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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (618)	7/20/2002 11:37:39 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 3959

1,700 Palestinian detainees-2 "Administrative detention is a blatant violation of human rights. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights stipulates that 'no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention'. Pursuant to the Fourth Geneva Convention, this measure may not be used as a means of punishment and must only serve as an exceptional measure taken for 'imperative reasons of security'. Moreover, persons must be imprisoned 'within the frontiers of the occupied country itself,' and during detention the Occupying Power must 'ensure support of [the person] and his dependents.' In addition, according to humanitarian principles governing administrative detention, those detained without charge or trial are to receive greater privileges than ordinary prisoners. It is highly questionable whether 'imperative reasons of security' demand that persons be detained without charge, trial, or the right to have their detention adequately reviewed by an impartial body. Administrative detention sentencing is based on Paragraphs A and B of Article 87 of Military Order number 378 of 1970. Paragraph A states that the military commander may, 'for security and public safety reasons, hold a person in custody upon an order signed by him'. However, 'the period of custody shall not exceed six months [later changed to 1 year].' Paragraph B of the same article stipulates: 'If a military commander of a region has a base to believe that on the eve of expiration of the order issued in compliance with Paragraph A, that for security and public safety reasons that require remanding the detained person in custody, he may extend the original order to a period not exceeding six months. Each order of extensions shall be considered an original order.' Israel's treatment of administrative detainees, including the location and conditions of their detention, contravenes not only international human rights standards but also the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention. For many years, Israel has abused the system of administrative detention using it to punish without charge or trial those it believes have acted against its interests, rather than as an extraordinary and selectively used preventative measure. Existing safeguards fail to prevent violations of the detainees' fundamental human rights, including the right to defense, the right to a fair and public hearing, the right to call and examine witnesses and the presumption of innocence. The use of secret evidence, coupled with arbitrary procedures, leaves those detained without charge or trial with no effective legal safeguards. Under these circumstances, administrative detention is prohibited by international law. The practice of administrative detention violates fundamental human rights. LAW insists on the right to a trial in which international standards for fair trial are upheld for all political detainees. In view of the above, LAW is calling for an end to the practice. LAW calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all administrative

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (618)	7/20/2002 11:40:59 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 3959

[The following is the translation of yesterday's Gush Shalom press release.] GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - gush-shalom.org Gush Shalom: Deportation of suicide bombers' family members is illegal, immoral and will increase the hatred July 19, 2002 The idea of deporting the family members of suicide bombers is in contradiction to the basic principle of all judicial systems - that a person may not be punished for the acts of somebody else. Among other sources, this basic principle was introduced into world culture by the Bible, where it is often and forcefully expressed. The state of Israel now seems ready to discard that principle, bending the Israeli legal code in order to violate International law. The inability, or unwillingness on the side of our politicians to see suicide bombings for what they are: a result of a too-long-dragged-on occupation leads to Israel being branded as a barbaric country which tramples upon basic norms of behaviour. Implementation of this measure can further fan the flames of hatred. * * *

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (618)	7/20/2002 5:01:51 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3959

Chinu, do you think Christians in the Middle East are basically finished? (they certainly do not have IDF to protect them) Looks like International Community does not give a hoot either wlo-usa.org Lebanese Christians: Perhaps the most dramatic plight today, is the one of the most sophisticated Christian community in the Middle East. Reverend Simon Essef, a Maronite priest in exile in Montreal, and spiritual mentor of the World Lebanese Organization (WLO) in Canada declared in a speech delivered in the Maronite Church in Chicago: "the Christians of Lebanon are of all denominations. They represent the Christian faith in all of its manifestations. But our people has another characteristic. We are the descendants of the oldest Christians on Earth, after the disciples. And we are the descendants of a Christian nation, which despite the fury of the Arab Islamic conquest, remained Christians and resisted in our mountains for 13 centuries." Essef said "that's why we are paying the price of belonging to a religion and a civilization. We have been resisting the tide of Arabization and Islamization for more than a thousand years. And now, the Islamists are waging a campaign of political, demographic, legal, military, and economic suppression against our communities." Essef revealed that 300 Lebanese Christians were arrested by Syrian intelligence and transfered to Damascus and Palmyra detention centers. "Like the Nazis, the Baathists of Hafez Assad are torturing these young men and women, many died, others became insane. In Jezzine, the last Christian enclave of Lebanon and the Middle East which is not under Arab Islamic rule, children and elderly are assassinated by the terrorist organization Hizbollah and by Beirut's security services. We ask the world to come to our rescue. Our Christian nation is dying. And if the Christians of Lebanon vanish, the Christians of the Middle East will follow.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (618)	7/20/2002 5:09:29 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 3959

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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (618)	7/20/2002 7:30:57 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 3959

The Hindu State massacres Muslims to win elections uploaded 11 May 2002 " From 28 February, Hindu mobs martyred at least two thousand Muslims throughout Gujarat. The massacre was well-organised and the arson, hacking, rape and killing were of a set pattern and training. Each mob was of several thousand Hindus and they struck several districts of Gujarat simultaneously. Charred corpses and severely injured survivors prove that Muslims were systematically burnt alive by the Hindus. According to widely reported eye witness accounts, Muslim women and girls were gang-raped and then burnt alive or cut to pieces to hide the evidence. Even the pregnant Muslim woman has had her belly cut open whilst she is alive, so she is witness to the death of her own baby before she is killed." Full story >>> khilafah.com