March 2009


By William Fisher Inter Press Service 3/4/09

In two court cases that could test the limits of the Barack Obama administration’s executive authority as well as its commitment to transparency, human rights lawyers are challenging the government’s right to use information obtained through warrantless wiretapping as evidence and to shut down charitable organisations without allowing them to defend themselves. (more…)

We’re human beings there. … Here we are mice.

By Julia Lyon The Salt Lake Tribune 2/28/09

Six months ago, Tarek Darwish and his family arrived in Utah as refugees craving a new and better life. Last week, his family wept and kissed his hand in farewell as the former lawyer, disillusioned, left to return to Iraq. (more…)

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