Western MSM accuse Israel of deliberately killing Lebanese journalist

Israeli tank fire killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah and injured six other international #journalists in a double strike in southern #Lebanon on October 13, forensic analysis by #CNN suggests, confirming reports by two news organizations and two human rights groups.

On Thursday, #Reuters, AFP, #Amnesty Int’l & Human Rights Watch released investigations into the circumstances of the deadly strike. #AFP & #HRW claimed it was a “deliberate,” targeted attack.

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📝 It's unfortunate these MSM news outlets didn't bother to include the two Al-Mayadeen journalists who were killed in a drone strike in an open area.

Video of her last broadcast can be seen on telegram

#Israel #Politics #WarCrime #Media #StopIsrael

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The last broadcast by Farah and Rabih before they were murdered in an Israeli drone attack. At least 15 Lebanese civilians have been killed so far since Oct ⁠⁠13, including four today.

Pétition
Israël/Gaza : cessez-le-feu immédiat pour protéger les civil·es !

https://www.amnesty.fr/conflits-armes-et-populations/petitions/israelgaza-cessez-le-feu-immediat-pour-proteger-les-civiles

#pétition #gaza #amnestyinternational #amnesty

#UK

#amnesty

#controversy

(https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/13/uk-parliament-adopts-controversial-northern-ireland-legacy-bill)

UK Parliament adopts controversial Northern Ireland ‘legacy’ bill

The new law grants immunity to fighters involved in the 30 years of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.

#Amnesty Deutschland: "Präventivgewahrsam für Klimaschützer*innen ist klarer Verstoß gegen die Menschenrechte"
https://www.amnesty.de/allgemein/pressemitteilung/deutschland-klimaschuetzerinnen-praeventivgewahrsam-verstoss-menschenrechte
#LetzteGeneration

Amnesty International: Javad Rouhi's death is suspicious and a "fact-finding committee" should be formed

Amnesty International: Javad Rouhi's death is suspicious and a "fact-finding committee" should be formed

In response to the "suspicious death" of Javad Rouhi in prison, Amnesty International issued a statement on Thursday calling for an "investigation" and an "independent investigation" into the cause of the death of this political prisoner.

In the statement of the 8th of Shahrivar 1402 of Amnesty International, the authorities of the Islamic Republic have been accused of victimizing Javad Rouhi with a series of "international crimes", including "enforced disappearance", "individual" and "torture", in order to force him to "confess". be

This organization issued a statement while condemning the "suspicious death" of this "political prisoner" in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and considered it to be a "hateful violation of the right to life in the Islamic Republic of Iran".

Not long ago, Amnesty International had accused the IRGC operatives of putting Javad Rouhi in solitary confinement under all kinds of physical and mental torture, including whipping, threats of rape, and mock execution.

In a previous statement by Amnesty International, Javad Rouhi's lawyer emphasized in the court that the video does not prove that he was involved in inciting or participating in the massive fire and that his "confessions" were obtained under pressure and coercion, and the issuing of death sentences for Such crimes clearly violate the "right to life" based on "international laws".

سازمان عفو بین‌الملل: مرگ جواد روحی، مشکوک است و باید «کمیته حقیقت‌یاب» تشکیل شود

سازمان عفو بین‌الملل: مرگ جواد روحی، مشکوک است و باید «کمیته حقیقت‌یاب» تشکیل شود

در واکنش به «مرگ مشکوک» جواد روحی در زندان، سازمان عفو بین‌الملل پنج‌شنبه با انتشار بیانیه‌ای خواستار برگزاری «تحقیق و تفحص» و انجام «تحقیقات مستقل» درباره علت مرگ این زندانی سیاسی شد.

در بیانیه هشتم شهریور ۱۴۰۲ سازمان عفو بین‌الملل، مقام‌های جمهوری اسلامی متهم شده‌‌اند که جواد روحی را با مجموعه‌ای از «جرایم بین‌المللی»، از جمله «ناپدید‌سازی قهری»، «انفرادی» و «شکنجه»، قربانی کرده‌اند تا او وادار به «اعتراف اجباری» شود.

این سازمان با انتشار بیانیه‌ای ضمن محکومیت «مرگ مشکوک» این «زندانی سیاسی» دربند جمهوری اسلامی، آن‌ را نشان‌گر «نقض نفرت‌انگیز حق زندگی در نظام جمهوری اسلامی» دانست.

