“It is not right to say that we forced them to sign the paper because it is for their benefit especially if the ATA is declared unconstitutional by the SC.”
Aetas neither bribed nor coerced into filing a petition against Terror Law – lawyers
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CPP asserts revolution is not terrorism, says ‘terror tag’ sets the stage for further repression
“The regime is setting the stage for all-out suppression of democratic rights using ‘anti-terrorism’ as pretext.”
Police house-to-house visit in search of COVID-19 patients alarms rights defenders
With the new policy, there is a higher probability that the police themselves would be spreading the disease.
Is the US Pulling the Plug on Iraqi Workers?
By DAVID BACON Truthout International Posted by Bulatlat.com Early in the morning of July 21, police stormed the offices of the Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union in Basra, the poverty-stricken capital of Iraq’s oil-rich south. A shamefaced officer told Hashmeya Muhsin, the first woman to head a national union in Iraq, that they’d come to…