Year: 2006

Emergency State Security court confirms death sentence for 3 Taba bombings defendants

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The Ismailia Emergency State Security court has confirmed today the death sentence handed down to three Taba bombings suspects.

UPDATE: I still don’t have the details of the verdicts, but there were no acquittals. The three defendants’ execution sentences, whose papers were referred to the Mufti last September for approval, were confirmed today. All the rest of the defendants received harsh prison sentences.
Here are photos of today’s trial, by Nasser Nouri.

UPDATE: Here’s a report from Al-Jazeera.

UPDATE: Elijah blogs about the Kangaroo court.

CIA abuses: EU report condemns European complicity

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From Human Rights Watch:

CIA Abuses: EU Report Condemns European Complicity
Report Stresses Further Need to Investigate Secret Detention and Rendition to Torture
(New York, November 29, 2006) – A new report by the European Parliament’s Temporary Committee on illegal CIA activity in Europe is a powerful indictment of European governments’ complicity in CIA abuses, Human Rights Watch said today.
“The report shows how European governments acted as the willing facilitators of CIA abuses such as secret detention and rendition to torture,” said Joanne Mariner, terrorism and counterterrorism director at Human Rights Watch. “European governments must now investigate these abuses fully and take steps to ensure that they do not happen again.”