چندی‌پیش سازمان عفو بین‌الملل «عوامل سپاه پاسداران» را متهم کرده بود که جواد روحی را در سلول‌های انفرادی زیر انواع شکنجه‌های جسمی و روحی، از جمله شلاق، تهدید به تجاوز و اعدام ساختگی قرار داده‌ بودند.

در بیانیه قبلی سازمان عفو بین‌الملل، وکیل جواد روحی در دادگاه تاکید کرده بود که این ویدئو ثابت نمی‌کند که او در تحریک یا مشارکت در آتش‌سوزی گسترده دست داشته و «اعترافات» او تحت فشار و با اجبار به دست آمده است و صدور احکام اعدام برای چنین جرایمی، آشکارا «حق حیات» را بر اساس «قوانین بین‌المللی» نقض می‌کند.

#iran #Amnesty #Humanrights #Politics #torture #iri #IranProtests

#LBD #Armes #manifestations
#Amnesty lance une campagne internationale pour un contrôle des armes "à létalité réduite" en manifestation.

Migration: Europe’s Complicity in Massive Human Rights Violations

These human tragedies are playing out at Europe's land and sea borders on a daily basis. The first quarter of this year marked the deadliest in the central #Mediterranean in six years, say humanitarian organisations in a joint statement.

Make no mistake: European States are complicit in the death of thousands and thousands of human beings on their shores, land borders and at home. The massive drowning of hundreds of migrants close to Greece shores on 14 June is just a new chapter in Europe’s long series of continued violations of all international human rights laws.

So far, 10 worldwide known humanitarian organisations have strongly reacted, in a joint denunciation statement, asking the European Union (EU) to ‘end rights violations at Europe’s borders.’

In their Joint NGO statement: The EU must not be complicit, launched on 16 June, organisations like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, OXFAM and Save the Children, among others, warned that once again, dozens of lives have been lost at Europe’s borders “due to the EU’s failure to allow people seeking protection to reach Europe safely.”

Hundreds are missing and presumed dead after the latest tragedy close to the Greek coast, with reports that amongst the dead are many women and children who were held below the deck of this overcrowded fishing vessel

#Migration #Europe #Greece #OXAM #EU #HumanRights #Inhumanity #HRW #Amnesty #NGO #Violation #Africa #Asia #DeathAtSea

https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/06/migration-europes-complicity-massive-human-rights-violations/

Migration: Europe's Complicity in Massive Human Rights Violations

Make no mistake: European States are complicit in the death of thousands and thousands of human beings on their shores, land borders and at home. The massive drowning of hundreds of migrants close to Greece shores on 14 June is just a new chapter...

Golrokh Ebrahimi, one of the brave Iranian women fighting for social justice and equality, has denied the proposal from the government for a retrial and possibility to receive Amnesty.

Ms. Ebrahimi is one of the strong activists inside Iran who has been fighting for years against the gender apartheid in the country and for respect of basic human rights of all citizens.

She has received several prizes from European women and human rights activists, but the CIA backed opposition "leaders" in US and UK do not promote her case as much since she had openly distanced herself from their actions and calling Reza Pahlavi, the desperate son of former shah of Iran, as the future leader of Iran.
#GolrokhEbrahimi #Politics #HumanRights #WomenRights #PoliticalPrisoner #Activism #IranProtests #GenderApartheid #Iran #Prison #Amnesty
گلرخ ایرایی، فعال حقوق بشر و زندانی سیاسی محبوس در بند زنان زندان اوین روز یکشنبه ۲۸ خرداد از شرکت در دادگاه تجدیدنظر و امضای برگه تعهد و درخواست عفو امتناع کرد.

یک منبع نزدیک به خانواده ایرایی گفت: «گلرخ ایرایی صبح روز یکشنبه به دفتر اعزام احضار و به او گفتند باید برای شرکت در جلسه دادگاه به شعبه ۳۶ دادگاه تجدیدنظر استان تهران اعزام شود اما گلرخ با اعلام اینکه حکم صادره علیه خود و روند دادرسی را قبول ندارد از رفتن به دادگاه امتناع کرد».

