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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 27 Sep 92 09:42 PDT
Subject: US Court Rules That Marcos Violated
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700534:000:2725
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep 27 09:42:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: US Court Rules That Marcos Violated


/* Written  9:25 am  Sep 25, 1992 by news@netnews.upenn.edu in
cdp:soc.culture.fi */
/* ---------- "US Court Rules That Marcos Violated" ---------- */

	MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Filipinos Friday hailed a
U.S. federal court ruling which found Ferdinand Marcos's estate
liable for torture and other atrocities committed during the late
dictator's 20-year reign.
	``Finally it has been established that under the Marcos
regime torture, disappearances and summary executions existed,''
said Jose Duran, who testified at trial that Marcos agents
tortured him with electric shocks and burning cigarettes.
``Compensation will not mean full justice has been served, but it
will help heal the wounds.''
	Thursday, a federal jury in Honolulu ruled in favor of the
plaintiffs, who filed a lawsuit on behalf of 10,000 Filipinos who
allegedly suffered torture, rape, murder or imprisonment because
they opposed Marcos' policies.
	The case represented the first class-action civil suit
ever filed in U.S. courts by victims of rights abuses committed in
a foreign country.
	It also marked the first time a court officially affirmed
claims of systematic terror during the Marcos regime.
	However, the ruling did not award monetary damages.
	Lawyers said the court would hold a separate trial to
	determine how
much the estate -- represented by Marcos' flamboyant widow, Imelda
-- would pay each victim. Plaintiffs are seeking $3 million for
each person killed or missing, and $2 million for each torture
victim.
	Friday, Philippine human-rights lawyer Romeo Capulong
called the verdict and ``act of justice'' -- not only for Marcos'
victims, but for all worldwide who suffered the same fate.
	The lawyer also said he hoped the decision would ``deliver
a strong message'' to other repressive regimes that ``judicial
remedies are available in the courts of other countries to
compensate, even partly, the victims of these atrocities.''
	Capulong added that the decision could also pave the way
for a similar suit by alleged victims of human-rights abuses
committed during the reign of former President Corazon Aquino.
Aquino assumed power in 1986, after a civilian-backed revolt
ousted Marcos.
	However, despite widespread jubilation over the verdict,
some Philippine officials expressed concern that the decision
would hinder efforts to recoup billions of government dollars
Marcos allegedly stole during his rule.
	``Definitely, it will complicate matters, especially with
respect to the assets abroad,'' said Mario Jalandoni of the
Presidential Commission on Good Government, which is charged with
recovering what money it can from Marcos' estate.
From: lpb@florida.swdc.stratus.com (Len Bucuvalas)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Re: Legalizing drugs (was Re: Clinton's Gestapo/Plan for takeover)
Date: 2 Oct 92 23:35:41 GMT
Organization: Informed Consent

In article <1992Sep23.184823.14811@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR) writes:
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>In article <Buzqs3.DKF@acsu.buffalo.edu>, pck@acsu.buffalo.edu (Philip C. Kilinskas) writes:
>>> cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR) writes:
>>> 
>>> >Nobody can say that they have the "right" to take drugs.  Nobody can say
>>> >that they have the "right" to harm their bodies.  Each person's body
>>> >doesn't belong to them; it belongs to the State.  If you die, you can't 
>>> >have just anything done with your corpse.  The State owns it.  If you are
>>> >committing crimes against the State, the State can destroy your body
>>> >(kill you), restrict your body (throw you in the joint) or even 
>>> >destroy/restrict the bodies of your partners, without fear of reprisal.
>>> >The State owns your body; you don't.
>>>
>>> It really scares me that someone can make statements like this, and see no
>>> problem with them.
>
>	Why?
> 
>>> >IN ABSOLUTE TERMS...
>>> >If you say that people have the "right" to harm their own bodies, then
>>> >you'd have to repeal all laws which protect bodies as proerty of the 
>>> >State.  This would completely eliminate criminal law.
>>> 
>>> Why does this follow?  Criminal law mainly deals with harming *other*
>>> people's bodies, not one's own.  And what would you say about a drug like
>>> LSD, which does no damage to one's body whatsoever?  I fail to see why
>>> you seem to have such a problem with individual liberty.
>
>	Are you sure about this LSD thing?  What if you get a stoned
>misconception that you can fly but discover that the only speed and
>direction is 9.8 m/s^2 directly down?  Man...
>
So in all honesty...why should you care? Not to be callous or
anything...but we have a right to do whatever we choose, as
long as it does not infringe upon the rights of others. For
example, driving while drunk infringes upon the right to be
secure in your own person...therefore DUI is punishable. But
deciding that you can fly and jumping off a bridge just
doesn't qualify as an infringement upon any one else's rights.

