The villagers are part of a larger group of about 770,000 Cambodians – or five percent of the nation’s population – taking action for being forced off at least four million hectares of land, according to a lawyer presenting their case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague.

#Cambodge #terres #CPI

Gazan boy paralyzed by Israeli army fire fights for compensation
Atiya Nabahin was shot in the neck by soldiers as he returned home from school. Now he awaits a ruling for compensation.
By Amira Hass | Nov. 26, 2016 | 11:58 AM
▻http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.755216

A 17-year-old Palestinian who became a quadriplegic after being wounded by IDF fire is posing the first challenge to the Law to Bypass the High Court that was passed by the Knesset four years ago. If the Be’er Sheva District Court accepts the state’s position that his suit for damages should be rejected, his lawyer will appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court. Then the justices will have to address for the first time the legality of the amendment to the Civil Damages Law that the Knesset passed in 2012, seven years after they nullified a similar amendment to the same law.

Atiya Nabahin’s family lived east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp on farmland it has owned and worked for decades, close to the Green Line. On November 16, 2014, his birthday, Nabahin was shot in the neck by soldiers as he returned home from school. No armed clash was occurring at that time and place between Palestinians and the IDF.

For six months, Nabahin received medical treatment in Israel (paid for by the Palestinian Authority), after it was determined that he had been permanently paralyzed from the neck down. His father Fathi, 59, stayed with him throughout that time, and was taught at ALYN Hospital about how to care for his son, who is now completely dependent on his family members. The family cannot afford to hire outside help. It must shoulder the emotional, physical and financial burden of Atiya’s care alone.

When Atiya Nabahin and his father were in Soroka Hospital in early 2015, the Gazan human rights organization Mizan put them in touch with lawyer Mohammed Jabarin, who later filed the civil suit against the state. Ofer Shoval, deputy Tel Aviv district attorney, sought to have the claim rejected because Nabahin “is a resident of an area outside of Israel that the government has officially declared to be enemy territory,” and because “the law explicitly states that the state is not responsible for damages in these circumstances.”

A month ago, Jabarin and attorney Nadeem Shehadeh from Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel co-wrote a response to Shoval, saying that the law upon which the state is seeking to have the suit dismissed amounts to a direct challenge to the Supreme Court’s authority.

Since the late 1990s, and more so after the outbreak of the second intifada, successive Israeli governments have tried to limit Palestinians’ ability to sue the state when they are hurt by IDF actions. In 2002, an amendment to the Civil Damages Law was enacted, which introduced many hurdles in the process for Palestinians wishing to sue for damages. In 2005, another amendment (7) was passed, which denied residents of the occupied territories, “subjects of enemy states and active members of terrorist organizations” the right to sue for damages caused them outside the framework of combat operations (with minor exceptions). The amendment also stipulated that “the state is not response for damages caused in the conflict zone due to actions by the security forces” and authorized the defense minister to determine, even retroactively, what qualifies as a “conflict zone.”

Challenges from human rights NGOs

Nine Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations petitioned against the amendment and in December 2006 a nine-justice panel of the High Court, headed by then-court President Aharon Barak, ruled that the clause in question granted sweeping immunity to the state, “with the improper aim of exempting the state from all responsibility for damages in conflict zones … in relation to wide categories of actions that are not combat actions even in the broadest definition of that term. What this means is that many injured persons who were not involved in any hostile activity, and who were not hurt incidentally during actions by security forces meant to address any sort of hostile activity, are left without remedy for the harm to their life and their property.”

The judges ruled that the key clause of the amendment (No. 7, Section 5c), which included the definition of conflict zones, shall be nullified because it violated the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom. However, the court did not strike down Section 5b, regarding the identity of the casualties, but it did say that this section could be discussed in specific cases.

Immediately after the ruling was handed down, the government began working to have the amendment restored, indirectly. Amendment 8 was passed in 2012, and this time there was no High Court petition, even though it was even more sweeping than Amendment 7. In the new amendment, the definition of military activity as “being done in circumstances of mortal or physical danger” was expanded to “actions of a combat nature, considering the entirety of the circumstances, including the objective of the operation, its geographical location and the threat to the force carrying it out.” In other words, the state needn’t make the claim that soldiers were in any danger in order to justify its request to reject a suit for damages.

Additionally, to evade the definition of a “conflict zone” that was nullified by the High Court’s order, Amendment 8 added the following words to the part concerning the identity of the injured party who is not authorized to sue (the subject of an enemy country, etc.): “or one who is not an Israeli citizen, who is resident of an area outside of Israel that the government has declared, by order, as enemy territory.” In other words: Instead of a “conflict zone,” the new amendment refers to “enemy territory.”

In October 2014, the government issued an order declaring Gaza enemy territory. The order was applied retroactively, beginning July 7, 2014 (just before the start of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza).

Nabahin’s lawyers believe his severe injury falls exactly in that place where the High Court justices, in their 2006 ruling, sought to prevent the state from being able to evade responsibility: the seemingly unjustified injuring by soldiers, the state’s emissaries, of a person who was not involved in any hostilities and at a time and place where no hostile activity was occurring. In their letter, Jabarin and Shehadeh wrote:

“The state is effectively being given total immunity, meaning it is exempt from responsibility for damages in relation to many areas of activity that do not qualify as combat activity, even in the broad and inherently problematic definition, given to this concept in the law. Thus many victims find themselves without recourse. … In this way [the state] is not trying to adapt the laws on damages to a war situation, but rather to deny the applicability of these laws to many actions that are not combat-related…”

The attorneys – and their permanently paralyzed client – are now waiting for the state’s response to their objection.