#گلرخابراهیمی
#زندانیسیاسیآزادباید_گردد

Amnesty prangert Taliban-Verbrechen an | DW | 26.05.2023

Die Unterjochung von Frauen in Afghanistan stellt nach Ansicht von Amnesty International ein Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit dar. Dafür sollten sich die Taliban verantworten müssen, betont die Organisation.#Afghanistan #Menschenrechte #Frauenrechte #Repression #Taliban #Amnesty #InternationaleJuristenkommission #ICJ
Amnesty prangert Taliban-Verbrechen an | DW | 26.05.2023

Amnesty prangert Taliban-Verbrechen an | DW | 26.05.2023

Die Unterjochung von Frauen in Afghanistan stellt nach Ansicht von Amnesty International ein Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit dar. Dafür sollten sich die Taliban verantworten müssen, betont die Organisation.

Twenty-three years ago this week, the #Khiam detention center in the South of Lebanon was liberated from Israeli occupation.

The facility was used by Israeli occupation forces until they withdrew from Lebanon in 2000. Human rights organizations ranging from #Amnesty International to #HumanRightsWatch reported the use of #torture and other serious human rights abuses at the facility.

World-renowned British journalist Robert Fisk reported that "the sadists of Khiam used to electrocute the penises of their prisoners and throw water over their bodies before plunging electrodes into their chests, and kept them in pitch-black, solitary confinement for months. For many years, the Israelis even banned the #RedCross from visiting their foul prison. All the torturers fled across the border into Israel when the Israeli army retreated under fire from #Lebanon...”

#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics

De reputatie van Amnesty International staat op het spel door Oekraïne-fout

NRC

Oekraïense leger beschuldigd - Juist voor Amnesty, die regeringen geregeld oproept tot transparantie, is het verzwijgen van kritiek op het eigen handelen uiterst pijnlijk. (...)

De Nederlandse tak van de wereldwijde mensenrechtenorganisatie neemt afstand van het internationale bestuur in Londen. (...)

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Protest in 2022 in Sydney tegen Amnesty, dat Oekraïne beschuldigde van schending van het oorlogsrecht. Foto Richard Milnes/Shutterstock.

De reden voor de huidige onvrede over de leiding in Londen is een onthulling in The New York Times van 28 april. Daaruit blijkt dat het bestuur een kritisch onderzoek over een omstreden publicatie van Amnesty geheim wilde houden. Voor een organisatie die regeringen oproept tot transparantie en bestuurlijke integriteit is de kwestie extra pijnlijk.

De zaak begon met een uitgebreid persbericht van 4 augustus 2022. In vijf pagina’s claimde Amnesty dat het Oekraïense leger de eigen burgers onnodig in gevaar brengt door scholen en ziekenhuizen te gebruiken als militaire bases, en door aanvallen op het Russische leger te lanceren vanuit locaties waar veel burgers wonen. Civiele gebouwen worden daardoor militaire doelen. (...)

Er was geen onderliggend onderzoek, alleen het persbericht. De Oekraïense afdeling van Amnesty was niet geraadpleegd, het wederhoor bij de Oekraïense regering was zeer beperkt. (...)

Een week later kondigde Amnesty een onderzoek door onafhankelijke experts aan.

Amnesty Nederland vroeg sindsdien meerdere keren aan het bestuur in Londen om dit onderzoek te delen met de nationale afdelingen. Dat gebeurde niet. (...)

En staat Amnesty nog steeds achter het persbericht? Het antwoord is ontwijkend: „We werken er aan om de lessen uit het rapport van de experts in onze toekomstige werkwijze te integreren.”

Het onderzoek van vijf experts op het gebied van humanitair oorlogsrecht laat weinig heel van Amnesty’s beschuldigingen. (...)

De Oekraïne-kwestie is de tweede zaak in korte tijd waarmee Amnesty het Kremlin in de kaart speelt. In februari 2021 ontnam Amnesty oppositiepoliticus Aleksej Navalny de status van gewetensgevangene omdat hij ooit geweld zou hebben gepropageerd. In mei 2021 werd dat besluit teruggedraaid, met excuses aan Navalny. Anders dan in die zaak zijn er bij het persbericht over het Oekraïense leger geen aanwijzingen dat Russische propaganda een rol heeft gespeeld. Een ander verschil is dat de Navalny-fout snel werd hersteld, terwijl de Oekraïne-misser is verhuld en daardoor groter wordt.