People have the right to use OR abuse their own bodies. Damn
the govenment! They Have NO inherent or implied right to tell
me what I can do to myself!

>
>C. Armour-Kidson
>cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca

Len
DISCLAIMER: My opinions, not my employer's

--
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The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very
use of the law is the instrument of illegality.
		-- Ralph Nader @ Harvard Law School, 1/15/92
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 05 Oct 92 18:44 PDT
Subject: Re: AI UA309/92 BRAZIL EJEs
Nf-ID: #R:cdp:1476700589:cdp:1476700590:000:545
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Oct  5 18:44:00 1992


/* Written  7:15 pm  Oct  5, 1992 by gn:rmitchellai in cdp:ai.uan */
The address of the diplomatic representative in the UK
is as follows:
 
His Excellency Senhor Paulo-Tarso Flecha De Lima
Embassy of Brazil
32 Green Street
Mayfair
London W1Y 4AT. Fax: 071 493 5105
 
------------------------------------------------------
 
If you have any queries about this Urgent Action or about
the UA scheme in general, please contact:
 
Ray Mitchell
Amnesty International British Section
99 - 119 Rosebery Avenue
London
EC1R 4RE
 
email: gn:rmitchellai
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 01 Oct 92 10:07 PDT
Subject: Musa Anter
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700570:000:1979
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Oct  1 10:07:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Musa Anter

/* Written  9:30 am  Sep 30, 1992 by aziz@seas.gwu.edu in cdp:soc.culture.tu */


Musa Anter was a 74 year old Kurd who had spent his life trying to
correct the injustice perpetrated on the Kurdish people, through his
writings. His life, as written by himself in a recent autobography, was
a bitter one, punctuated by prison visits, police interrogations, etc. In
all this bitterness, he was able to find humour and convey it to his readers.
As I recall his autobiography began something like this (This is not an
actual quote, I am writing in from memory):

"Recaizade Ekrem Talu, the well-known Turkish writer/intellectual, used to
boast: "I was born in the most beautiful city of Turkey, Istanbul, in the
most elite district of Istanbul, Bostanci, and in the most beautiful house
in Bostanci, Recaizade Yalisi." In a similar style, Musa Anter was born in
the most underdeveloped city of Turkey, Mardin, in the poorest county of 
Mardin, Nusaybin, and in the most inaccessible village of Nusaybin."

He wrote about his life in such a way that the reader couldn't decide whether
he/she should laugh or cry. Most of the time I was doing both.

Recently, he was writing in the weekly Yeni Ulke in a similar vein. In
his articles, he would advocate the Turk-Kurd brotherhood while
criticizing the state, its military, and its politicians very bluntly. He
was also one of the founders of the Mesopotamia Cultural Center, a center in
Istanbul devoted to the study of Kurdish language and culture.

Musa Anter was killed on September 21st in Diyarbakir by "unidentified 
murderers". While this is nothing new in terms of journalists being silenced
through guns, it is by far the most outrageous of the recent sequence of
murders.

I pay my respect to his memory. While I have very little reason for this, I 
hope that the invisible hands behind his killing are caught, and their motives
are made public.

