Today’s update of human rights events around the world.
GAZA: UN to resume Gaza Aid
The UN is to resume delivering aid in Gaza after it said Hamas returned humanitarian supplies it had seized from UN warehouses last week. Al Jazeera
U.S.: Senator Seeks Bush-Era ‘Truth Commission’
A U.S. “truth commission” should investigate Bush administration policies including the promotion of war in Iraq, detainee treatment and wiretapping without a warrant, an influential senator proposed on Monday. Common Dreams
U.S.: D.C. Appeals Court to Rule on CACI and L-3 Complicity in Abu Ghraib Torture
Attorneys for torture victims abused in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere in Iraq asked the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to affirm a lower court ruling letting the lawsuit proceed to trial against CACI International Inc. and overturn as premature the summary judgment granted to L-3. Common Dreams
IRAN: Four Journalists Sentenced to Prison, Floggings
Four Years After Arrests, No Public Investigation of Abuse Allegations
The sentencing of four Tehran bloggers by Iran’s Judiciary Court on February 3, 2009, to prison terms, fines and flogging, despite the head of the judiciary’s admission that they had been coerced into confessing, violates their right to a fair trial, Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The four said shortly after their arrest in 2004 that they had been tortured during interrogation, but there has been no public investigation into these allegations despite a high-level promise to do so. Common Dreams
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