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The Fall of Mubarak

Bianca Jagger | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Egypt, Politics, Mubarak, Egypt Protests, Middle East, Bianca Jagger, Wikileaks, Jordan, Facebook, Sweden, Human Rights Watch ABC, Tunisia, Bbc, Yemen, Twitter, Muhammad Alzery, Time Magazine, Fareed Zakaria, Reuters, Amnesty International, Omar Suleiman, Wael Ghonim, Cnn, Noam Chomsky Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Youtube, Committee to Protect Journalists, Algeria, Ahmed Agiza, World News
Bianca Jagger

All Egyptians must be allowed to participate in shaping their future. The pro-democracy protesters of Egypt have succeeded in ousting Mubarak, but the struggle is not over and there is a long way to go.

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Trial by Newspaper

Bianca Jagger | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Freedom of the Press, Exculpatory Evidence, Swedish Chief Prosecutor Eva Finne, Muhammad Alzery, Daniel Ellsberg, Due Process, Wikileaks, Freedom of Speech, The Guardian, Trial by Newspaper, US Government, Julian Assange, Swedish Legal System, Ahmed Agiza, US Attorney General Eric Holder, Convention Against Torture, World News
Bianca Jagger

A mighty mountain of innuendos has been made to cast Julian Assange as some kind of rapist. As a women's rights advocate, I condemn and abhor rape, but Assange is innocent until proven guilty.

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By One Vote, U.S. Court OKs Torture and "Extraordinary Rendition"

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Jeppesen Dataplan, Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah, World, War on Terror, Torture Accountability, Terrorism, Bisher Al-Rawi, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Binyam Mohamed, Judge Raymond C. Fisher, World News, Politics News, Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Abou Elkassim Britel, Cia, State Secrets Privilege, Guantanamo Bay, Judge Michael Daly Hawkins, Scott Horton, Accountability, Ahmed Agiza, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Egypt, Morocco, President Obama, Eric Holder, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The ruling delivered last Wednesday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of five men subjected to "extraordinary rendition" and torture, is so troubling it takes a while to digest.

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