Tadhamun (solidarity) is an Iraqi women organization, standing by Iraqi women's struggle against sectarian politics in Iraq. Fighting for equal citizenship across ethnicities and religions, for human rights, and gender equality.
جمعية تضامن تدعم المساواة في المواطنة بغض النظر عن الأنتماء الأثني أو الديني وتسعى من أجل العدالة الأجتماعية و حماية حقوق الأنسان في العراق
The US Iraq Joint Coordinating Committee gets underway. But is anyone mentioning human rights? Photograph: Mohammed Jalil/EPA
There
is also news of another 196 people on death row. According to Iraqi
officials, they have all
been
convicted on charges "related to terrorism," but there is little
information about their names, what crimes they committed or whether
they have access to lawyers or not. Amnesty International and Human
Rights Watch have previously documented the prevalence of unfair trials and torture in detention in
Iraq. Confessions under torture are often the only evidence against a
person who has been arrested following a secret informant's report.
Parading the accused with their tortured, empty looks on Al Iraqiya, the
official TV channel, is the norm. It took a court in Baghdad only 15
minutes to sentence Ramze Shihab Ahmed, a dual Iraqi-UK national, to 15 years' imprisonment after being found guilty of "funding terrorist groups".
Amnesty
has obtained and examined court documents and said it believes the
trial proceedings were "grossly unfair". Ahmed was held in a secret
prison near Baghdad, during which time his whereabouts were completely
unknown to his family. During this period Ahmed alleges he was tortured –
with electric shocks to his genitals and suffocation by plastic bags –
into making a false "confession" to terrorist offences.
So
what kind of human
rights are observed in the "new Iraq"? Hardly any. The list of abuses
is long and the tip of the iceberg is waves of arbitrary arrests (over
1,000 monthly), torture and executions. All are barely noticed by the
world media and the US and British official silence is rather convenient
to cover up the crimes and chaos they created.
بعيدا عن الوطن؛ حراك التضامن مع الوطن فنا، شعرا وكتابةً
Away from Home; Memory, Art and women solidarity: you are invited to an evening of poetry and music 22/3/2017 18:30 at P21 Gallery London click here for more details
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Public meeting at The Bolivar Hall, London Sat.14/5/2016 at 15:00 IDPs : Fragmentation of Cultural and National Identity
Protest the suffering of Iraqi Christians: No to terrorism No to state terrorism.Hands off our minorities. Hands off our people. Shame on the human rights violators on all sides. Assemble 11:30 on 28/7/14 near Parliament Square, near Westminister tube station London. For more past events click here
We women of Tadhamun condemn the persisting practice of arbitrary arrests by the Iraqi security forces. We condemn their arrests of women in lieu of their men folk. These are 'inherited' practices. We are alarmed by credible media reports of the Green Zone government’s intentions of executing hundreds of Iraqi men and women.
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المقالات المنشورة على هذا الموقع لا تعكس بالضرورة آراء منظمتنا أو أعضاء منظمتنا
Samarra Minrate built in 852 AD
Building of 1 500 massive police station !
From the angle of the photo, it is possible to calculate that the complex is being built at E 396388 N 3785995 (UTM Zone 38 North) or Lat. 34.209760° Long. 43.875325°, to the west of the Malwiya (Spiral Minaret), and behind the Spiral Cafe. While the point itself may not have more than Abbasid houses under the ground, it is adjacent to the palace of Sur Isa, the remains of which can be seen in the photo. While the initial construction might or might not touch the palace, accompanying activities will certainly spread over it.Sur Isa can be identified with the palace of al-Burj, built by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil, probably in 852-3 (Northedge, Historical Topography of Samarra, pp 125-127, 240). The palace is said to have cost 33 million dirhams, and was luxurious. Details are given by al-Shabushti, Kitab al-Diyarat. Samarra was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO at the end of June. The barracks could easily have been built elsewhere, off the archaeological site.-- Alastair Northedge Professeur d'Art et d'Archeologie Islamiques UFR d'Art et d'Archeologie Universite de Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) 3, rue Michelet, 75006 Paris tel. 01 53 73 71 08 telecopie : 01 53 73 71 13 Email : Alastair.Northedge@univ-paris1.fr ou anorthedge@wanadoo.fr
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