KBR is being sued for “human trafficking”.
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Israel’s peace plan: “Ethnic cleansing by stealth”.
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On America’s failure to win “hearts and minds” in Afghanistan.
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A Moroccan lawyer is suing a Salafi Islamist leader for issuing a fatwa that permits marrying off nine-year-old girls. The lawyer is charging Al Maghrawi of violating the laws of the country encouraging the sexual violation of children. He also charged him of defaming Islam with such fatwas.
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This is how We spread human rights: Taleban suspects “held in dog pen”.
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Human rights update from Afghanistan:
A family of four, including two children, have been killed in an overnight raid by international troops in Afghanistan, a police official and witnesses have said.
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US District Judge Richard J. Leon has urged expressed concern that “the public - and the detainees themselves - will be locked out of the courtroom when evidence in the case is scrutinized for the first time”.
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Iraq and the United States are still “far apart” on the issue of immunity for American troops.
Meanwhile, American officials are “worried” about Nouri al-Maliki.
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Unnamed US officials have rejected reports that up to 90 Afghan civilians may have died in a controversial airstrike on a village. The US puts the figure at five civilian deaths. This contradicts accounts of the incident by the UN and other independent Afghan human rights organisations.
Related: Hamid Karzai condemns civilian deaths.
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The UK government has been granted another week to consider its decision not to release documents related to the treatment of a British resident held in Guantanamo.
The Foreign Office argues disclosing the material will damage national security.
Related: MI5 criticised in role for torture.
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“Jurors wept and embraced” a former marine, Jose Luis Nazario Jr, after finding him not guilty guilty of all criminal charges, including voluntary manslaughter, in the killings of unarmed Iraqi detainees.
The case against the marine rested on the accounts of two of his former squad members, who were found in contempt of court for refusing to testify.
Jurist’s Paper Chase has a lot more.
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Given the recent news on civilian deaths in Afghanistan, this report makes interesting reading:
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A US judge has ordered that ExxonMobil must face a lawsuit launched by Indonesian villagers. The villagers, from Aceh, say the oil giant has contributed to human rights abuses committed by Indonesian military personnel.
(Via the WSJ Law Blog.)
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Human rights update from Afghanistan: The United States says an airstrike which may have killed over 80 civilians was “legitimate”.
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What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.
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A court in Saudi Arabia is “reported to be preparing to hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl who has been married off to a man in his 50s”.
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2000 demonstrate against ‘honour’ killings in Iran.
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The high court ruled that MI5 had participated in the “unlawful interrogation of a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay”.
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Hamid Karzai has condemned the deaths of civilians who were killed by “unilateral operations” carried out by US airstrikes. This isn’t the first time Karzai has publicly responded to civilians death from American airstikes. Last year Karzai told 60 Minutes:
The US have deny killing civilians, and even the White House has intervened to pass comment on the incident. The only problem is there is little reason to believe what the US has to say about civilian deaths from its operations.
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Alexandra Fawcett is a good example of a liberal who talks about ‘human rights’ as though they exist in a vacuum.
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How a ‘jihadist’ curtailed a president’s authority.
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Brave Warriors Of Afghanistan Update: The Taliban have killed three foreign female aid workers and their Afghan driver.
Meanwhile, here’s an update on human rights news from the Afghan front line: Four civilians were killed in a rocket attack by British troops in Afghanistan.
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Nailing Muslim hypocrisy:
Sharia, of course, is canonical law based on the teachings of the Quran and the traditions of Mohammed. I wasn’t aware that it advocated genital mutilation.
(Via an emailer.)
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Johann Hari discusses child brides in Yemen and the UK, and also has a post which is highly critical of Islamophobia Watch.
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According to ‘local reports’, Iran’s judiciary has suspended the punishment of death by stoning and has commuted the sentences of people scheduled to be executed.
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