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  • Iran has a mixed economy
  • Unemployment is estimated to be between 25 and 30 percent, and inflation approximately 20-25 percent
  • Systematic abuses include summary executions, disappearances, widespread use of torture and other degrading treatment, reportedly including rape, severe punishments such as stoning and flogging, harsh prison conditions, arbitrary arrest and detention, and prolonged and incommunicado detention.
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  • privacy rights, and restricts freedom of speech, press, assembly, and association.
  • The Government restricts freedom of religion
  • In July 2000, 10 Iranian Jews were tried and convicted on charges of having illegal contact with Israel, and sentenced to between 2 and 13 years in prison.
  • iolence against women occurs, and women face legal and societal discrimination.
  • The Government restricts the work of human rights groups and continues to deny entry to the UNSR
  • Child labor persists
  • reports of trafficking in persons
  • security forces killing persons during the October "soccer riots.
  • Human rights groups reported that security forces killed at least 20 persons while violently suppressing demonstrations
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Human Rights Report: Egypt - 0 views

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  • government's respect for human rights remained poor
  • limited citizens' right to change their government
  • The government's respect for freedoms of press, association, and religion declined during the year, and the government continued to restrict other civil liberties, particularly freedom of speech, including Internet freedom, and freedom of assembly, including restrictions on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Government corruption and lack of transparency persisted.
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  • Security forces used unwarranted lethal force and tortured and abused prisoners and detainees
  • Most killings resulted from police brutality.
  • On March 24, police officers in Tanta killed Eid Ahmed Ibrahim by driving a police van over the victim, who was trying to prevent the arrest of his brother
  • On October 9, a police officer in the town of Samalut allegedly killed a pregnant woman, Mervat Abdel Salam Abdel Fattah, while searching for her brother-in-law on suspicion of theft. The case remained pending at year's end
  • Security forces used lethal force against protesters in other instances. On April 6 and 7, security forces killed four protesters during violent clashes between police and protestors in Mahalla el Kubra, a textile town in the Nile Delta.
  • employ torture to extract information or force confessions
  • punishments generally did not conform to the seriousness of the offenses
  • On April 30, police officer Ahmed Antar Ibrahim assaulted Al Nadim Center director and anti-torture activist
  • On September 8, police quashed a prison riot and a jailbreak attempt in Assiut with tear gas and live fire, killing one prisoner and wounding 25 others. Prisoners claimed guards had tortured a prisoner to death prior to the riot. Authorities commenced an investigation into the riot but had not taken further action at year's end.
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Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories Human Rights - 0 views

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  • Palestinians Denied Fair Access to Water
  • Israel uses more than 80 per cent of the water from the Mountain Aquifer, the main source of underground water in Israel and the OPT, while restricting Palestinian access to a mere 20 per cent.
  • AI concerns can be defined by distinct geographical areas and how and by whom they are governed: Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories which include east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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  • excessive use of force, arbitrary arrests, ill-treatment, torture and the use of administrative detention to jail individuals without charge or trial.
  • demolition of their homes; punitive arrests, unfair trials, ill-treatment and torture of detainees and the use of lethal force to subdue nonviolent demonstrations
  • 'occupying power
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IRIN Middle East | MIDDLE EAST: MIDDLE EAST: Weekly update of human rights violations i... - 0 views

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  • “It is disturbing that in Egypt physical assaults on journalists have become systematic during this type of public demonstration,
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Syria jails human rights activist - 1 views

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  • A Syrian human rights activist has been jailed for five years for spreading hostile information and joining an illegal political group
  • Syria has turned its back on Western pressure to reform.
  • Bunni was arrested after signing an appeal for radical reform in relations between Syria and Lebanon in May 2006
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Turkey | Human Rights Watch - 1 views

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  • The heavy sentences for nine prison and police officials for torture, leading in one case to death, is a momentous verdict that should signal a renewed effort by the Turkish government to end torture in custody
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Turkey: Landmark Convictions in Torture Case | Human Rights Watch - 0 views

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  • Turkish court convicted a senior prison official for torture by guards under his command. 
  • life in prison
  • torture and ill-treatment in and outside places of detention in Turkey
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Turkey: Combat Police Killings and Violence | Human Rights Watch - 0 views