#Amira_Hass

Plongée dans mes archives de novembre 2004 (eh oui, je garde tout!).

George W. Bush est réélu le 2 novembre contre John Kerry (et Ralph Nader dans le rôle de Jill Stein) alors que son bilan est terrible et que “tout le monde” pense la victoire de Kerry nécessaire et évidente...

Les articles du New-York Times pourraient être publiés ces jours ci en changeant juste quelques noms propres, si ça vous amuse de les relire...

Si l’analyse est bonne (mais ça se discute toujours: est-ce la “faute” des pauvres, incultes, sexistes et racistes, qui votent mal ou de l’establishment démocrate dans sa tour d’ivoire qui a perdu le contact avec la réalité?), les leçons, douze ans après, ne semblent pas avoir été tirées.

D’autre part, l’un des articles (et un autre de Michael Moore que je n’inclue pas ici) insiste sur le fait que les jeunes, eux, ont “bien” voté, sous entendant que le vote républicain est un vote du passé et que l’avenir appartient aux démocrates. Douze ans plus tard, les jeunes sont devenus vieux et la promesse n’a pas été tenue...

Op-Ed Columnist: Living Poor, Voting Rich
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, The New York Times Company, November 3, 2004
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/03/opinion/living-poor-voting-rich.html
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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: The Day the Enlightenment Went Out
GARRY WILLS, The New-York Times, November 4, 2004
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/opinion/the-day-the-enlightenment-went-out.html?_r=0
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The Red Zone
MAUREEN DOWD, The New-York Times, 4 November 2004
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/opinion/the-red-zone.html
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A Blue City (Disconsolate, Even) Bewildered by a Red America
JOSEPH BERGER, The New-York Times, November 4, 2004
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/nyregion/a-blue-city-disconsolate-even-bewildered-by-a-red-america.html
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Scrooge’s nightmare
Leonard Steinhorn, Salon, November 25, 2004
▻http://www.salon.com/2004/11/25/new_silent_majority
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On recevait aussi à l’époque des messages plus ou moins humoristiques sur la situation. Aujourd’hui ce serait plutôt sur Facebook, mais ce sont à peu près les mêmes:

Blue America Charter
Barbara Moran and Brian Collins, November 3, 2004

Fellow citizens!

It gives me great happiness to unveil our plans for the liberation of Blue America. For the past three years, we have, in conjunction with a handful of MIT engineers, been constructing a giant, cordless circular saw, which is now complete. With this saw, we plan to carve our thriving, prosperous eastern Blue nation away from the spreading infection of red america. We will then set a mighty sail, which will carry us around the tip of South America and allow us to join our Blue compadres on the West Coast. We will use our giant saw to free our friends, then join our two lands together and sail to a designated point in the Pacific Ocean. There, we will establish our new country: Blue America.

Basic Tenets
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Blue America will be founded on the same ideals as the former United States of America. These ideals, sadly, have been decimated by the same red plague that scrambled the brains of so many of our unfortunate former fellow-citizens. These ideals include:
- The Separation of Church and State
- Freedom of Speech
- Freedom of Assembly and Protest
- Equal rights for all and due process under the Constitution

Blue America will have many additional aspirations not shared by red america, including:
- The goal of giving every citizen high quality education and health care (even prescription drugs!), regardless of their race, ethnic background or income
- The right to a satisfying career with fair pay, job security and an eight-hour workday
- Respect for other cultures and honesty in our dealings with other countries
- The right to worship the deity of your choice (or not)
- Family values, meaning the right of anyone to form a family if they wish
- Compassion for the poor and sick
- Belief in the value of: fresh food, recycling, renewable energy, independent bookstores and movie theatres, literacy, the free exchange of ideas, clean air, clean water, sushi, Julia Child cookbooks, Scrabble, humor, honesty, exercise, art, poetry, community gardens, mass transit, local cheese, the scientific process, the theory of Evolution, national parks, bicycles, music, sidewalks, trees, books, family farms, locally-owned diners with revolving pie cabinets, and decent coffee.

Membership
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Membership in Blue America will be limited to residents of states that voted “blue” in the 2004 election, with the following exceptions:

1. Red “carriers” (or “vectors”) who are currently living in Blue America are kindly asked to leave before the liberation.
2. Members of certain Blue outposts in red america (like Austin, Texas) will be allowed to apply for Blue America citizenship.
3. Members of Blue outposts in Ohio (Oberlin) will also be allowed to apply for citizenship. However, if accepted they must accept a one-year probationary period. Similarly, members of Blue outposts in Florida (South Beach) will also be allowed to apply, but must accept a two-year probationary period.
4. Members of the Bush family are excluded for life, as are members of the Bush cabinet and all Fox News anchors, and Kid Rock. (Sorry, Colin Powell, but you had your chance.)

Sports
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The first official sports team of Blue America will be the Boston Red Sox (hereby re-named the Boston Blue Sox). However, red propagandist Curt Schilling will be cut from the Sox and banished to the worst team in baseball. Also, we’ll take Derek Jeter, if he’s interested.

Timetable
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Engineers have already begun separating northern Maine from the continent. We plan to be fully liberated and set sail on Blue Inauguration day, January 21, 2005. Pack your guitars, books and Hawaiian shirts, and let’s hear it for the blue, white and blue!

Bring on the saw!
Barb and Brian
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Disaffected Americans look north to ’better government’
MARINA JIMÉNEZ, 4 November 2004

Some Americans are willing to do anything to avoid another four years of George W. Bush — even move to Canada.

