World Repression Newswire Archive

BIRTH CONTROL BY DECREE IN UZBEKISTAN

03-05-2005 12:58 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A family planning campaign that looks benign is marred by allegations of forced sterilisation on a wide scale.

By Malik Boboev, Galima Bukharbaeva and Yusuf Rasulov in Andijan and Tashkent.

Downing street and Whitehall blockaded by refugees holding a 'Die In'.

Today over 200 human rights campaigners (most of them Sudanese refugees) blockaded Downing Street and part of Whitehall to protest over government inaction over the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Many of the demonstraters carried the names of some of the estimated 300,000 people that have been murdered during the ethnic cleansing or have died as a result of it. 3,000 people are dying in the region every week, thats 52 9/11s every year!

The Police were taken completely by surprise by the action and had no choice but to let it go ahead. They were outnumbered by about 20-1. There were no arrests.

The international community could easily act to stop what is a totally preventable trajedy of biblical proportions. This would cost a fraction of the money spent murdering 100,000 civilians in Iraq. But there is no oil in Darfur is there?

Alabama-USA,attempts to ban gay authored books..

The state of Alabama,may be about the debate the banning
of books by gay authors.

Desperate Jack Straw drags Iraqi Prime Minister into Blackburn campaign

30-04-2005 08:52 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has enlisted the support of Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari in a desperate and controversial move to avoid defeat in his "safe" constituency of Blackburn, Lancashire.

KINDNESS OF STRANGERS FOR BURMESE REFUGEES

29-04-2005 09:54 | Repression | London | World

Attached please kindly find the human rights abuses towards Burmese refugees who were forcefully relocated in Thailand. First of all, they were emotionally and physically forced into exile by Burma. Thank your for your concern.

Rory Bremner backs Keys and Murray

Writing in today's Daily Mail, Rory Bremner said:

NWO: Police State Cyber Raids?

29-04-2005 07:34 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Organizers of a controversial pro civil rights group have once more experienced a concerted effort by as yet unidentified ‘cyber terrorists’.

ICOPA X1: International Conference on Penal Abolition

28-04-2005 01:34 | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

We will be linking with the ANZSOC criminology conference happening from 7-9th of February 2006 in Tasmania. They haven't finalised the program yet, but do plan to have four plenary sessions around the theme of Human Rights:

NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST

NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST - abuse of tenants continues

Why does the well paid newly appointed Chief Executive not take any action concerning all the very many complaints from tenants of the trust.

C4News gets Goldsmith's war advice.

27-04-2005 19:03 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Channel 4 News has obtained a copy of the Attorney General's 'Iraq war' advice (summary).

Turkish activists in court – supporters call for international solidarity

27-04-2005 05:28 | Repression | World

On 27 April, 46 men and women will go before the Turkish ‘special main criminal court’, charged with ‘terrorism’. They were arrested in 2004 while demonstrating against proposed new laws to impose stringent restrictions on the living conditions of Turkey’s political prisoners.

State of the Prison System

27-04-2005 01:32 | Anti-racism | Repression | London | World

The city's first jail was a 7-by 5-foot cage built in 1693 for the detention of miscreants. Criminals convicted of minor offenses were sentenced to banishment, branding and public whipping. Charges such as counterfeiting, treason, spying, desertion from the Army, burglary, robbery, piracy, rape, sodomy and murder were considered capital offenses, and convicts were subject to execution by hanging.

Landless Movement against Green Desert needs support

26-04-2005 06:38 | Ecology | Repression | Social Struggles | World

letter from a friend travelling in South America; concerning a settlement of the Movimento Sem Terra (MST, landless workers' movement) in Brasil that is fighting the growing ecological menace of eucalytpus monoculture as part of their own struggle for land and justice. We all need to know about this situation, and they all need our support. thanks.

Triumph of Spirit: Israeli Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu April 2005

25-04-2005 21:08 | Repression | World

It is one year since Israeli Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was released from a cruel and barbarous imprisonment into a 1948 British Mandate that keeps him further imprisoned by a state that does not want him but does not wish for him to go free or live free.

OzAsIs Forum under attack: 40 hours old!

25-04-2005 04:24 | Globalisation | Indymedia | Repression | World

Monday, 25 April 2005
OzAsIs Forum under attack: 40 Hours old.

Author – Oz.unslaver.com

Less than 40 hours after informing the Federal and Queensland State Polictians of Australia, an Australia Free Speech Forum was hacked and defaced before the astonished eyes of the onlooking readership. The intensive focus of the www.Oz.Unslaver.com site is the Beattie Government in power in Queensland and more specifically, Mike Renolds (Minister for Child Safety), Member for Townsville.

President Bush in the Netherlands: Censorship and curtailment of freedom of spee

24-04-2005 07:17 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

George Bush will visit the province of Limburg in the Netherlands to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Europe’s liberation on 8th of May. He will also attend several bilateral talks in the region around Maastricht on May 7th. Local activist groups and students are planning demonstrations to receive Bush in Maastricht. However, a website created to disseminate information about these protests has been censored and taken off air.

PETER MANDELSON

PETER MANDELSON

NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST - MISMANAGEMENT

Kate Davies is the Chief Executive of the Notting Hill Housing Trust. What are her achievements?

Another Attack on Zanon Occupied Factory

For the second time in a month, right-wing hit squads have attacked the wife of a worker at the Zanon occupied factory in Neuquen, Argentina. The original attack is detailed at: