Category Archives: North Korea
News from Iran – Week 36 – 2012
Prisoners’ News A. Transfers Dr. Nader Babaei transferred handcuffed and shackled to hospital with internal bleeding. Massoud Bastani and Keyvan Samimi were transferred to solitary confinement at Rajaei Shahr Prison. Iran’s oldest political prisoner, Abbas Amir-Entezam, discharged from hospital and allowed to go home. On day 17 of hunger strike, political prisoner Rasoul Herdani has been moved […]
Fish For Dinner? The Fruits of Slave Labor
On March 25, 2011, Yusril became a slave. That afternoon he went to the East Jakarta offices of Indah Megah Sari (IMS), an agency that hires crews to work on foreign fishing vessels. He was offered a job on the Melilla 203, a South Korea-flagged ship that trawls in the waters off New Zealand. “Hurry […]
News and Comments 7 Feb 2012
Syria crisis: Gulf Arab states expel Syrian ambassadors Gulf Arab states say they are expelling Syrian ambassadors in their countries and recalling their envoys from Syria. The Gulf Cooperation Council said Syria had rejected Arab attempts to solve the crisis and end 11 months of bloodshed. The US closed its embassy in Syria on Monday, […]
Panetta Has to Think of a Number for US Military Ops. Iran Still Has No Nukes
Iran could build and set off a nuclear weapon within two to three years if it decided to pursue one, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a television interview aired Sunday. [my emphasis] “The consensus is that, if they decided to do it, it would probably take them about a year to be able to […]
