Human Rights: August 2004 Archives

By David Usborne in New York
21 August 2004

PROUT Editor's note: The article below reflects the horrendous erosion of fundamental freedoms which have taken place in the US since Bush came to power. It is clear proof that the US government has become a fascist police state. However, it is taking a long time for the average Americans to understand what has happened to their country.

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The right of journalists in the United States to withhold the identity of their sources has come under unprecedented assault, with reporters from several of the country's most prestigious news organisations now under threat of jail and punitive fines from judges and the Justice Department.

THE THIRST OF BLOOD IS TO BE PERMANENTLY ELEMINATED

“When a large number of people who may or may not be criminals are murdered at the same time, it is called gan'ahanana. Even if a large number of criminals are murdered at the same time this term is used because it is very difficult to theoretically judge who is a criminal and who is not. Sometimes innocent people may be subjected to severe punishment because wrong information appeared in the documents and records concerned with their trials. At other times judges may deliver incorrect judgements, and in fact there are numerous cases where judges have made mistakes. In such circumstances even innocent people may be given capital punishment. Then again, innocent people or those who have committed minor crimes are sometimes deliberately given capital punishment because of malicious judgements. Such punishments can never be supported.

RIGHTS-INDIA:

Ranjit Devraj

NEW DELHI, Aug 9 (IPS) - India's Supreme Court has indicated its determination to ensure that victims of rape and murder in the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in western Gujarat state ruled by the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) get justice.

03 August 2004 07:23

Sudan's armed forces on Monday described the United Nations resolution on Darfur as "a declaration of war" and warned that any foreign intervention in the region would be fought "on land, sea and air".

The armed forces spokesperson, General Muhammad Bashir Suleiman, raised tensions by speaking of a jihad against the "enemies of Sudan".

"The Security Council resolution about the Darfur issue is a declaration of war on Sudan and its people," he told the official Al-Anbaa newspaper.