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UN Security Council puts al-Faqih on terrorism list
The UN Security Council yesterday enrolled the name of the Saudi opposition member Saad al-Faqih on the international list of persons and establishments stand in support of terrorism.
Saudi Arabia-UN, Politics, 12/24/2004
Revisiting past human rights violations to win the bet of the future, intellectuals and political leaders
Several intellectual and political leaders deemed that making a "mature reading" of past human rights violations is a "pedagogical instrument" to turn the painful pages of the past and face the future with more confidence.
Morocco, Politics, 12/24/2004
Ahmed Herzenni: I am a not a victim but a militant opposed to all forms of injustice and exploitation
"I am not a victim but a militant opposed to all forms of injustice, exploitation and arrogance," said former detainee Ahmed Herzenni, as he testified in the 2nd session of public hearings broadcast live on Wednesday by the Moroccan first TV channel (TVM).
Morocco, Politics, 12/24/2004
Former detainee Abdellah Aaqaou calls for turning the page of human rights violations in Morocco
Abdellah Aaqaou, who was detained in the Tazmamart center, called in his testimony during the 2nd session of the public hearings held, on Wednesday, in Rabat by the Justice and Reconciliation Commission (IER), for turning the page of human rights violations in Morocco and for involving all the components of the civil society in order to promote a sound and abuse-free atmosphere of co-existence.
Morocco, Politics, 12/24/2004
Hidou Abdallah calls for reassuring Moroccans that human rights violations will not occur again
Former detainee Hidou Abdallah insisted on Wednesday in his testimony, held part of the second session of public hearings held by the Justice and Reconciliation Commission (IER), that past human rights violations should never occur again, so that Moroccans "can live in the respect of their rights and freedoms."
Morocco, Politics, 12/24/2004
Mostapha El Amrani describes atrocious detention conditions after independence
Former detainee, Mostapha El Amrani, testified on Wednesday in Rabat, in the framework of the public hearings held by the Justice and Reconciliation Commission (IER) on the atrocious torture and ill-treatments he suffered during his detention in the wake of independence.
Morocco, Politics, 12/24/2004
'Our torturers did not respect our woman nature', says former female detainee
Former political detainee, Maria Zouini, who was arrested in 1977 for belonging to a Left Marxist group, affirmed Wednesday her torturers "did not respect her as a woman," adding that the period of her detention was "arbitrary."
Morocco, Politics, 12/24/2004
Saleh Saadallah reports various forms of mistreatment
Former detainee Saleh Saadallah, a victim of past human abuses in Morocco, devoted his testimony, at the second public hearing Wednesday, by the Justice and Reconciliation Commission (IER), to the abuses and mistreatments he underwent at the time of his detention in 1963 at the police station of Maarif, Derb Moulay Chrif, in Casablanca.
Morocco, Politics, 12/24/2004
Moussa: we mediate for solving the Saudi- Libyan differences
The secretary general of the Arab league (AL) Amr Moussa said yesterday that the Arab League is trying to mediate in the escalated Saudi- Libyan differences which provoked Riyadh on Wednesday to take a decision to withdraw its ambassador from Tripoli and asked the Libyan ambassador in Saudi Arabia to leave the country.
Saudi Arabia-Libya, Politics, 12/24/2004
UN denies Washington's interference in the Arab development report, to be published in the first half of 2005
The director of the UNDP Marc Maluk Brown said that the Human development report for 2004 involved with the question of reforms in the Arab states will be issued in the first half of 2005. He denied that the Bush administration to have had practiced any sort of monitoring of its content.
Regional-UN, Politics, 12/24/2004
Kharazi in a sudden visit to Damascus, Beirut and Ankara: some want an Iraqi civil war prepares for division
The Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazi who had met in Damascus yesterday with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before he moved to Beirut in a sudden visit, warned that sides he did not specify "are conspiring to set ablaze a civil war in Iraq leading to its partition."
Syria-Iran, Politics, 12/24/2004
Erdogan ends visit to Syria: we will work to double trade
The Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan concluded a two day visit to Syria yesterday by visiting the religious and archeological sites in Damascus and Aleppo.
Syria-Turkey, Politics, 12/24/2004
Bush signs draft law imposing sanctions on Sudan
The US President George W. Bush signed a new law urging the American government to freeze the assets of the Sudanese government and its officials, over the situation in Darfur.
Sudan-USA, Politics, 12/24/2004
Iraq ambassador to Damascus denied knowing of pictures to resistance men with Syrian officials
Iraqi designated ambassador to Syria Hassan al-Alawi has denied what was quoted about him that he knows about pictures for Iraqi fighters with Syrian officials.
Iraq-Syria, Politics, 12/24/2004
Tareq Aziz will not testify against Saddam
The former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz will not be a witness against the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before the Iraqi criminal court.
Iraq, Politics, 12/24/2004
Returning back to Falluja
The citizens of Falluja city to the west of Baghdad started returning back to their houses to find out a great destruction inflicted by the plenary American attack against the city which started on December 8th.
Iraq, Politics, 12/24/2004
Rumsfeld in Musil
The US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld paid a sudden visit to Musil in north Iraq where he had inspected the American base which was exposed to a large attack on Tuesday.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 12/24/2004
Great turnout for the Palestinian municipal elections, Hamas candidates progressing
Preliminary results of the Palestinian municipal elections indicated a progress for the candidates of the Islamic resistance movement (Hamas) in Toulkarem city in the West Bank.
Palestine, Politics, 12/24/2004
Three Palestinians killed in Khan Younis
Three Palestinians were killed from Toulkarem camp in the West Bank by the bullets of a special Israeli force as it was hiding in one house of the camp. The said Israeli forces had clashes with activists from al-Aqsa groups martyrs of the Palestine National Liberation Front ( Fatah) in the camp.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 12/24/2004
Syria buys the apples of the Golan via the UN
Syria yesterday stressed its desire to buy the apples crop from the villages of the occupied Syrian Golan heights as a response to the demands of the Syrian farmers who are under the Israeli occupation.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 12/24/2004
Two Russian hirelings arrived in Moscow handed over by Qatar
Two Russian hirelings accused of assassinating former Chechenia president Salim Khan Bander Yaieve arrived yesterday in Moscow after Qatar had approved a Russian request that the two men spend the so remaining period of their imprisonment in the Russian jails.
Qatar-Russia, Politics, 12/24/2004
Trade union opposition for the Jordanian- Israeli trade agreement
The participants in the sit-in deplored the agreement and raised slogans under the titles "areas for exploiting the Jordanian workers," and areas "of killing national industries."
Jordan-Israel, Economics, 12/24/2004
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