Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Speriamo che le organizzazioni umanitarie intervengano.

 Subject: Speriamo che le organizzazioni umanitarie si facciano sentire
anche
 a Gaza
 Una "corte" dell' Autorita' palestinese ha condannato a morte d'avanti ad
un
 plotone d'esecuzione un attivista per i diritti civili, accusandolo di
 collaborare con gli israeliani.
  Per l'esecuzione ci vuole  l'autorizzazione di Arraffa-t.
  Chiediamo a  tutti i pacifisti, agli attivisti per i diritti dell' uomo di
 adoperarsi contro questa barbara usanza.
 Chiediamo alla parlamentare europea Luisa Morgantini di intervenire presso
 il suo amico Arraffa-t per bloccare questa esecuzione di un  attivista
dell'
 organizzazione Betzelem.
 PA sentences human rights worker to death
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       KHALED ABU TOAMEH Oct. 28, 2002
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 Another person was added to the Palestinian Authority's death row on Monday
 when a court in Gaza City sentenced Haidar Ghanem, a human rights worker
and
 journalist, to death by firing squad after finding him guilty of
 collaboration with Israel.
 The PA's state security court sentenced Ghanem, a field researcher for
 B'tselem and a resident of Rafah, after holding only two sessions. He was
 convicted of helping Israel kill four Fatah activists in Rafah.
 Ghanem pleaded guilty to collaborating, but denied involvement in the
 killings. He is the fourth Palestinian to receive the death sentence in
 recent weeks. The sentences can not be carried out unless they are
 authorized by PA Chairman Yasser Arafat.
 Prosecutor Wael Zakut told the court Ghanem was recruited as an informer in
 1996. He said he had been entrusted with following the movements of Fatah
 members Jamal Abdel Razek, Awni Dahir, Sami Abu Laban, and Nael Liddawi in
 return for an unspecified amount of money.
 The prosecutor claimed the IDF killed them 15 minutes after Ghanem tipped
 off the Shin Bet about the location of their car. An undercover IDF unit
 intercepted the car, killing all four, he added.
 Ghanem was arrested last July by the Preventive Security Service on charges
 of collaboration with Israel.
The 39-year-old father of two has been working as a field researcher for
 B'tselem since September 2001.
 A PSS officer involved in Ghanem's interrogation told the three judges the
 accused had opened a press office in Rafah that was supplying the Shin Bet
 with different information. He had also interviewed Hamas leader and
founder
 Shiekh Ahmed Yassin and former PSS head Muhammed Dahlan for the Shin Bet,
 the witness charged. Ghanem was paid a monthly sum for his "press
services."
 The PSS officer also claimed that Ghanem had supplied Israel with detailed
 reports on the movements of PA security personnel and names of Palestinians
 involved in terror attacks. Among other things, Ghanem prepared reports on
 the general mood in the Gaza Strip, the status of the PA, and details on
the
 salaries of its employees.
The officer told the court that Ghanem's Shin Bet operators had given him
 permission to work as a field researcher with B'tselem to facilitate his
 mission and provide a cover for his espionage activities.
 Ghanem told the court that he had confessed of his own free will because he
 had hoped to work as a double agent. He admitted that he had served as an
 informer, but said he did not watch the movements of the Fatah fugitives
 with the purpose of killing them.
 There was a thunderous applause in the courtroom when the president of the
 court read out the verdict.
 A B'tselem representative who met him shortly after his arrest reported
that
 Ghanem said he had been arrested because of his work at B'tselem. He
 collected testimony from Palestinians in the Rafah area.
 Sources in B'tselem told The Jerusalem Post Monday night that the PA was
not
 happy with Ghanem's work because he had "started asking too many questions
 that embarrassed PA officials."
 A statement issued by the organization a few days after the arrest said:
 "B'tselem is deeply concerned that Ghanem was arrested because of his work
 with the organization. B'tselem also fears that the purpose of his arrest
is
 to deter human rights workers from carrying out their work honestly and
with
 the intention of uncovering the truth. B'tselem is concerned that torture
is
i being used in Ghanem's interrogation."
 B'tselem strongly rejected any accusation that Ghanem was a collaborator
and
 demanded that the PA proved these claims by presenting evidence that meets
 internationally accepted legal standards.
 The organization noted that Palestinians suspected of collaborating are
 often sentenced to death by the state security court in "kangaroo" trials,
 which violate the fundamental principles of due process.
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Te lo puoi scordare. Quando succedono queste cose quelli diventano come
le tre scimmiette: non vedo - non sento - non parlo.

 le tre scimmiette: non vedo - non sento - non parlo.
Più che darti purtroppo ragione, non posso. E constato che ancora una volta,
anche in Italia, le schifose anime belle, quando c'è da difendere la
giustizia si fanno mute.
Ciao
Ad'I