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Blog Entries by Human Rights First from 02/2011

The World of Accountability for Bush & Rumsfeld

| Posted 02.08.2011 | World
Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, Department of Justice, Accountability, Law and Security, Office of Professional Responsibility, Torture, World News

C. Dixon Osburn Director, Law and Security George W. Bush canceled a scheduled speech in Geneva on February 12 at a dinner in honor of the United Isr...

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Data Casts Doubt on Glanz and Markoff's Egypt Kill Switch Theory

| Posted 02.16.2011 | Technology
Read More: Internet Freedom, Democracy in Egypt, Human Rights Defenders, Internet Security, Egypt, Business and Human Rights, Noor Group, Technology News

The suggestion that the Mubarak regime was more interested in cutting Egyptians' connection to the outside world than in disrupting the organizing potential of the internet within Egypt is dubious.

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Allegations of Abuse, Violations of the Law, Shroud Military Commissions Case

| Posted 02.18.2011 | Politics
Read More: Military Commissions, Law and Security, Torture, Noor Uthman Muhammed, Material Support, Guantanamo, Politics News

"I have never been a member of al Qaeda or the Taliban." These are the words of Noor Uthman Muhammed, read to a panel of military commission member...

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