Year: 2007

France riots enter second night

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From Al-Jazeera…

A manslaughter inquiry has been ordered into the deaths of two teenagers which sparked riots in a Paris suburb.
A judge ordered the inquiry on Monday, after six hours of violence that subsided around midnight on Sunday.
A second night of fighting ignited late on Monday as about 160 police fired tear gas and rubber bullets during running battles with rioters.
A witness said the police, in riot gear and paint guns to identify rioters, were pelted with stones and large fire-crackers.
Dozens of youths clashed with police on Sunday after a 15- and a 16-year-old teenager were killed in a traffic accident with a police car.

11 days passed without ordering investigation into the torture of imprisoned blogger

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I received the following statement from imprisoned Alexandrian blogger Kareem Amer’s lawyers:

Eleven days passed since a communiqué was sent to the Prosecutor-General about the torturing of blogger Karim Amer in Borg Alarab prison without ordering an investigation, a matter that raises concerns and doubts about justice and leaves the door open for impunity from punishment in Egypt, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said today.
This press release came after the lawyers of the Arabic Network paid Karim a visit in Borg Alarab prison as they found out that there was no investigation started regarding their communique which was sent to the Prosecutor-General on November 14, they also noticed the healing of the torture related-injuries yet the broken teeth Karim lost demonstrates full-blown evidence of the torture he went through.
The Arabic Network’s lawyers examined by themselves the abrasions on Karim’s neck and his” broken teeth”, they also saw one of the police elements involved in torturing Karim; He was strolling down happily with a smirk on his face implying a message that” Torture is our trade, the prosecutor-general protects us and Karim will stay under our teeth.”