Joe Auerbach is so disappointed with Mr. Bush’s election victory that he is planning to give up a job as a systems analyst and leave his comfortable life in Columbus, Ohio, to move to a country with “a better government and more reasonable people.”

“Today, once the Bush victory was clear, my e-mail was burning up with people vowing to leave the U.S. for Canada,” said Mr. Auerbach, 27.

“I don’t want to be living in the U.S. when China decides we are a threat and when George Bush starts drafting computer engineers into the army. I’m morally opposed to the Bush administration.”

He and several other disenchanted Americans are contacting immigration lawyers north of the border to see whether they qualify to immigrate to Canada. It is too soon to say whether this is political hot air or the start of a new trend in immigration.

But among some middle-class, liberal Americans, there is a growing sense of political disengagement as they realize the majority of their fellow citizens support the conservative agenda of Mr. Bush, who received 51 per cent of the popular vote, winning more votes than any other president in U.S. history.

“Mr. Auerbach is one of many middle-class Americans who have a philosophical difference with the direction the U.S. is taking,” said Sergio Karas, a Toronto immigration lawyer. “I have received several inquiries from people like him who want to move here.”

Jacqueline Bart, a Toronto immigration lawyer, said she recently attended a conference in New York and more than a dozen U.S. lawyers asked her about sending their children to study in Canada. “There is a sense of hesitation about the direction Bush is taking the country in,” she said.

Clyde Williamson, a libertarian from Ohio, feels the Bush administration is too conservative on social-justice issues such as gay rights, abortion and the medicinal use of marijuana. He is also opposed to the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

“I don’t think the U.S. is going to turn into Nazi Germany or anything. But it is going to become a much more conservative country,” said the 29-year-old computer-security engineer.

Others feel Mr. Bush’s unilateralist foreign policy is more troubling even than his social conservatism. A former U.S. diplomat who has already applied for permanent-resident status said yesterday that Mr. Bush’s election victory has accelerated his determination to relocate permanently to Vancouver.

“I’m watching this administration preside over the virtual destruction of relations with the Muslim world — and, I fear, end up strengthening the forces of terrorism as a result,” he said.

“The values of Canada are what I thought the values of the U.S. used to be: personal freedoms, a sense of need for a global community and consensus. The U.S. is losing its way.”

A Toronto lawyer representing three U.S. soldiers who have fled to Canada to avoid fighting in Iraq said Mr. Bush’s re-election means more U.S. deserters are likely to seek refugee status north of the border.

Jeffry House, a Vietnam-era draft-dodger who is steering the refugee claims of the three young men, says he has received about 80 e-mails from other U.S. soldiers stationed around the world, inquiring about escaping to Canada to avoid serving in Iraq. At least five U.S. soldiers are believed to have fled to Canada.

Maria Iadinardi, spokeswoman for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, said it is too soon to say whether there has been a spike in the number of Americans being granted permanent residency, noting the number has fluctuated in recent years from a low of 4,437 in 1998 to a high of 5,604 in 2001.

So far this year, 5,353 Americans have become permanent residents.
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“Ladies and gentlemen, drop your borders: Now that George W. Bush has been officially elected, single, sexy, American liberals - already a threatened species - will be desperate to escape. These lonely, afraid (did we mention really hot?) progressives will need a safe haven. You can help. Open your heart, and your home. Marry an American. Legions of Canadians have already pledged to sacrifice their singlehood to save our southern neighbours from four more years of cowboy conservatism...” To be continued on:
▻http://www.marryanamerican.ca
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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
–- H.L. Mencken, journalist and satirist (1880-1956)
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THINGS WE SHOULD DO NOW WHILE WE STILL CAN

Get that abortion you’ve always wanted
Drink a nice clean glass of water
Two words - doggy style
Cash your social security check
See a doctor of your own choosing
Hug your draft age child
Visit Syria, or any foreign country for that matter
Get that gas mask you’ve been putting off buying
Move out of the red states
Horde gas
Buy all the porn you can carry
Borrow questionable books from the library - constitutional law books, Catcher
in the Rye, Harry Potter, Tropic of Cancer
If you have an idea for an art piece involving a crucifix - do it now
Two words - come out - then go back in - HURRY!
Jam in all the Alzheimer’s stem cell research you can
Stay out late before the curfews start
Get within 6 feet of a stripper in a state where its still allowed
Go see Bruce Springsteen before he has his “accident”
Go see Mount Rushmore before the “W” addition
Use the phrase - “you can’t do that - this is America”
If you’re white - marry a black person, if you’re black - marry a white person.
If you’re gay, learn to pass.
Take a snowmobile-noise free walk in Yosemite, without being hit by a base-jumper.
Enroll your kid in art or music class
Start your school day “without” a prayer
Pass on secrets of evolution to future genes
Learn French
Let’s go and live in France.
Attend a commitment ceremony with your gay friends.
Take a factory tour anywhere in the US.
Try to take photographs of animals on the endangered species list.
Visit Florida before the polar ice caps melt.
Visit Nevada before it becomes radioactive.
Visit Alaska before “The Big Spill”.
Visit Massachusetts while it is still a State.
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Et deux sites web qui sont encore valables, 12 ans plus tard:

▻http://www.sorryeverybody.com
▻http://www.apologiesaccepted.com

#Etats-Unis #Donald_Trump #Hillary_Clinton #George_Bush #John_Kerry #2016 #2004 #histoire #élections_présidentielles

Ken Burns explique que Donald Trump est l’héritier de Joseph McCarthy
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z13FoWqtQy0

Joseph McCarthy’s lawyer was Donald Trump mentor.

