By Alice Trudelle, Warsaw Business Journal | By Staff, The Slovenia Times | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “I was wrong,” said Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, who announced that he wrote to his party not to back ACTA in the EU Parliament in its current form. A protest by Anonymous is underway.
Continue reading →By José Yoldi and Julio M. Lázaro, El Pais | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Wikipedia. As people protested outside the Criminal Chamber of the National Court in Spain, a group of partisan judges allied to Spain’s ruling conservative Partido Popular (PP) unanimously condemned Judge Baltasar Garzón to 11 years of disbarment for ordering the recording of conversations of the ringleaders of the corrupt Gürtel group connected to the PP.
Continue reading →By Mujib Mashal and Staff, Al Jazeera. Khmer Rouge chief jailer and torturer Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, escaped justice for over 30 years by hiding out as a Christian aid worker. On Feb 3, 2012, the 69-year old Duch was sentenced to life imprisonment after he appealed a 30-year sentence because he had only “respectfully and strictly followed the orders.” He is the first person to be brought to justice for the killing-field atrocities.
Continue reading →By Danilo Valladares, IPS. A Guatemalan court has ordered former dictator Efrain Rios Montt to stand trial for genocide and crimes against humanity. If convicted, he faces 30 years in prison. Hopefully the members of the army who perpetrated the crimes will also be brought to justice. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff, Access Now | YouTube | Haiti Chery. Protests against ACTA will take place worldwide on Saturday February 11, 2012. Over 1.75 million people have signed a petition against ACTA that is expected to get the endorsement of more than 2 million.
Continue reading →By Danilo Valladares, IPS, with Jose Adan Silva. Crime rates are much lower in Nicaragua than in its northern neighbours El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, because Nicaragua follows a Cuban model of policing that is focused on community and trains its police to serve the society. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff, Innocence Project | Allan Turner, Houston Chronicle | Brandi Grissom, Texas Tribune | Haiti Chery. The Texas State Fire Marshal hurriedly resigned in Dec 2011. This follows protests against the State Attorney General’s July dismissal of a forensic panel that had ripped the methods used to convict Cameron Todd Willingham, a man Texas executed in 2004.
Continue reading →By Staff, Innocence Blog Opponents of capital punishment convened on January 25, 2012 to discuss Washington State Senate Bill 6283 to abolish the death penalty.
Continue reading →By Staff, The Innocence Project | YouTube. “These exonerations illustrate the causes of wrongful convictions that must be remedied.” Video testimonials and discussions by exonerated people.
Continue reading →By Frederico Garcia Lorca, Casa Poema, Kempis, Everything2 | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Frederico García Lorca, one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the Spanish language, became Franco’s most famous victim at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Lorca’s remains might be in one of the unmarked graves that Judge Baltasar Garzon ordered exhumed as part of his probe into Spain’s fascist era. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Olivia Solon, Wired | Kader Arif, European MP Socialists & Democrats of the EU, Translated from the French by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. It is not over. ACTA will not become law if the European Parliament is prevented from making it so in June 2012. Translation of full statement from Kader Arif included. (English | French)
Continue reading →By John Kennedy, Silicon Republic | Sharon Polsky, Interweb Freedom | YouTube (courtesy of Defend Your Freedom) | Why You Should Care About ACTA (booklet, in multiple languages), European Digital Rights | Assembled by Haiti Chery. European countries, including Ireland, might later this week join the US, Australia, Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Canada in supporting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ACTA. This bill would deputize Internet Service Providers to spy on their customers, among other things. Includes PDF with text of ACTA. UPDATED Jan 26th.
Continue reading →By Staff, Tunisia News Agency. In Zarzis, Tunisia, youths stormed a police station and freed a friend who had been arrested for suspicion of damage to property; in Kebili, relatives of several individuals who had been arrested in September have been blocking the activities of a military court for over three days so as to get them transferred to civil justice; in Mazouna, a general strike is in effect to demand provision in the budget for the agricultural sector, reopening of factories, electricity, and clean water. These are just a few examples. (English | French)
Continue reading →By David Badash, New Civil Rights Movement | Nate Cochrane, Sydney Morning Herald | Clay Shirky, YouTube. One day after an international protest joined by father of world wide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Internet hacktivist collective Anonymous brought down the web sites of MPAA, the DOJ, Universal Music Group, RIAA, and the U.S. Copyright Office. Video covers what PIPA and SOPA would do and why more is coming.
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