PRESS RELEASE For immediate distribution Date: 20 February 2011 SUPPORT IRAQI PROTESTS! While millions across the world watched live 18 days of dramatic revolution that ousted the US-allied torture-friendly regime of Hosni Mubarak, no one is offered live feed from Iraq of its people’s uprising against an enemy much worse. And while President Obama and …
Wikileaks Iraq War Logs: Legal Action is Unavoidable
We believe that only by coordinated action can those responsible for US and UK crimes in Iraq be made accountable. We therefore call for the formation of an international coalition of lawyers, legal specialists and antiwar and anti-occupation progressive forces to realise this obligation.
Partition by census
We, the undersigned, defending the right of Iraq to independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, rejecting the attempts of Iraqi puppets promoted by the US occupation to trade the national rights of Iraqis and to institutionalise via census the criminal demographic engineering they have pursued by force, declare that: From the first day of the …
Iraq: 19 years of intended destruction
Having supported and participated with others in reviving the efficacy of people’s tribunals as a moral response to imperial war, we turned to — and encourage others to move towards — legal and judicial action. Why?
Statement on the closure of the legal case for Iraq in Spain: Call for coordinated action
Public enquiries on the decision to wage war on Iraq that are silent about the crimes committed, the victims involved, and provide for no sanction, whatever their outcome, are not enough. Illegal acts should entail consequences: the dead and the harmed deserve justice.
Introduction from the Spanish legal case
The following is the introduction to a legal case filed 6 October 2009 before the Audiencia Nacional in Spain against four United States presidents and four United Kingdom prime ministers for commissioning, condoning and/or perpetuating multiple war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Iraq. The case was filed under laws of universal jurisdiction.
For justice for Iraq: Legal case filed against 4 US presidents and 4 UK prime ministers
Today the Spanish Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pressure from powerful governments accused of grave crimes, will limit Spain’s laws of universal jurisdiction. Yesterday, ahead of the change of law, a legal case was filed at the Audiencia Nacional against four United States presidents and four United Kingdom prime ministers for commissioning, condoning and/or perpetuating multiple war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Iraq.
Is what the US has been doing in Iraq genocide?
November, 2007, published in Turkey’s Today’s Zaman By Bulent Kenes The answer given to this question by Dr. Ian Douglas, who teaches courses on political science at An-Najah National University and is a member of the BRussells Tribunal Committee, is an open and clear “Yes.” The massive tragedy that has been taking place right next …