Il suffit de regarder les entrées de Wikipedia pour identifier le rôle que joue l’interview dans la lutte entre les impérialistes démocrates et le réactionnaires républicains. La lignée de Trump est quand même intéressante.

Joseph Mcarthy
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

Roy Cohn
►https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

Cohn’s direct examination of Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, produced testimony that was central to the Rosenbergs’ conviction and subsequent execution. Greenglass testified that he had given the Rosenbergs classified documents from the Manhattan Project that had been stolen by Klaus Fuchs. Greenglass would later claim that he lied at the trial in order “to protect himself and his wife, Ruth, and that he was encouraged by the prosecution to do so.” Cohn always took great pride in the Rosenberg verdict and claimed to have played an even greater part than his public role. He said in his autobiography that his own influence had led to both Chief Prosecutor Saypol and Judge Irving Kaufman being appointed to the case. He further said that Kaufman imposed the death penalty, based on his personal recommendation.

J. Edgar Hoover, who recommended him to Joseph McCarthy.

Cohn invited his friend G. David Schine, an anti-Communist propagandist, to join McCarthy’s staff as a consultant. When Schine was drafted into the US Army in 1953, Cohn made repeated and extensive efforts to procure special treatment for Schine. He contacted military officials from the Secretary of the Army down to Schine’s company commander and demanded for Schine to be given light duties, extra leave, and exemption from overseas assignment. At one point, Cohn is reported to have threatened to “wreck the Army” if his demands were not met. That conflict, along with McCarthy’s accusations of Communists in the defense department, led to the Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954, in which among other developments the Army charged Cohn and McCarthy with using improper pressure on Schine’s behalf, and McCarthy and Cohn countercharged that the Army was holding Schine “hostage” in an attempt to squelch McCarthy’s investigations into Communists in the Army.

In 1971, businessman Donald Trump moved to Manhattan, where he became involved in large construction projects. Trump came to public attention in 1973 when he was accused by the Justice Department of violations of the Fair Housing Act in the operation of 39 buildings. The government alleged that Trump’s corporation quoted different rental terms and conditions to blacks and made false “no vacancy” statements to blacks for apartments they managed in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.

Representing Trump, Cohn filed a countersuit against the government for $100 million, asserting that the charges were irresponsible and baseless. The countersuit was unsuccessful. Trump settled the charges out of court in 1975 without admitting guilt, saying he was satisfied that the agreement did not "compel the Trump organization to accept persons on welfare as tenants unless as qualified as any other tenant.

Ken Burns
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns

Burns is a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party, with almost $40,000 in political donations.

Christiane Amanpour
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Amanpour

Amanpour is the niece-in-law of General Nader Jahanbani, who commanded the Imperial Iranian Air Force for nearly 20 years until he was executed by Islamic Revolutionaries in 1979, and of his younger brother Khosrow, who was married to Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi. Amanpour’s uncle, Captain Nasrollah Amanpour, was married to the younger sister of Khosrow and Nader.
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During the height of the Syrian crisis, in mid to late 2013, Amanpour started a push for the case of war with Syria. She traveled to the UK and appeared on several news programs, not as a journalist, but as an “expert” on the Middle East, and pushed the Obama administration line for war in Syria.

#USA #politique #racisme #anticommunisme #impérialisme élections

Palestinian officer sentenced to one year in prison for criticizing Abbas
Oct. 12, 2016 6:47 P.M. (Updated: Oct. 12, 2016 6:47 P.M.)
▻http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=773536

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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A Palestinian military court in Ramallah ordered that a Palestinian military liaison officer be sentenced to a year in prison and have his military rank suspended for writing a post on social media criticizing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for attending the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Osama Mansour’s sentence was awaiting final approval from Abbas, Mansour’s son said, adding that the order had been issued while Mansour’s lawyer was out of the country.

Verizon Lawyer Argues for Greater Legal Protection for Customer Location Data
▻https://theintercept.com/2016/10/11/verizon-lawyer-argues-for-greater-legal-protection-for-customer-locati

Verizon’s general counsel and head of public policy made a public case this week for reconsidering legal protections on customer data in light of evolving technology that allows companies to almost continuously track cell phone users’ location. Craig Stillman’s opinion piece published Monday in Bloomberg Law comes just days after Reuters revealed that Yahoo, the company Verizon is reportedly buying, helped the U.S. government scan millions of emails for a specific “digital signature,” (...)

#NSA #Yahoo ! #géolocalisation #surveillance #Verizon

##Yahoo_!

#Medhanie l’Erythréen est-il un redoutable passeur ou un migrant pris dans une erreur judiciaire ?