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> Zie ook: Ik moet mijn lidmaatschap van Amnesty opzeggen

> Zie ook: ‘Je kunt niet zomaar zeggen dat een Oekraïense tank te dicht bij een school staat’ (NRC)

Tags: #nederlands #amnesty #oekraine #rusland #burgerdoden #oorlogsrecht #extern_onderzoek #navalny

De reputatie van Amnesty International staat op het spel door Oekraïne-fout

Oekraïense leger beschuldigd: Juist voor Amnesty, die regeringen geregeld oproept tot transparantie, is het verzwijgen van kritiek op het eigen handelen uiterst pijnlijk.

Ik moet mijn lidmaatschap van Amnesty opzeggen

Stevo Akkerman (Trouw)

Afgelopen augustus publiceerde Amnesty International een even explosieve als twijfelachtige verklaring waarin Oekraïne ervan werd beschuldigd de eigen burgers in gevaar te brengen. Het Oekraïense leger zou – in strijd met het oorlogsrecht – opereren vanuit civiele locaties, waaronder bewoond gebied, scholen en ziekenhuizen. Daardoor werden die locaties doelwit van Russische aanvallen, met dodelijke slachtoffers als gevolg. (...)

Amnesty kreeg van alle kanten kritiek, behalve van Moskou, en na aanvankelijk de poot stijf te hebben gehouden beloofde de organisatie een extern onderzoek te laten instellen. (...)

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Stevo Akkerman

Direct ging ik op zoek naar de uitkomst van het externe onderzoek, vreemd dat ik dat gemist had. Maar ik vond niets, noch bij Amnesty zelf, noch elders. (...) Het was de New York Times die helderheid bracht: er was een rapport, het was zeer kritisch op Amnesty en het was onder het tapijt geschoven. (...)

Zulk gedrag verwacht je van bedrijven die met hun rug naar de samenleving staan, en dan nog is het kortzichtig en werkt het averechts. Van een mensenrechtenorganisatie verwacht je openheid, ook als het pijnlijk is. En dat is het: de onderzoekers, verbonden aan vijf verschillende universiteiten, oordelen dat Amnesty’s aanklacht op cruciale punten ‘onvoldoende gegrond’ was. (...)

Dat Amnesty er voor koos – ondanks fel protest van haar eigen Oekraïense afdeling – te spreken over een ‘patroon’ van overtredingen door het Oekraïense leger, wekte volgens de onderzoekers onbedoeld de suggestie dat Oekraïne verantwoordelijk was voor de eigen burgerdoden, in plaats van de Russen, die opzettelijk burgerdoelen onder vuur namen. En nog steeds nemen.

Wat nu? Ik moet mijn lidmaatschap opzeggen, het is niet anders. Tenzij Amnesty alsnog schoon schip maakt.

[Hele artikel]((https://www.trouw.nl/opinie/ik-moet-mijn-lidmaatschap-van-amnesty-opzeggen~b27daf6f/))

Tags: #nederlands #amnesty #oekraine #rusland #burgerdoden #oorlogsrecht #extern_onderzoek

Ik moet mijn lidmaatschap van Amnesty opzeggen

Afgelopen augustus publiceerde Amnesty International een even explosieve als twijfelachtige verklaring waarin Oekraïne ervan werd beschuldigd de ei...

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amnesty-kritisiert-westliche-doppelmoral-101.html
#Amnesty

Amnesty International wirft Westen Doppelmoral vor

Härte gegen Moskau, Milde bei Freunden: Amnesty International hat den westlichen Ländern Doppelmoral im Umgang mit Menschenrechtsverletzungen vorgeworfen. Kritik übt die Organisation auch an Deutschland.

Kubas frustrierte Jugend

Mangel im Paradies

Von Shoko Bethke

Hinter der karibischen Postkartenkulisse verbirgt sich eine kaputte Wirtschaft und eine restriktive Regierung. Junge Menschen wandern aus.

Schwerpunkt: Fidel Castro
Schwerpunkt: Lesestück Recherche und Reportage

#taz #tageszeitung #Kuba #Kommunismus #Embargo #Che #Guevara #Lebensqualität #Landflucht #Asyl #USA #Amnesty #International #Kunstfreiheit #Alltag #Diktatur

Kubas frustrierte Jugend: Mangel im Paradies

Hinter der karibischen Postkartenkulisse verbirgt sich eine kaputte Wirtschaft und eine restriktive Regierung. Junge Menschen wandern aus.

JaneGoudal has asked Khamenei to release the group of environmentalists who are awaiting a trial in ziran.

In a letter to Iran's supreme leader, she asked him to show merci and extend the anmesty given to many prisoners to include the group who's actions exposed the corruption and criminal organization inside the government agencies responsible for taking care of the environment.

