Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
Shortly after the protesters arrived at the barricaded “free speech zone” set up by police across the street from the hotel, they were subjected to a new police tactic: freezing. Simply put, the protesters were barricaded in on all sides by police and essentially held hostage for hours.
Via politeaparty.blogspot.com
Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
Agency used novel surveillance technique on alleged Mafioso: activating his cell phone’s microphone and then just listening. A CNET article by Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache, Staff Writers, CNET News.
Via news.cnet.com
Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
An Afghan woman jailed for adultery after being raped by a relative is going free — but only because she agreed to marry the man who assaulted her.
Via washingtonpost.com
Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
Bahrain’s Independent Commission of Inquiry has confirmed virtually every criticism of the regime that surfaced in the past ten month.
Via carnegieendowment.org
Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
The FBI has been illegally using its community outreach programs to secretly collect and store information about activities protected by the First Amendment for intelligence purposes, according to FBI documents released today by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Via aclu.org
Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
An amendment by Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire) to the current Defense Authorization Bill (SA 1068) now before Congress would roll back the 2009 Obama executive order against torture by re-establishing a secret “classified” set of interrogation techniques and then attaching them to the current “Army Field Manual” on human intelligence collection.
Via truth-out.org
Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
Al Jazeera and Qatar come under attack for HIV discrimination policy Section27, a South African watchdog group, has accused Al Jazeera and its host state Qatar of human rights abuses against people living with HIV.
Via dohanews.co
Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
As a group of elected members of Parliament (MP) from all the main parties represented at Westminster, we are outraged by the current position of the US Congress which, apparently, means that Guantanamo Bay prison will never be closed, and, of particular concern to us, that a British resident who was cleared for release more than two years ago, cannot return here.
Via truth-out.org
Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
Wikileaks has published a collection of confidential brochures and product presentations that companies use to market intrusive surveillance products to governments and law enforcement agencies.
Via arstechnica.com
Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
Internet freedom in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan is amongst the worst in the world and, although not nearly as bad, it is deteriorating rapidly in Kazakhstan, a group of human rights organisations have said.
Via telegraph.co.uk
