By Toko Sekiguchi at Time.com (01.05.2007). -- Is this the first English coverage on the Nishiyama case? The judicial and mass media are submissive to the then power holders. The separation of three powers sucks... Thanks to Sekiguchi-san.
By Marc Cooper at The Nation (08.01.2007 Issue) :
Since the US invasion in 2003, a handful of active-duty troops have openly refused deployment to Iraq. But the lightning rod case of resistance has been that of 28-year-old Lieut. Ehren Watada of the US Army.
The highest-ranking commissioned officer to resist deployment, Watada faces a court-martial showdown as early as February, a trial that could land him an eight-year jail sentence. He has been charged with missing a troop movement, conduct unbecoming an officer and contempt toward officials. What particularly irked the Army was Watada's August appearance before a Veterans for Peace convention in Seattle, where the young officer called for more resistance to the war in Iraq. "The idea is this," Watada said, "that to stop an illegal and unjust war, the soldiers can choose to stop fighting it."
By Frank Ejby Poulsen at FM5.at (n.d., 21.11?) :
Yes, yes, capital punishment is a bad thing. And yes, yes, Saddam Hussein's trial is full of flaws, as Human Rights Watch has recently denounced. So no, no, Saddam Hussein should not be hanged. Two reasons are being heard for this, on which I would like to comment and add a third one.
By Sarah Boseley at AFP/CommonDreams (14.11.2006) :
An international grouping of lawyers has filed a lawsuit calling on German prosecutors to investigate outgoing US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for allegedly sanctioning torture.
The 220-page suit is being brought on behalf of 11 former Iraqi detainees of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad and one Saudi currently being held at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The suit was filed to Germany's federal prosecutor Monika Harms at her offices in the western city of Karlsruhe, said Hannes Honecker, the secretary-general of the Germany-based Republican Attorneys' Association Tuesday.
German law allows the pursuit of warcrimes cases regardless of where they originate in the world.
"Don't Leave Town, Don" by Marjorie Cohn at CounterPunch (10.11.2006).
Just days after his resignation, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany's top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Full text of Amnesty International's statement at Global Research (08.11.2006).
By AP at IHT (17.10.2006) :
TOKYO In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of Japan on Tuesday recognized the intellectual property rights of employees who invent products, ordering Hitachi to pay ¥163 million to a former worker.
The court backed a January 2004 decision by the Tokyo High Court that awarded the payment, equivalent to over $1.3 million, to Seiji Yonezawa, who invented technology for reading compact discs and digital video discs while working at Hitachi, a court official said.
Japan once embraced a tradition of worker loyalty, under which employees were guaranteed a job for life but were not rewarded on the basis of performance. But intellectual property lawsuits by employees have increased steadily in recent years.
By Sarah Olson at TruthOut (18.09.2006) :
US Army First Lieutenant Ehren Watada, the first officer to publicly refuse to deploy to Iraq, faces one new charge, the Army announced Friday. The additional charge, of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentlemen, centers on Lieutenant Watada's statement that "to stop an illegal and unjust war, soldiers can choose to stop fighting it." Lieutenant Watada made the comments during a public address to the annual Veterans for Peace convention held in Seattle, Washington, in mid-August.
In response to the additional charge, Lieutenant Watada stated: "As I've said in the past, my only intent is to impress upon all service members that their duty is to fully evaluate the truth and lawfulness behind every order - including the one to participate in a war. We each have a civic and moral responsibility to make the right choices regardless of the consequences."
By James Carroll at The Boston Globe (18.09.2006) :
"TRUST US. You're guilty. We're going to execute you, but we can't tell you why." That is how Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, characterized the Bush administration's recent proposal for a draconian new trial system to deal with accused terrorists. The plan includes a reinterpretation of prisoner protections guaranteed by the Geneva Conventions. Graham was joined in opposition last week by other Republicans, including Colin Powell. Remarkably , lawyers in the Pentagon also raised objections. But the White House argument is straightforward: terrorists are such a mortal threat that established due process must be suspended. In particular, the classified secrets of anti terrorist operations must be so closely held that the most basic pillar of jurisprudence -- the accused's right to know and respond to evidence -- must be discarded. The legislation was drafted by Franz Kafka.
From Mainichi Daily News (15.09.2006) :
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a special appeal by AUM Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara against the death sentence for the sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system in 1995 and other crimes.
The death sentence on 51-year-old Asahara for 13 crimes is now finalized as Japan's top court dismissed his appeal.
By Bill Quigley at Japan Focus (12.09.2006).
By Sarah Olson at TruthOut (25.08.2006).
Text by Takeyama Michio, translation and introduction by Richard Minear at Japan Focus (11.08.2006) :
One day I went to observe the war crimes trial.
On this day they were holding a special hearing, so tickets weren’t necessary, and they didn’t examine personal effects, either. The courtroom set-up was complicated; for me, there for the first time, it wasn’t easy to figure out. The judges sitting on a high dais, the prosecutors and defense attorneys speaking by turns as they stood at a podium in the trough below the judges, the interpreters in a glass box up near the ceiling: the words these people spoke came via earphones in two languages, and it took a while for things to come into focus. Into the courtroom came the rays of the late-autumn sun on a day of broken clouds, at times too bright for my eyes, then dark once more.
By Pete Yost at AP/CommonDreams (10.08.2006) :
"I think what this bill can do is in effect immunize past crimes. That's why it's so dangerous," said a third attorney, Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice.
Fidell said the initiative is "not just protection of political appointees, but also CIA personnel who led interrogations."