« Ce n’est pas juste, je ne peux pas accepter une décision qui est aussi injuste. » La voix frêle de la jeune femme se brise en sanglots. Au téléphone depuis Khartoum, Seghen refuse d’admettre ce qui arrive à son frère cadet. « La vérité est claire, Medhanie est innocent, pourquoi les procureurs s’obstinent-ils ? » Cette question plane sur le tribunal de Palerme, en Sicile, depuis quatre mois. Qui est ce Medhanie aux cheveux crépus et au regard blême, présenté pour la troisième fois devant la justice italienne, mercredi 21 septembre ? Est-il Medhanie Yehdego Mered, le chef érythréen du réseau de passeurs de migrants désigné à ce jour comme le plus important d’Afrique du Nord, ou s’agit-il de Medhanie Tesfamariam Behre, un simple migrant érythréen arrêté par erreur ?

http://s2.lemde.fr/image2x/2016/09/23/768x0/5002232_7_0ea6_2016-09-22-27c874e-20474-11gok99_007e882cb07661d664cb5dde4fca18aa.jpg

▻http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2016/09/23/medhanie-l-erythreen-est-il-un-redoutable-passeur-ou-un-migrant-pris-dans-un

#passeurs #asile #migrations #smugglers #réfugiés

Woman sues parents for sharing embarrassing childhood photos
▻http://www.thelocal.at/20160914/woman-sues-parents-for-sharing-embarrassing-childhood-photos-on-facebooknj

A 18-year-old woman from Carinthia is suing her parents for posting photos of her on Facebook without her consent. She claims that since 2009 they have made her life a misery by constantly posting photos of her, including embarrassing and intimate images from her childhood. Her lawyer Michael Rami says that to date, her parents have posted 500 images of her on the social media site without her consent, and he believes she has a good chance of winning in court. The shared images include (...)

#Facebook #enfants #procès

Israeli forces shoot 2 Palestinians in Hebron after alleged car ramming attack
Sept. 16, 2016 2:08 P.M. (Updated: Sept. 17, 2016 11:45 A.M.)
▻http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=773158

HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man at the entrance of the Kiryat Arba settlement in the occupied West Bank district of Hebron and critically wounded a woman who was also in the vehicle after the two allegedly carried out a car ramming attack on Friday that left three Israeli civilians injured.

The slain Palestinian was later identified by locals as Moussa Muhammad Khaddour, 18, while the wounded Palestinian woman was identified as Moussa’s fiance, 18-year-old Raghad Abdullah Abdullah Khaddour, the sister of Majd Khaddour who was killed by Israeli forces at the same junction in June after attempting a car ramming attack.

Israeli army spokesperson Peter Lerner said in a statement that three Israelis were wounded in the attack, without specifying the extent of their injuries.

He added that Raghad Khaddour was evacuated from the scene. Lerner also posted a picture of the crime scene on twitter, showing blood-stained car seats with a large knife placed on the passenger seat. Lerner did not reference or explain why a knife was placed in the center of the passenger seat in his statement.

Later Friday evening, Karim Ajwah, a lawyer from the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ affairs, said Ragahad Khadour was “in a difficult and worrying medical condition.”

Ajwah said that Khadour, who was at the intensive care unit of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, was shot with live fire in the abdomen area, connected to a respirator, and had completed an operation earlier in the day. Her condition was difficult but stabilizing, he said.

The two Palestinians originate from the village of Bani Naim, which has experienced an escalated crackdown by Israeli forces after a series of attacks were committed by Palestinian residents of the area at the end of June and early July. The village was completely sealed from the rest of the West Bank for more than a month as Israeli forces placed the entire village under a military blockade and revoked Israeli travel permits for some 2,700 residents of the village.

#Palestine_assassinée

Israeli forces evict Palestinian family in East Jerusalem to make room for settlers
Sept. 15, 2016 3:46 P.M. (Updated: Sept. 15, 2016 4:28 P.M.)
▻http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=773147

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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces Thursday evicted a Palestinian family from their home in the neighborhood of Saadiya in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem in order to make room for Jewish-only housing managed by right-wing settler group Ateret Cohanim.

Mazen Qirrish, the owner of the house, told Palestinian Authority (PA)-run Wafa News Agency that Israeli police broke into the house and gave him an eviction order issued by an Israeli court, claiming that Qirrish was no longer a “protected tenant.”

Muhannad Jubara, the lawyer for the family, told Ma’an in May that the Qirrish family fell under “protected status,” which refers to certain Palestinians in East Jerusalem who held rental agreements with the Jordanian government before 1967, when Israel occupied the Palestinian territory.

#colonisation #vol

Egypt: Alkarama Alerts the UN of the Disappearance of a Lawyer

On 2 September 2016, Alkarama referred the case of Mohammad Mahmoud Sadeq Ahmed, an Egyptian lawyer who disappeared on 30 August, to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID). That day, Mahmoud Sadeq Ahmed was abducted by members of the police forces in Giza train station and has since gone missing, with the authorities refusing to provide information on him. His case adds to the thousands of disappearances that occurred in the country and that Alkarama has been extensively documenting in recent months.

▻http://en.alkarama.org/2203-egypt-alkarama-alerts-the-un-of-the-disappearance-of-a-lawyer
#Egypte #disparitions

Inside The Global “Club” That Helps Executives Escape Their Crimes | Chris Hamby
▻https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrishamby/super-court

A parallel legal universe, open only to corporations and largely invisible to everyone else, helps executives convicted of crimes escape... Source: BuzzFeed News

Israeli forces use electric shock on 16-year-old Palestinian prisoner, assault others
▻http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772751

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an)— Palestinians being held in Etzion prison were subjected to assaults, while Israeli soldiers reportedly used electric shock on a 16-year-old Palestinian prisoner, according to a statement released Thursday by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

Jacqueline Fararrja, a lawyer from PPS, said in the statement that after visiting the prison she found that one prisoner, 16-year-old Ahmad Yusry Maswada from Hebron, was reportedly assaulted by Israeli soldiers with a rifle, before they used electric shocks on him. He was also blindfolded and taken by a military vehicle.

Farraja added that Maswada is still suffering from pains in one of his hands due to the assault.

#Israel #Israël #enfants #torture

Egypt to investigate spying charges against Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh and Hamdeen Sabbahi | Mada Masr

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Allegations that Egyptian politicians Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh and Hamdeen Sabbahi have spied for Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were referred Monday to Egypt’s State Security Agency for investigation.

