Tag: murder

Police kills Bedouin teenager

Posted on By 3arabawy

No details yet, but Al-Jazeera is reporting that an Egyptian boy, who’s among the Bedouin demonstrators on the borders, was killed by Mubarak’s police troops in Sinai.

Argentina revokes Dirty War generals’ pardon

Posted on By 3arabawy

Good news:

A court in Argentina has overturned a 1990 pardon given to two former military dictators saying they must continue to serve life sentences for human rights abuses.
Jorge Videla, a former president, and Eduardo Massera, a navy chief, were leaders of the junta that waged a “dirty war” against political opponents in the late 1970s and early 80s.
Official reports say around 9,000 people were killed, although human rights groups put the death toll closer to 30,000.
On Wednesday the Argentine federal criminal court declared the 1990 amnesties given to the two men were unconstitutional.

Via Al-Jazeera.