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  • A recent string of shootings and ill-treatment by police officers demonstrates the widespread problem of excessive violence by Turkish law enforcemen
  • law enforcement officials in Turkey shot and seriously wounded a man in the western town of Kuşadası; badly beat a child in the south-eastern city of Hakkari; and shot and killed a child near the Iranian border
  • police officers apprehending 16-year-old H.K., following an April 13, 2010, demonstration in Hakkari, roughing him up and then dragging him away in an apparently semi-conscious state.
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  • police have been caught on camera using violence against children and young people in mainly Kurdish-populated southeast Turkey.
  • The autopsy confirmed that the boy died from a gunshot wound, and the gendarmerie later confirmed that the fatal bullet was fired from a gendarme's gun
  • The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, a national nongovernmental organization, has documented 48 incidents of fatal shootings by police and gendarmerie during 2009 alone, concluding in each case that the circumstances warrant a full investigation to determine whether the shootings constituted summary killings.
  • Establish an effective independent police complaints authority to investigate police misconduct promptly, capable of leading to the prosecution of offenders; Clarify laws to state explicitly that the use of lethal force is a means of last resort and used only where necessary to protect life; Strictly monitor the use of pepper gas and tear gas and initiate prompt, independent, and thorough inquiries into their reported misuse and excessive or arbitrary use; Investigate commanding officers in cases of serious human rights violations by the police, and; Impose disciplinary sanctions on law enforcement officers who commit abuses.
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Gaza violence fuels scepticism about talks - The National Newspaper - 0 views

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  • increased violence in the Gaza Strip has added to the scepticism of ordinary Palestinians about the negotiations.
  • Fourteen rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza into Israel since the beginning of the week, according to the military.
  • it has condemned Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, for entering peace negotiations with Israel and vowed to launch attacks to scuttle them.
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  • scheduled to meet Mr Abbas in Ramallah yesterday before travelling to Jordan to meet with King Abdullah II.
  • reiterated his commitment to the talks
  • part of a second round of negotiations.
  • Few details of the session have emerged.
  • begun to grapple with the core issues that can only be resolved through face-to-face negotiations,
  • increasingly unpopular
  • 100 demonstrators marched through the West Bank
  • flags to protest against the meeting.
  • We don’t expect anything,”
  • no framework to base them on
  • extend a moratorium on settlement construction
  • crucial for Mr Abbas to walk away from negotiations with face-saving measures.
  • moratorium extension a precondition for the talks to continue.
  • encroach on the land that Palestinians want for a future state.
  • international support for his position.
  • called on Israel to extend the moratorium,
  • Mr Obama has proposed a three-month extension.
  • Mr Abbas has agreed to the US proposa
  • ntense pressure from members of his right-wing ruling coalition and the settler movement to let the moratorium expire, has yet to respond.
  • official relinquishing of the so-called right of return of Palestinian refugees to what is now Israel.
  • “Any negotiation process has to be on the basis of mutual compromise.”
  • as part of a second round of negotiations.
  • as part of a second round of negotiations.
  • as part of a second round of negotiations.
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World - Israel: Bringing Israel's Bomb Out of the Basement | Israel - 0 views

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  • acquire nuclear weapons.
  • fear of genocide is the key to understanding Israel's nuclear resolve,
  • nuclear posture known as opacity,
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  • fundamentally differen
  • Israel neither affirms nor denies its possession of nuclear weapon
  • secret accord between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in September 1969.
  • almost universal support among members of the Israeli security establishment, who argue that, by not publicly flaunting its nuclear status,
  • reduced its neighbors' incentives to proliferate
  • anachronistic,
  • even counterproductive.
  • convincing case that it is a responsible one.
  • shields Israel's nuclear capabilities and intentions,
  • ndercuts the need for its citizens to be informed about issues that are literally matters of life and death,
  • nuclear policy is indeed one of defensive last resort and from participating in a meaningful fashion in regional arms control and global disarmament deliberations.
  • making Israel vulnerable to the charge that it is a nuclear-armed pariah state, and thus associating it to an uncomfortable degree with today's rogue Iranian regime.
  • East peace process is linked to the issue of nuclear weapons in the region.
  • publicly oppose the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran, there is also growing support for dealing with this problem in an 'evenhanded' manner, namely, by establishing a nuclear weapons free zone across the entire region.
  • stop Iran from crossing the nuclear threshold and to contain a nuclear-armed Iran if those efforts fail.
  • not the first state to acquire nuclear weapons
  • n order to deal effectively with the new regional nuclear environment and emerging global nuclear norms, Israel must reassess the wisdom of its unwavering commitment to opacity
  • etaining its military edge
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Attack on Minibus Kills 10 in Turkey - WSJ.com - 0 views

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  • 0 people in southeast Turkey, a local governor said.
  • explosion
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    Israeli policy that is causing a lot of problems with peace talks
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