The allegations were leveled by lawyer Ashraf Farahat after the two men attended a conference in Lebanon titled: “The general Arab conference to support resistance and reject its categorization as terrorism,” organized by the National Arab Conference in collaboration with the Islamic National Conference, the General Conference for Arab Parties and the Arab Popular Mobilization Body.

Organizers said in media statements that the conference aimed to demonstrate popular support for resistance movements in response to what they called campaigns led by the US and Saudi Arabia against them. It stated that the Palestinian cause and resistance remain a common ground for Arab political factions to unite around.

The conference was held on the 10th anniversary of the 34-day July war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006, which ended with Lebanon’s Hezbollah successfully repelling the Israeli attack.

10 Rules of Survival if Stopped by the Police | Talk Back | PBS
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10 Rules of Survival if Stopped by the Police

1. Be polite and respectful when stopped by the police. Keep your mouth closed.

2. Remember that your goal is to get home safely. If you feel that your rights have been violated, you and your parents have the right to file a formal complaint with your local police jurisdiction.

3. Don’t, under any circumstance, get into an argument with the police.

4. Always remember that anything you say or do can be used against you in court.

5. Keep your hands in plain sight and make sure the police can see your hands at all times.

6. Avoid physical contact with the police. No sudden movements, and keep hands out of your pockets.

7. Do not run, even if you are afraid of the police.

8. Even if you believe that you are innocent, do not resist arrest.

9. Don’t make any statements about the incident until you are able to meet with a lawyer or public defender.

10. Stay calm and remain in control. Watch your words, body language and emotions.

Israeli forces kill 1 Palestinian youth, injure 1, and detain 1 other
July 13, 2016 9:44 A.M. (Updated : July 13, 2016 1:03 P.M.)
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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A Palestinian youth was killed and another injured by Israeli forces while a third was detained early on Wednesday, as soldiers opened fire at the youths’ vehicle in the town of al-Ram in the occupied West Bank’s Jerusalem district.

The youth who was killed was identified as Anwar al-Salaymeh , 22, and the two survivors were identified as Fares Khader al-Rishq, 20, who remains critically injured, and Muhammad Nassar, 20, who was detained by Israeli forces after the incident.

Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces opened fire at three Palestinians youths, all residents of al-Ram, in a vehicle inside the town around dawn, as the three were seemingly unaware that Israeli forces were deployed in the town and conducting raids.

An Israeli army spokesperson said that the presence of Israeli authorities in the town was due to the fact that Israeli forces, border guards and police reportedly found a blacksmith workshop in al-Ram that manufactured weapons.

Witnesses confirmed that Israeli forces and military vehicles raided al-Ram, closed the main street and raided a blacksmith workshop in the area.

The Israeli spokesperson added that during the military raid, border guards allegedly “saw a speeding vehicle heading towards them” and opened fire, killing one of the passengers and injuring another while a third was detained and transferred for interrogation.

According to locals, al-Rishq’s vehicle arrived near the area where the raid was taking place, and Israeli soldiers opened fire at the car from a close distance, injuring al-Rishq and al-Salaymeh, who later died.

Witnesses said that Israeli forces prevented Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances from reaching the injured.

#Palestine_assassinée

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Par crainte d’une attaque à la voiture bélier, la police tire et tue un Palestinien
Les policiers perquisitionnaient un atelier d’armes à al-Ram, Cisjordanie, quand un véhicule a accéléré vers eux, selon l’armée
Times of Israel Staff 13 juillet 2016, 12:18
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Des gardes-frontières opérant dans la ville palestinienne d’al-Ram, au nord de Jérusalem, ont ouvert le feu tôt mercredi matin contre un véhicule qui aurait, d’après les policiers, accéléré en leur direction. Un passager palestinien a été tué.
Une deuxième personne présente dans la voiture a été blessée. Une troisième est indemne, mais a été arrêtée par la police pour être interrogée.

L’un des garde-frontières a ouvert le feu, selon l’armée, après s’être « senti en danger ».

Un communiqué de l’armée israélienne a annoncé qu’une enquête avait été ouverte.

L’opération a dévoilé un atelier de fabrication d’armes dans la ville, a annoncé l’armée. Les forces de sécurité ont lancé une opération de répression majeure des manufactures d’armes souterraines en Cisjordanie, et en ont fermé 16 depuis le début de l’année, selon l’armée.

D’autre part, 13 Palestiniens ont été arrêtés dans la nuit, dont un agent du Hamas près de Tulkarem.

Refugee who fled Boko Haram for Italy killed by ’ultra’ football fan | World news | The Guardian

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“ My client did not expect that punching the migrant would have this effect , and he places the episode in a defensive context.”

#racisme #italie #football

Gaddafi son Saif al-Islam ’released’ from Libya jail, his lawyer tells France 24
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Muammar Gaddafi’s most prominent son has been released by his Libyan jailors, his lawyer at the ICC has told FRANCE 24. Saif al-Islam was sentenced to death in 2015 for crimes committed during the revolution that overthrew his father.

The former Libyan dictator’s second son “was given his liberty on April 12, 2016”, lawyer Karim Khan said Wednesday, adding that Saif al-Islam was released under an amnesty and “in accordance with (Libyan) law”.

Khan declined to say whether he had spoken to his client, saying only that he “is well and safe and in Libya”.

