Derechos Humanos / Human Rights

Erdogan promotes "Travesty International" in his own country

The detention of human-rights activists on terrorism charges is hard for other countries to ignore

 Istanbul, July 14.─ It was the sort of intervention on behalf of a persecuted opposition politician that Amnesty International carries out hundreds of times a year. In 1998, after Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then the mayor of Istanbul, was jailed for a speech in which he read out a religiously themed poem, the human-rights group termed him a “prisoner of conscience” and wrote to the government demanding his release. Nineteen years later, Mr Erdogan, now Turkey’s president, presides over an increasingly authoritarian regime. And his police force has arrested Amnesty International’s own staff along with other human-rights activists. So it was to Mr Erdogan that the group found itself writing last week to demand the release of detainees. He shows little sign of softening.

More than 50,000 people have been jailed in the purges that followed the attempted coup in Turkey on July 15th last year. But the latest arrests nevertheless shocked human-rights advocates, if only because their colleagues were the targets.

Los que han huido de zonas bajo control yihadista relatan las terribles condiciones en el califato

Mosul, Jul.14.─ “Nos fuimos por los bombardeos y porque ya no teníamos ni agua ni comida”, cuenta Shabba Mohamed Salah, que escapó del casco antiguo de Mosul el pasado domingo, en el centro de tránsito de Hamam al Alil, 30 kilómetros más al sur. Ella, su nuera y sus nietos se hallan entre los últimos civiles en abandonar la capital iraquí del califato. Pero a medida que se reducían las llegadas desde esa ciudad, los campamentos instalados para acoger a quienes huyen de los combates han empezado a recibir un incipiente flujo procedente de Hawija, uno de los últimos feudos del Estado Islámico (ISIS) en Irak y la previsible próxima batalla para las fuerzas gubernamentales.

Una pequeña clínica establecida por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) recibe a los desplazados y les ofrece asistencia médica. Luego, el personal del Norwegian Relief Committee (NRC), la ONG que gestiona el centro y uno de los campamentos adyacentes (el otro lo lleva el Gobierno iraquí directamente), facilita agua, comida y colchonetas a los recién llegados, a quienes se acomoda en grandes carpas colectivas hasta que se resuelve su destino.

The colonization of Tibet continues inexorably under China's Communist Party leaders seeking to completely erradicate all vestiges of its history, religion and culture and with the clear purpose of transforming the demographics of the country and make its people disappear as a nation.

This strategy was already envisioned by former Communist Party Secretary Chen Kuiyuan when he blatantly ordered to: "Erradicate Tibetan Buddhism and culture from the face of the Earth, so that no memory of them will be left in the minds of coming generations of Tibetans, except as museum pieces."

This is not just talk. The Chinese government is acting with impunity to crush relgious freedom in Tibet, destroy the Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, and effectively wipe Tibet and Tibetans off the map, so future generations will never know they existed.

So far, more than 6.200 monasteries has been destroyed or damaged in Tibet, leaving less that 100 standing. Chinese Communist Party officials view Tibetan Buddhism as a major obstacle to controlling Tibetan's lives and they constantly target monks and nuns.

Cuba Archive documented 21 cases of death or disappearance in 2016 attributed to the Cuban political process, however, many more cases were reported for which sufficient information was unavailable and many more cases are expected in prisons but could not be added to the database for lack of precise information.

Two prisoners died who were deprived of their freedom for “pre-criminal dangerousness,” an aberration in Cuba’s Penal Code that criminalizes the propensity to commit an offense against the social order, as subjectively determined by state authorities. Both succumbed to reported health ailments without timely or adequate medical care.

Documented deaths and disappearances attributed to the Raúl Castro regime: 7/31/2006 and until 12/31/2016

Since Raúl Castro assumed supreme command of Cuba on July 31, 2006, Cuba Archive has documented 264 deaths and disappearances attributed to the Cuban state.