By Nick Turse & Deborah Nelson at The LA Times (06.08.2006). Declassified papers show U.S. atrocities went far beyond My Lai.
By Suvendrini Kakuchi at Asia Times (03.08.2006) :
TOKYO - A rare essay posted on the Web by a crime victim who does not call for the death penalty for the culprit has become a potent symbol for activists who face an uphill battle to abolish Japan's capital punishment laws.
Yumiko Yamaguchi, who was slashed on her face by a 16-year-old boy when he went on a rampage on a public bus six years ago, is now over 50 and in a contemplative mood. After reflection, Yamaguchi says she does not seek retribution, only an apology.
"While I am not yet an advocate of abolishing capital punishment, what victims of crime deeply wish is for the criminal to repent what he has done and apologize to the people he has hurt, a process that will stop heinous crimes in the long run. This cannot be achieved by sentencing him to death," she wrote on her website.
From TPMMuckRaker.com (31.07.2006) :
The laws implicated by the Administration's actions include federal laws against making false statements to congress [sic]; federal laws and international treaties prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; federal laws concerning retaliating against witnesses and other government employees; Executive Orders concerning leaking and other misuse of intelligence; federal regulations and ethical requirements governing conflicts of interest; the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; communications privacy laws; the National Security Act; and the Fourth Amendment.
From TGCom (25.07.2006) :
Poco prima delle 21 il presidente della Corte Federale, Piero Sandulli, ha letto in diretta tv le sentenze del processo di appello, ultimo grado di giudizio della giustizia sportiva. La Juventus viene retrocessa in serie B con 17 punti di penalizzazione nel 2006/07, il Milan viene penalizzato di 30 punti nel 2005/06 e di 8 nella prossima. La Fiorentina mantiene la A con 19 punti di penalità, la Lazio in A partirà da -11
ユベントスは、－５０ポイントでもいいから、セリエＡに残してくれぇ。
By Robert Pear at The NY Times (24.07.2006).
ブッシュも小泉も、同じ程度の知能しか持ち合わせていないわけ、ね。
By Elizabeth Weiss Green at US News/TruthOut (21.07.2006).
By Mike Corder (AP) at AccessNorthGa.com (17.07.2006) :
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- A Dutch court refused Monday to ban a political party whose main goal is to lower the age of sexual consent from 16 to 12. The judge said it was the voters' right to judge the appeal of political parties.
The party has only three known members, one of whom was convicted of molesting an 11-year-old boy in 1987. Widely dubbed the "pedophile" party, it is unlikely ever to win a seat in parliament. The group would need around 60,000 votes, and pollsters estimate it would get fewer than 1,000.
奇しくも、山本圭一にお誂えのニュース。山本はオランダへ行くべし。
At La Gazzetta dello Sport (15.07.2006).
イタリア・サッカー界の不正疑惑に裁定。ユベントスは、過去二年の優勝を剥奪、セリエＢに降格、マイナス３０ポイント。これでは、一年でセリエＡ復帰は、無理だよ。クラブ創設以来、降格は初めてではないかな。しかも不正のせいで降格だから、みっともないぞ。デル・ピエロよ、どこへ行く。ミランはセリエＡにとどまるけど、マイナス１５ポイントだから、来期の優勝はちょっと難しい。モッジ、カッラーロはもちろん、パイレートも含めて、多数処分。
"Moggi's win-at-all-costs method
is the essence of a very Italian scandal" by John Hooper at The Guardian (15.07.2006) : John Foot, author of Calcio: A History of Italian Football, thinks the
scandal is in some respects quintessentially Italian: "Sucking up to the
powerful is something that happens naturally in Italian society". But he also
believes it is about the vast quantities of money now at stake in the Italian
game. "The big clubs can't leave anything to chance now. They just have to win
every year." — そうかなぁ、どの国も怪しいけど……。
From TruthOut (13.07.2006) :
Washington, DC - Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, filed suit in federal court today against Vice President Dick Cheney, his former Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, top Presidential advisor Karl Rove and other unnamed senior White House officials, for their role in the public disclosure of Valerie Wilson's classified CIA status.
A copy of the Complaint as filed in court is attached, as is a page with excerpts from the Complaint.
The suit accuses the defendants of violating the Wilsons' constitutional and other legal rights as a result of "a conspiracy among current and former high-level officials in the White House" to "discredit, punish and seek revenge against" Mr. Wilson for publicly disputing statements made by President Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address justifying the war in Iraq.
佳境にさしかかってきたかな。
By Rick Lyman at The NY Times (13.07.2006).
HOUSTON, July 12 — An Indian tribe sued the former superlobbyist Jack Abramoff and Ralph Reed, a candidate for lieutenant governor in Georgia, on Wednesday, seeking millions of dollars in lost revenues from a casino that the Texas tribe said had been fraudulently closed.
The suit, in Federal District Court in Austin, says Mr. Abramoff, Mr. Reed and three other men mounted a fake religiously themed moral crusade in 2001 to defeat a bill in the Texas Legislature that would have legalized gambling in Indian casinos.
Their real motive, the suit adds, was to promote the gambling interests of a tribe in Louisiana that was paying them to represent its interest in a competing casino.
Orhan Pamuk defends Perihan Magden at The Guardian (03.06.2006). Via MoorishGirl.
極東の島国でパムクもへったくれもないものだけど、マグデンにたいするトルコ当局の仕打ちはひどいなぁ。彼女の小説は二冊、英訳されているらしいから、読んでみよう。
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