Murat Azizoglu
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 28 Sep 92 10:17 PDT
Subject: SAUDI ARABIA: Execution of POC
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700539:000:1618
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep 28 10:17:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: SAUDI ARABIA: Execution of POC

/* Written  6:39 pm  Sep 27, 1992 by aiusala in cdp:ai.general */
Amnesty International
International Secretariat
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 8DJ
United Kingdom

DATE: 25 SEPTEMBER 1992

WEEKLY UPDATE SERVICE 38/92

SAUDI ARABIA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS AGAINST EXECUTION OF POSSIBLE
PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE

	Amnesty International has protested to the Saudi Arabian government about
the execution of a possible prisoner of conscience.  Sadiq 'Abd al-Karim
Malallah, aged 23, was publicly beheaded on 3 September at al-Qatif in
Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province.  He had been convicted of apostasy and
blasphemy after a trial before the General Court of First Instance in al-
Qatif in 1988.  His death sentence was ratified by the Court of Appeal and
the Supreme Judicial Council and confirmed in a Royal Decree issued on 23
August 1992.

Sadiq Malallah was arrested in July 1988.  He was reportedly held in
solitary confinement for long periods during his first months in detention,
handcuffed, with his feet shackled, beaten and tortured before being
brought to trial.

Sadiq Malallah is believed to have been involved in efforts to secure
improved rights for Saudi Arabia's Shi'a Muslim minority.  Amnesty
International has not received any information to suggest that he had used
or advocated violence.

Amnesty International has also called on the Saudi Arabian authorities to
disclose details of the precise charges and legal procedures used in Sadiq
Malallah's case and to take immediate steps to prevent further
executions.
From: ifcss@WAM.UMD.EDU (IFCSS HQ)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: IFCSS HQ NR-4040:  S1216:  Report on National Coordination
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:30:28 GMT


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IFCSS Headquarters News Release No. 4040    September 28, 1992
          S1216: REPORT ON NATIONAL COORDINATION
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Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars (IFCSS)
   733 15th Street, N.W., Suite 440, Washington, D.C.20005
         Tel. (202)347-0017  Fax: (202)347-0018
                Email: ifcss@wam.umd.edu

         S1216: Report on National Coordination
         ======================================


      As we have promised in our last news release, (NR-4039,
Sunday, September 27), there will be a formal report coming
out today. Here it is:

      1.  We are working with the IFCSS Washington lawyers who 
drafted the Student Protection Bill S.1216 and guided its
passage in Congress. Now we must avoid a veto by President
Bush, especially what is called a "pocket veto." That is when 
the Congress adjourns before the deadline for the President
to sign the bill or veto it and return it to Congress for an
override vote. If the Congress has adjourned by this date,
the President can simply not sign the bill, ("put it in his
pocket") to kill it. Now we are coordinating the Chinese
students efforts to prevent such veto, with the help of our
legal advisers in Washington.

      2.  As of this morning, the bill has not been received
by the White House. It is waiting to be enrolled in the 
Senate (to be signed by the four major sponsors). The HQ has
contacted White House officials to urge President Bush to
sign the bill. We have also contacted Chinese American leaders
and organizations in D.C. to ask for their help.

      3.  The general CSS communities can help the campaign
by sending faxes and petitions, by making telephone calls to
the White House and by contacting local news papers.

      4.  The HQ has specific instructions and plans for
some local groups. We will contact those groups directly,
through email/phone/fax. Please stay alert and ready to
take actions when you are contacted by the HQ.


