Tag: Docudharma Times
Dec 29 2009
Docudharma Times Tuesday December 29
Dec 28 2009
Docudharma Times Monday December 28
Iran opposition figures arrested after protests
A number of opposition figures have been arrested in Iran, a day after violent protests in the capital left at least eight people dead.
The BBC Monday, 28 December 2009
Those detained include senior aides to opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.
His nephew Seyed Ali Mousavi was among those killed in Sunday’s violence, the worst since June’s contested elections.
Family members say they are being prevented from holding his funeral because his body has been taken from the hospital where it was being kept.
His brother, Seyed Reza Mousavi, is quoted by the reformist website Parlemannews as saying: “Nobody accepts responsibility for taking away the body… We cannot have a funeral before we find the body.”
Other opposition sources say the body has been taken by government agents in order to prevent his funeral becoming a rallying point for more protests.
Dec 27 2009
Docudharma Times Sunday December 27
Witnesses Report Fierce Clashes at Tehran Protest
Filed at 6:16 a.m. ET
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 27, 2009
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters in the capital Sunday, killing at least four people in the fiercest clashes in months, opposition Web sites and witnesses said.Thousands of opposition supporters chanting ”Death to the dictator,” a reference to hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, defied official warnings of a harsh crackdown on any protests coinciding with a religious observance on Sunday. Iranians were marking Ashoura, commemorating the seventh-century death in battle of one of Shiite Islam’s most beloved saints.
Dec 18 2009
Docudharma Times Friday December 18
Barack Obama’s speech disappoints and fuels frustration at Copenhagen
US president offers no further commitment on reducing emissions or on finance to poor countries
Suzanne Goldenberg and Allegra Stratton in Copenhagen
guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 December 2009 12.53 GMT
Barack Obama stepped into the chaotic final hours of the Copenhagen summit today saying he was convinced the world could act “boldly and decisively” on climate change.But his speech offered no indication America was ready to embrace bold measures, after world leaders had been working desperately against the clock to try to paper over an agreement to prevent two years of wasted effort – and a 10-day meeting – from ending in total collapse.
Obama, who had been skittish about coming to Copenhagen at all unless it could be cast as a foreign policy success, looked visibly frustrated as he appeared before world leaders.
CIA working with Palestinian security agents
US agency co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture Hamas supporters in West Bank
Ian Cobain in Ramallah
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 December 2009 18.16 GMT
Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the Guardian has learned.Less than a year after Barack Obama signed an executive order that prohibited torture and provided for the lawful interrogation of detainees in US custody, evidence is emerging the CIA is co-operating with security agents whose continuing use of torture has been widely documented by human rights groups.
The relationship between the CIA and the two Palestinian agencies involved – Preventive Security Organisation (PSO) and General Intelligence Service (GI) – is said by some western diplomats and other officials in the region to be so close that the American agency appears to be supervising the Palestinians’ work.