Affaire #Mimran : les 200.000 dollars qui enfoncent #Netanyahou
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Benjamin Netanyahou, le 27 juin 2016, aux Etats-Unis. © Reuters La retranscription du premier interrogatoire d’Arnaud Mimran dans le dossier du “casse du siècle” contredit les déclarations du premier ministre israélien, selon lesquelles il n’aurait touché de l’affairiste français qu’une unique donation de 40 000 dollars en 2001.

#International #France #CO2 #Quotas_carbone

The big unfairness in America’s asylum system. How Central Americans fleeing gang violence don’t qualify

Alicia* was 14 years old when she was raped by members of one of the violent criminal gangs that have made El Salvador the homicide capital of the world. Pregnant and facing the threat of further violence, she negotiated the hazardous overland route to the United States, where she had family. However, once there, she struggled to find a lawyer who would take on her asylum case.

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Key Witness in French Tycoon’s Fraud Case Is Holed Up in Tel Aviv Flat

Haaretz-Mediapart probe traces moves of Jeremy Grinholz, alleged major cog in French case involving Arnaud Mimran dubbed ’sting of the century.’
Dov Alfon Jun 16, 2016 7:57 AM
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PARIS – A key witness in a massive French fraud case known as the “sting of the century” is currently hiding out in Israel, a joint investigation by Haaretz and the French website Mediapart has discovered.

The witness, a French Jew named Jeremy Grinholz who also goes by the name of Eitan Liron, allegedly managed many of the carbon trades that allegedly enabled the defendants to steal 283 million euros from the French government.

Grinholz agreed to turn state’s evidence against his former partners, and the Israeli police deposed him in May 2014. Two senior French police officers were present during his interrogations, and his affidavits ultimately enabled the French to indict several people, including businessman Arnaud Mimran, who frequently hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in France and has also donated to him.

On the last day of his interrogation, Grinholz said he believed Mimran had arranged the assassination of Israeli criminal Samy Souied, the fraudsters’ leader, who was murdered in Paris under mysterious circumstances in December 2010.

Grinholz said that as his suspicions grew, he teamed up with two of Souied’s other partners to force Mimran to take a polygraph test. The polygraph was administered in early 2012 at the Carlton Hotel in Tel Aviv. Grinholz said Mimran denied any involvement in Souied’s murder, but the polygraph operators concluded he was lying.

During his own police interrogation, Mimran confirmed having taken a polygraph but said he didn’t remember the results.

The French authorities, hoping to charge Mimran with murder as well as fraud, asked Grinholz to testify at the trial in Paris, but he refused. The French officials then asked their Israeli counterparts to convince Grinholz to return to Paris to testify. The French-Israeli dialogue was conducted by a joint working group set up in 2014, when MK Tzipi Livni was justice minister.

The working group’s biggest success was the transfer to Paris of a French alleged swindler with Israeli citizenship, Cyril Astruc, who was charged with crimes very similar to those of Mimran, though on a smaller scale. Astruc, who was hiding in Herzliya under his Israeli name, Alex Khann, initially refused to heed a recommendation that he return to France. But Israeli police then began “to make his life hell,” as he put it in conversations with associates whose content was obtained by Haaretz-Mediapart.

Police raided his house, searched it for 10 hours and arrested two illegal Filipina workers, he said. Then, when he was involved in a traffic accident that caused no casualties, police interrogated him for hours about whether he was responsible for it. Finally, he was arrested on suspicion of corruption and spent two months in jail.

But only after the front of his house was sprayed with Kalashnikov bullets – apparently by a rival Israeli crime organization – did Astruc tell his friends he “got the hint” and returned to France. There he was arrested at the airport and spent a year and a half in jail before being released with restrictions in 2015.

Grinholz, however, still refused to return, and on April 18, 2015, the French gave up. This was four months after Livni quit the government, so Netanyahu was the acting justice minister.

The French delegation returned to Paris and reported that Grinholz definitely wouldn’t testify at Mimran’s trial. Therefore, his name was added to the indictment, albeit on less serious charges due to his cooperation with investigators. To this day, Mimran hasn’t been questioned about Souied’s murder.

A French Justice Ministry spokesman said the massive fraud case had resulted in numerous French requests for Israeli help. “It could be this cooperation was complicated not only by its sensitivity, but also by its imbalance, since many French criminals are in Israel, whereas Israel rarely makes requests of France,” he said. “Nevertheless, given the differences between the two countries’ legal systems, legal cooperation between the two countries is a daily affair and has improved sharply since the special working group on this issue was established in February 2014.”

The French spokesman declined to answer any of Haaretz-Mediapart’s specific questions, saying the case was now in court, “and only the court can determine what the level of cooperation on this issue was.”

But a French legal source told Haaretz that when the fraud case began, and its dimensions weren’t yet clear, bilateral cooperation was terrible. In 2012, the French investigating judge even filed an official complaint about Israel’s lack of cooperation. That complaint prompted frank bilateral discussions, resulting in a major improvement in 2014, most notably on the Grinholz deposition.

“Could the Israelis, in the absence of any extradition request, which in any case would surely have taken us two or three years, helped us via a deportation procedure or conveying him to the border?” the source continued. “These issues are too complex to be answered one-sidedly.”

In April 2015, the source added, the French realized “that the Israelis couldn’t persuade Grinholz to return to France, unlike in the previous case you mentioned – which isn’t completely comparable, even if it’s about the same crimes. Therefore, we filed an indictment and told the court that Grinholz lives in Israel and refuses to comply with the summons we served him via our Israeli colleagues.”