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         IFCSS Headquarters Office    Signature
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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 05 Oct 92 18:44 PDT
Subject: Re: AI UA309/92 BRAZIL EJEs
Nf-ID: #R:cdp:1476700589:cdp:1476700591:000:343
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Oct  5 18:44:00 1992


/* Written  4:19 pm  Oct  5, 1992 by sharrison in cdp:ai.uan */

for USA readers:

Ambassador Rubens Ricupero
Brazilian Embassy
3006 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington DC 20008

PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Check with the Colorado
office between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm, Mountain Time, weekdays
only, if sending appeals after Novmber 16, 1992.
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 05 Oct 92 10:13 PDT
Subject: Suharto's Hypocrisy -- Bost.Globe
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700586:000:2211
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Oct  5 10:13:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Suharto's Hypocrisy -- Bost.Globe

/* Written  9:40 pm  Oct  4, 1992 by cscheiner in cdp:reg.easttimor */
Boston Globe
24 September 1992
Editorial Page

                         "Suharto's hypocrisy"

     The UN General Assembly will host a shameful bout of hypocrisy
today when it is addressed by Gen. Suharto, the despot who has ruled
Indonesia for 27 years.  Suharto will speak to the General Assembly
in his new role as chairman of the Non-aligned Movement.

     At the movement's summit earlier this month, Suharto exhorted
the members to "ensure that the new world order does not turn out to
be but a new version of the same old pattern of domination of the
strong over the weak and the rich over the poor."  The sentiment was
laudable, but since the fall of the Third Reich no strong state has
committed genocidal crimes against a weak people to match Indonesia's
butchery of the Timorese.

     After Suharto's army invaded East Timor in 1975 - with US arms
and a green light from President Ford and Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger - between 100,000 and 200,000 Timorese were uprooted (sic)
out of a population of 700,000.

     Human rights organizations report that Indonesia continues to
subject the Timorese to extrajudicial executions, torture and
arbitrary arrests.  The massacre of more than 100 Timorese mourners
in a funeral procession last November, filmed by a British cameraman,
gave the outside world a glimpse of the inferno Suharto's occupation
forces have created in East Timor.

     A letter to UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, signed by
150 members of Congress and 142 Japanese legislators, suggested that
"a UN presence in East Timor should be established to monitor the
human rights situation" and that the people of East Timor be
permitted "to freely and fairly exercise their right to
self-determination, a right affirmed by General Assembly and Security
Council resolutions."

     Suharto's regime has defied UN resolutions on East Timor,
committed crimes against humanity and annexed a people that yearns
for independence.  He has no right to pretend to represent the weak
who need protection from the strong.
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 28 Sep 92 10:32 PDT
Subject: Execution Postponed
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700542:000:808
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep 28 10:32:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Execution Postponed

/* Written  5:32 am  Sep 28, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua */

13. EXECUTION OF MEXICAN PRISONER POSTPONED INDEFINITELY
On Sept. 22, the Texas Court of Appeals indefinitely postponed
the execution of Mexican citizen Ricardo Aldape Guerra, who was
scheduled to die by lethal injection on Sept. 24 for the 1982
murder of a US police officer. [Cubanews from Radio Havana Cuba
9/22/92] Death penalty opponents charge irregularities in the
trial that led to Aldape's conviction. The Mexican government and
opposition parties had appealed to Texas for postponement, and on
Sept. 19 human rights activists from Mexico and the US opposed
the planned execution by blocking part of the bridge from Ciudad
Juarez into Texas. [LJ 9/20/92]
From: jlaird@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James P Laird)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Cincinnati meeting for Amnesty International
Date: 4 Oct 92 20:15:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Ohio State University


                         1992 GATHERING
                               for
                      AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
                               in
                         CINCINNATI, OHIO
                               on
                   SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1992

         HELD AT:  UNIVERSITY OF CINCINATI SCHOOL OF LAW
          at the corner of Clifton Ave. and Calhoun St.
                        Cincinnati, Ohio

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL invites all interested people, Amnesty
members and groups to attend our yearly Area Convention.  We will
have two panels:  "Native Americans and Human Rights" with featured
speaker Guy Jones from the Miami Valley Council for Native
Americans; and "Current World Crisies and AI Concerns".  Workshops
will include:  Introduction to Amnesty, Fundraising, AI and the
Death Penalty, Doing Outreach for Amnesty, and a Local Group
Meeting, among others. 