#Iran #JaneGoudal #Environmentalists #Amnesty #Activism #Khamenei #Corruption

Prozess gegen Flüchtlingshelfer

Warten auf ein freies Leben

Von Christian Jakob

Wer vor der griechischen Küste Menschenleben rettet, muss mit Anklagen und Gefängnis rechnen. So wie Rettungstaucher Sean Binder.

Schwerpunkt: Flucht

#taz #tageszeitung #Lesbos #Seenotrettung #Amnesty #International #Human #Rights #Watch

Prozess gegen Flüchtlingshelfer: Warten auf ein freies Leben

Wer vor der griechischen Küste Menschenleben rettet, muss mit Anklagen und Gefängnis rechnen. So wie Rettungstaucher Sean Binder.

#EU says it’s anti-Semitic to call #Israel an #apartheid state

what the actual fuck.....

EU foreign #policy chief Josep Borrell has rejected #Amnesty International’s finding that Israel perpetrates the crime of apartheid. Euc/ROPI

It is anti-Semitic to say Israel perpetrates the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people, according to the European Union.

That would mean that major rights groups including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Israel’s B’Tselem – which is funded by the EU – are guilty of anti-Jewish bigotry, according to Brussels.

The EU’s extraordinary claim came in response to a question from several pro-Israel members of the European Parliament directed towards the EU’s executive body, the European Commission.

The lawmakers stated that Amnesty’s report last February “alleges that apartheid was inherent in the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 and has been built on and maintained by successive Israeli governments.”

The lawmakers asked if EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell also views Israel as an “apartheid state.”

They also wanted to know if Borrell considers Amnesty’s report to be “anti-Semitic” under the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, “given that it claims that the existence of the State of Israel is a racist endeavor (i.e. an apartheid state).”

#Palestine #Occupation #Hypocrisy #WTF

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/eu-says-its-anti-semitic-call-israel-apartheid-state

EU says it's anti-Semitic to call Israel an apartheid state

Foreign policy chief Josep Borrell dismisses Amnesty International's findings.

#Amnesty #Iran: This morning’s execution of Iranian-British national #AlirezaAkbari, a former Iranian official, by Iran's authorities again displays their abhorrent assault on the right to life. The use of the #DeathPenalty is appalling under all circumstances.

In the case of Alireza Akbari it is particularly horrific given the violations he revealed he was subjected to in prison, including #torture & other ill-treatment through being forcibly administered chemical substances & being held in prolonged solitary confinement which caused him great distress, and forced to make recorded “confessions” repeatedly, w/these recordings later played in court during his trial.

Alireza Akbari was convicted and sentenced to death for “spreading corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel arz), which @amnesty has consistently held fails to meet requirements for clarity and precision needed in criminal law and breaches the principle of legality and legal certainty.
The #UK government must fully investigate Alireza Akbari’s allegations of torture and other ill-treatment, and pursue all avenues to hold the Iranian authorities to account, including by exercising universal jurisdiction to criminally investigate all officials reasonably suspected of involvement in crimes under international law and issue arrest warrants where there is sufficient admissible evidence.

#Politics #HumanRights

Benjamin Fulford Report: “Rules based world order” ends with Rothschilds trying to offer $ trillions in exchange for amnesty - December 26, 2022

https://prepareforchange.net/2022/12/29/benjamin-fulford-report-rules-based-world-order-ends-with-rothschilds-trying-to-offer-trillions-in-exchange-for-amnesty-december-26-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=benjamin-fulford-report-rules-based-world-order-ends-with-rothschilds-trying-to-offer-trillions-in-exchange-for-amnesty-december-26-2022

#Rothschilds #Trillions #Exchange #Amnesty

Benjamin Fulford Report: “Rules based world order” ends with Rothschilds trying to offer $ trillions in exchange for amnesty - December 26, 2022 - Prepare For Change

The “EVENT” is the moment of the “Compression Breakthrough” on earth. COBRA guides us to prepare for change, for the Event and disclosure.

Amnesty Ireland ! Peaceful protesters like #VahidAfkari are arbitrarily detained in #Iran for daring to dream for a better future for their country.

This is completely unjust.

Join us in demanding Vahid’s release. Sign the #petition today.

#IranProtest #HumanRights #Politics #Amnesty
https://www.amnesty.ie/wfr-vahid-afkari/