Fifteen human rights watchdogs have announced their solidarity with the Muslim Brothers detainees undergoing prosecution in front of military tribunals, calling on the group’s lawyers to boycott the kangaroo trial proceedings…
Click on the banner below to read the rights activists’ statement…

The statement could be found in Arabic here…

I received the following statement from the Brussels Tribunal Committee…
The latest US ploy to subjugate Baghdad — exemplified in plans to wall-in the district of Al-Adhamiyah — reveals in clarity the Great Lie of the US-led occupation of Iraq. This is nothing more than the implementation of apartheid and sectarianism by a foreign military police [...]

A fire broke out in Mubarak’s notorious Wadi el-Natron Prison yesterday. Three inmates were killed, and 15 were transferred to the hospital. Click on Fathi Abul Ezz’s cartoon below to read more details in Arabic…

While much of the media sees the presidential elections as a return to “mainstream” politics in France, the true picture is more complicated, explains Alex Callinicos.
Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read the article…

I received the following statement from Human Rights Watch…
The Bush administration’s continuing reliance on secret CIA prisons violates basic human rights standards, Human Rights Watch said today.
The announcement that Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi was transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility from CIA custody raises worrying questions about how long he has been detained by the [...]

The Cairo Conference comes to London…
Hamdeen Sabahy, an independent MP in the Egyptian parliament and a leading figure in the anti-imperialist movement, will be joined by leading activists from the Middle East in a forum on resistance.
On the platform will be veteran Egyptian campaigner Kamal Khalil, Bassem Chit, a leading Lebanese socialist who helped organize [...]

Amnesty International denounced the start of the military tribunals of Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Cairo, saying they’ll be monitoring the coming sessions…

I wanna see this film…
A film about the lives of Iraqi and foreign fighters in northern Baghdad has won first prize at the Al Jazeera International Documentary festival in the Qatari capital Doha.
Meeting Resistance - directed by the UK/US team of Steve Connors and Molly Bingham - won the award, including a 50,000 Riyal ($13,737) [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
The US Senate has joined the House of Representatives in approving legislation that would withdraw combat troops from Iraq over the next 11 months - a plan certain to be vetoed by the White House.
By 51 votes to 46, senators approved about $100bn in funding to continue fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan [...]