FOR THE FIRST TIME, the Cincinnati Amnesty office is sponsoring a
STUDENT POSTER CONTEST at this convention.  Posters on the theme of
Amnesty International's human rights issues will be accepted.  High
School and College students are encouraged to submit posters. 
Prizes wiil be awarded!  Call the office at 513-221-7659 for the
"How-To's" on this even!

SCHEDULE:
 8:30 am  Registration Opens
 9:00 am  Opening and Amnesty Speakers
10:30 am  Panel and Workshops
12:00 nn  Lunch (on your own) and Student meeting
1:00 pm   Panel and Workshops
2:30 pm   Judging for student poster contest
3:00 pm   Workshops
4:45 pm   Closing and Native American Storyteller

DIRECTIONS:  
     From North I-71 to Wm. Howard Taft exit, follow Taft until it
ends (at Hughs High School)--the Law School will be on your right.

     From North or South I-75 exit at Hopple St.--turn left at the
light--keep going straight at 2nd light and up the hill.  Go to 3rd
light (Clifton Ave.) and turn right.  The Law School is on the left
at the second light.

Registration fees and donations will assist with the cost of
copying, postage, coffee and donuts, and other essentials for this
meeting.  Pre-registration is appreciated but not required.  To
pre-register, please complete the following and return to the
Cincinnati Amnesty International Office (103 William Howard Taft,
Cincinnati, OH 45219).
  
------------------------->8 Clip Here 8<---------------------------

NAME:_____________________________________________

ADDRESS: _________________________________________

I am pre-registering for the October 17th AI gathering and am
enclosing __$5 Adult or __$3 Student/Senior.  __I cannot attend but
would like to donate $__ to the Amnesty International Satellite
Office (money will go towards local AI work).
From: ifcss@WAM.UMD.EDU (IFCSS HQ)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: IFCSS HQ NR-4050: News from White House
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:39:36 GMT


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IFCSS Headquarters News Release No. 4050       October 5, 1992
               NEWS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
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Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars (IFCSS)
   733 15th Street, N.W., Suite 440, Washington, D.C.20005
         Tel. (202)347-0017  Fax: (202)347-0018
                Email: ifcss@wam.umd.edu


               News from the White House
               =========================


     This afternoon, several IFCSS delegates, including Xiao Geng,
IFCSS President, Baoping He, IFCSS Vice President, Haiqing Zhao,
Chairman of IFCSS Student Affairs Committee, Heping Shi, Chairman
of IFCSS Committee on Public Relations and Government Affairs, and
Yingquan Ji, student leader at University of Minnesota, went to the
White House to meet with two staff members of the Public Liaison
Office. The IFCSS delegates came directly to the point. Having
expressed their appreciation to President Bush for the protection
he granted to Chinese students back in 1990, they pointed out that
S1216 was a logical extension of the Executive Order and expressed
their hope that the president will sign the bill into law. The
White House officials responded that the bill had already cleared
the Justice Dept. and Office of Management and Budget and that to
their best knowledge the president would sign it. Asked when the
president would sign it, the officials answered that there was no
time-table for it. They added that they would not put in writing
what they said.

     The IFCSS delegates also discussed some other issues with the
White House officials, including the arrest of Shen Tong and two
other students. IFCSS President Xiao Geng presented the officials
with a package consisting a letter to President George Bush, an
open appeal for Shen Tong and his friends signed by over 70
schools,  a collection of examples illustrating the uncertainty the
Chinese students are facing, and an introduction to IFCSS. In
return, each IFCSS delegate was given a package introducing the
White House. Both sides expressed the wish to stay in touch.

     This is certainly a positive sign, but it is not the time to
rest on your laurels. While we wish to express our thanks to all of
you who have worked so hard to promote the bill, we do not see any
harm if the president gets a few more nudges from the senators and
governors whose names appeared in our previous news bulletins.


                               IFCSS Headquarters
                               IFCSS Student Affairs Committee


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