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Peru: Trumped up Criminal Charge Against Human Rights Lawyer Mr. Jhon Kennedy Vega Carrascal

Addressing the matter quickly and fairly is the only positive course of action.

(SALEM) - An attorney in Peru who is a noted human rights defender, is facing up to fifteen years in prison for an act he did not have anything to do with.

The criminal charge against John Kennedy Vega Carrascal is solely motivated by his peaceful and legitimate activities in the defence of human rights, particularly his efforts to advise people facing forced eviction of their rights.

How A Hate-Driven Anti-Muslim Film Led to the Death of Four U.S. Diplomats

The AP found that Nakoula had both Coptic and evangelical Christian associates in the shooting of the film.

(CHICAGO) - Leave it to Juan Cole to come up with just the right metaphor to interpret the events in Libya and Egypt this week.

Cole knows the Middle East and he has the writing skills to clarify the complexities of the region and how they interact with U.S. politics as they unfold.

The International Common Law Court of Justice

(Affiliated with The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State)

(SASKATCHEWAN) - I am speaking to you today on behalf of the Council of Elders of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State: a multinational coalition of over fifteen organizations in seven countries.

A Public International Court of Justice is hereby convened to consider evidence related to charges of crimes against humanity and criminal conspiracy by institutions of church and state, and their fiduciary officers.

`Systematic Sinhalisation in Jaffna, Mullaitivu` - Tamil politicians

“...nothing but a systematic campaign to decimate very existence of the Tamil nation” - Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam

(JAFFNA,Sri Lanka) - In the name of keeping the security tight in the former war zones, the government of Sri Lanka “is systematically Sinhalising the traditional fishing livelihood of the war-ravaged Tamils in the northern Jaffna and north-eastern Mullaitivu districts”.

Former MP and leader of the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam said the motive was to “eliminate the very existence of the traditional Tamil nation as a whole”.

Pashtun Awakening: Defeat the Taliban by Changing the Narrative

In order to accomplish this, NATO and ISAF should focus on unifying the Pashtuns through a grassroots information campaign - a path that will be much more effective than the military option.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The New World Strategies Coalition, a think tank founded by native Afghans which creates nonmilitary solutions for Afghanistan, released its latest policy brief today entitled, Pashtun Awakening: Defeat the Taliban by Changing the Narrative.

The policy brief outlines a solution for resolving the situation in Afghanistan by exposing how Pakistan has systemically weakened Afghanistan's sacred tribal structure via its Taliban proxy.

Israel, The Day After

It is down to world leaders to dismantle Israel and its powerful Jewish lobbies wisely and carefully, accepting all the time that we are dealing with a very lethal entity.

(LONDON) - Last week, an interesting article by Daniel Gordis appeared on Tablemag.com.

Gordis, a committed Zionist intellectual, is concerned about the inevitable collapse of the Jewish state and its impact on world Jewry in general and American Jews in particular.

CAIR Calls for Hate Crime Probe of Va. Mosque Vandalism

Muslim individuals and institutions are being asked to review advice on security procedures in CAIR’s "Community Security and Safety Tips.”

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) tonight called on local, state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate vandalism at a Virginia mosque as a possible hate crime.

Reports indicate that the Islamic Center of the Shenandoah Valley in Harrisonburg, Va., was vandalized sometime Thursday night with obscene hate graffiti...

Rwanda: 3 Opponents in Prison, Nominated for the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament 2012

Past winners of this award are including Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi.

(BRUSSELS) - Three opponents of the RPF regime currently in power in Rwanda were nominated by 42 MEPs for the prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2012 of the European Parliament.

Umuhoza Victoire Ingabire, Bernard Ntaganda and Deogratias Mushyayidi, all three are currently imprisoned in Kigali and should know the result around 10 December.

Thoughts on the Violence in Libya and Egypt

Who made the film? The knee-jerk reaction by too many, "It must be the Jews." But we should have been extremely skeptical of the source of the movie.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - While the nation mourns the killing of J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and four others, there lingers misunderstandings of what happened in Libya and Egypt and why.

Here is an accumulation of my comments on other Salem-News articles.

Smoking Gun: Producer Of Anti-Islam Film Was Fed Snitch

L.A. man began cooperating with prosecutors after 2009 fraud bust

(NEW YORK The Smoking Gun) - The U.S. Secretary of State has stressed that the U.S. government had “absolutely nothing to do with” the anti-Islam film that has touched off violence in the Middle East.

Hillary Clinton’s attempt to distance the U.S. from “Innocence of Muslims”--and, by extension, is complicated by the revelation that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula became a government informant after his 2009 arrest for bank fraud...