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On the 12 June 2008 the US Supreme Court recognized, in the case of Boumediene v.Bush, the right of those detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to challenge their detention in US civilian courts. Amnesty International described the ruling as an essential step towards restoring the rule of law to the USA’...
By Gore Vidal
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German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung confirmed on Tuesday that Germany is planning on increasing the number of troops stationed in Afghanistan by 1,000, later this year.
The Asian Human Rights Commission appreciates and welcomes the announcement by the new government of Pakistan to commute death sentences to life imprisonment. The AHRC hopes that the government of Prime...
Marking World Refugee Day on Friday 20 June, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said that providing protection for refugees today is vastly more challenging than when his office began work...
On the 12 June 2008 the US Supreme Court recognized, in the case of Boumediene v.Bush, the right of those detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to challenge their detention in US civilian courts. Amnesty International...
By Gore Vidal
On June 10, 2008, a counterrevolution began on the floor of the House of Representatives against the gas and oil crooks who had seized control of the federal government. This counterrevolution...
Reporters Without Borders is worried about the kidnapping of leading cyber-dissident Huang Qi, the founder of the human rights website 64Tianwang (http://www.64tianwang.com). He and two other activists...
Young homophobic communist Pavel Tarasov, who 18 months ago infamously said that a “good faggot is a dead faggot”, has surfaced as a staffer for Communist presidential candidate Gennady Zyuganov.
As a representative of the communist leader, Mr. Tarasov took part recently in debates between presidential candidates on Russian national TV channel.
He also participated in the anti-gay riots in Moscow during the city’s two Gay Prides in 2006 and last year, helping to disperse gay men and women with a group of young homophobic communists.
Wearing a red T-shirt with communist symbols, Mr. Tarasov was at the head of homophobic mob which shouted on the streets: “Death to faggots!”
In 2006 photographs of Tarasov and his comrades appeared on the Internet against a background of nationalists and Cossacks dispersing gay and lesbian demonstrators.
During last year’s Gay Pride, he appeared again on the Moscow streets with his friends and made homophobic statements in front of the cameras.
Mr. Tarasov has published reports on his anti-gay riots on the official homepage of Youth Communist Union.
His most notorious homophobic statement was made in 2006 at the official forum of young communist homepage. In October 2006 he declared: “Faggots need to attract attention to themselves so that they could be regarded as gays, not as faggots. [A] Good faggot is a dead faggot!”
In addition, Mr. Tarasov is running for municipal election in Moscow on March 2, the same date as the presidential election.
The Communist Party of Russian Federation is still one of the most homophobic parties in Russia. Its leader Gennady Zyuganov says that homosexuality contradicts to Russian national traditions.
Communist member of State Duma Vitor Ilyukhin recently supported criminal penalty for homosexuality in Russia.
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