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ActivitesHuman RightsPalestinePrisoners of Conscience June 15, 2009

Barhoum: Detention of Hamas’s lawmakers in W. Bank big blow to Egyptian efforts

Fawzi Barhoum, the official spokesman of Hamas Movement in the Gaza Strip, has condemned Sunday the detention of five Hamas lawmakers at the hands of the militia of former PA
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestinePrisoners of Conscience June 15, 2009

Taha: No progress in political detention issue

Ayman Taha, a prominent Hamas political figure, has said that political detention was raised during the reconciliation committee meeting grouping representatives of Hamas and Fatah movements but without any progress
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine June 15, 2009

Two boats to set sail to Gaza carrying solidarity activists, relief material

The Palestinian-international campaign to lift the siege on Gaza Strip announced on Sunday that two boats would set sail to the Strip late this month.
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestineTorture June 15, 2009

Hamas supporter dies of torture in Abbas’s jails

Hamas Movement asserted that the death of Haithem Omar, 28, in the prisons of former PA chief Mahmoud Abbas’s security apparatuses in the West Bank was due to severe torture.
Human RightsPalestine June 15, 2009

Carter meets West Bank Hamas MPs

Former US president Jimmy Carter on Sunday met with a number of Hamas lawmakers in the West Bank to discuss their views regarding the Palestine cause and tabled solutions to
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine June 15, 2009

Bahar: PA arrest of MPs foolish

Acting speaker of the Palestinian legislative council Dr. Ahmed Bahar has described as a "foolish" step the Ramallah PA’s detention of Hamas MPs.
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine June 15, 2009

Hamas: Netanyahu’s speech is racist

The Hamas Movement said on Sunday that Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech was racist when demanding the Palestinian people to proclaim their land of Palestine a pure Jewish state and
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine June 15, 2009

The Other Apartheid State

May I start by quoting a South African who emphatically stated as far back as 1961 that “The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there
ActivitesHuman RightsObama June 15, 2009

The Big Hate

Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s — a
ActivitesHuman RightsObamaPalestine June 15, 2009

Can the Palestinians Wait That Long?

The standards have dropped so low, we can’t separate the joke from the insult.” I said to myself, “I am with you brother Cornel West” as I read it in