David Shimron, Netanyahu’s attorney, said, “Prime Minister Netanyahu has no connection to Grinholz or Astruc and has never dealt with their issues, ever. Nor were Mimran’s issues brought to his attention when he was justice minister or at any other time. The justice minister is not involved in criminal cases. Those are dealt with solely by the professionals, the state prosecutor and the attorney general, and the justice minister exercises no real judgment in them. The independence of the prosecution in criminal cases is absolute, and so it was during those few months that circumstances led Prime Minister Netanyahu to hold the justice portfolio.”

A spokesman for the Israeli Justice Ministry said the ministry naturally couldn’t comment on any specific cases that were under discussion between Israeli and French authorities. But he stressed that over the years, there had been continuous cooperation between the two countries in the battle against serious crime. He said the French-Israeli working group still exists, and Israeli prosecutors and police officers participate in it.

An Israel Police spokesman declined to comment on the specifics of Astruc’s accusations against the force, but said the fact that investigations had been opened and indictments filed against several suspects in the case “speaks for itself.”

#mafia_du_co2 #Arnaud_Mimran

French Mayors Prohibited by Israeli Occupation from Visiting Marwan Barghouthi
15 June 2016
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The Israeli occupation authorities prohibited, yesterday, a French delegation of 16 Mayors of French cities from visiting Marwan Barghouti in Israeli Galbou’ (Gilboa) prison. The Mayors are part of the Barghouthi network composed of 23 French municipalities which granted Marwan Barghouthi honorary citizenship, replicating a similar decision taken by French and other cities around the world to grant Mandela honorary citizenship in support of the anti-Apartheid struggle. The Israeli prison’s administration denied the visit of the French delegation which decided to demonstrate in front of the prison its support to the freedom of Marwan and all Palestinian prisoners.

The lawyer Fadwa Barghouti, Marwan Barghouthi’s wife, stated “This delegation carries a powerful message of support and solidarity to the cause of freedom, and this message will reach Marwan, the prisoners and the Palestinian people whatever measures the Israeli occupation undertakes to prevent that”.

​Marwan Barghouthi, the first Palestinian parliamentarian to be arrested and prominent political leader, has spent over two decades in Israeli jails, including the last 14 years. Many states and international figures, the European Parliament and the Inter-Parliamentary Union have called repeatedly for his release.

Detention of Palestinian circus performer extended despite international outcry
June 13, 2016 6:10 P.M. (Updated: June 13, 2016 11:00 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities on Monday decided to extend the administrative detention of a 23-year-old Palestinian circus performer, in spite of widespread outcry from activists and rights groups around the world demanding his release.

Israeli authorities ruled to extend Muhammad Faisal Abu Sakha’s remand for another six months from June 13 until Dec. 12, in addition to the six months he has already served in administrative detention — Israel’s controversial policy of internment without trial or charge.

According to prisoner’s rights group Addameer, a confirmation hearing for the ruling is scheduled for June 15, during which a military judge may confirm, limit, or cancel the administrative detention order.

In a statement released by the Palestinian Circus School, where Abu Sakha worked, they said that neither they, nor Abu Sakha’s family or lawyer have received any reason or information regarding his detention — as is customary for administrative detainees that are held by Israel under undisclosed evidence for indefinitely renewable periods of three or six months.

Their statement referred to the Israeli occupation as “a system that knows no humanity,” whose only goal is “to break the spirit of an entire nation.”

#Muhammad_Faisal_Abu_Sakha

EU-Turkey Deal: deportation of homosexual Syrian threatened by ISIS looming

Yesterday evening three lawyers cooperating with PRO ASYL, a local Greek lawyer and the Greek Council for Refugees applied for interim measures at the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg in order to stop the imminent deportation of a Syrian persecuted by ISIS from Greece to Turkey. This is the first case under the EU-Turkey Deal reaching the ECHR.

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#LGBT #Turquie #asile #migrations #renvois #réfugiés #réfugiés_syriens #push-back #refoulement #homosexualité #accord

Palestinian Siblings Killed After Alleged Attack at Qalandiyah to Undergo Autopsy -
Lawyer says Taha family does not object to the autopsy as long as the bodies are handed over for burial immediately afterwards.
Jack Khoury May 08, 2016
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Forensics experts will autopsy the bodies of siblings Maram Ismail, 26, and Ibrahim Taha, 16, shot to death at Qalandiyah checkpoint last month by private security guards after one of them allegedly threw a knife Israeli forces.

The autopsy is scheduled to take place on Tuesday.

Naila Attiya, the family’s lawyer, said the family has no objections to the autopsy as long as the bodies are handed over for burial immediately afterwards. The family is also demanding to see security camera footage of the events. Israel has refused both requests.

The Taha family, citing witnesses, has contested Israel’s version of events of the April 27 shootings, citing witnesses.
Scene of Qalandiyah checkpoint where the Palestinian siblings were killed on April 27, 2016Ahmad Gharabli/AFP

Israeli police said at the time that at least one of the two had pulled out a knife or thrown one, and that they both refused orders to come to a halt at the checkpoint.

Police later said that private security guards rather than police had shot the two and that they were looking into the possibility the shooting was carried out in violation of regulations. On Thursday a judge imposed a gag order on the details of the investigation.

Guards hired from private security firms by the Public Security Ministry are routinely assigned to checkpoints leading from the West Bank into Israel, working alongside police, border police and army troops. Most of the private guards don’t come in contact with the Palestinian population at the checkpoints. They are generally stationed behind concrete positions and are there to protect the police and army personnel.

Ismail was a mother of two girls aged 4 and 5.

#Maram_et_Ibrahim