Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Linked to our presentation of Again about Tortures on Jan. 16, 2006.

Added later: see his article ‘why the McCain torture ban won’t work, the Bush legacy of legalized torture’ of February 8, 2006.

See ALFRED W. McCOY’s new book: ‘Cruel Scienc – The Long Shadow of CIA Torture Research’. The photos from Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison are snapshots, not of simple brutality or a breakdown in discipline, but of CIA torture techniques that have metastasized, over the past 50 years, like an undetected cancer inside the US intelligence community.

Alfred W. McCoy – USA

From 1950 to 1962, the CIA led massive, secret research into coercion and consciousness that reached a billion dollars at peak. After experiments with hallucinogenic drugs, electric shocks, and sensory deprivation, this CIA research produced a new method of torture that was psychological, not physical–best described as « no touch torture. »

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Usha Menon is the Director of Resource Development for Asia and the Pacific, at Habitat for Humanity International; and is a Board Member of The Resource Alliance. She is recognised as one of the very few Asian resource developers with experience and expertise in both fundraising and training with multi-national and multi-cultural exposure.

Usha Menon – India

Over the past decade, she has helped launch fundraising initiatives in several countries in Asia and is a celebrated speaker and trainer on this subject. (Read more on Resource Alliance).

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Linked with Liberty.

She is Director of Liberty. She began this work in September 2003. Having originally joined Liberty in 2001 as In-house Counsel, Shami has worked on a number of Liberty’s high profile cases and has become a recognised expert on the UK’s anti-terrorism laws. Shami also assisted with Liberty’s campaigning work by contributing to the development of policy and strategy and regularly appearing as Liberty spokesperson on a wide range of issues. (Read more on LSE).

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Alfred Sirleaf is punished for educating Liberians: In a country where newspapers are a luxury for the minority that can actually read, citizen of capital Monrovia Alfred Sirleaf came up with a novel way to bring the news to the locals. Every morning he would enter the wooden shack that he called the newsroom and started sketching the day’s top stories on a rotating blackboard.

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Sorry, I could not get any photo of Alfred Sirleaf.

Making do with limited tools such as a 70s dictionary donated by a diplomat, he would craft his front page and then turn it around to face pedestrians and drivers. He, who has no formal journalism training, says: “Poverty dominates this country but that doesn’t mean that people don’t want to know what’s going on”.

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Linked to our presentation of Special Rapporteur on Torture on January 10, 2006.

Manfred Nowak – Austria

Direct from the web of the International Commission of Jurists: Prof. Manfred Nowak was elected to the Commission in May 1995.

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Wien – Florian Klenk ist « Journalist des Jahres« . Der « Falter »-Journalist, der nun für zwei Jahre den Österreich-Teil der « Zeit » macht, hat 2005 « Meilensteine » gesetzt – « wieder einmal », wie die Jury feststellt. Zum zweiten Mal hat der « Österreichische Journalist » eine Jahresbilanz der journalistischen Arbeit in diesem Land gezogen. Chefredakteure wie Herbert Lackner, Karl Amon, Andreas Unterberger haben in der Jury mitgewirkt, auch renommierte Medienjournalisten, wie Bernhard Baumgartner und Harald Fidler. Und auch Armin Wolf, « Journalist des Jahres 2004 », war in der Jury.

Siehe auch seinen Artikel in Die Zeit Nr. 52 vom 21. Dezember 2005 zum UN Sonderberichterstatter über Folter, Manfred Nowak.

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Sorry, ich fand keine Photo von Florian Klenk.

Siehe auch unseren Beitrag auf unserem NGO-Blog vom 10. Januar 2006 über die UN-NGOs-Govs-working group in Genf vom 23.Febr. – 5. März 2006.

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Linked to our presentation of The Electronic Intifada on January 8, 2006.

Laurie King-Irani is a co-founder of Electronic Intifada. She is a social anthropologist, freelance writer and journalist. She has conducted anthropological field research on local politics and family structures in Nazareth and Beirut. Former editor of Middle East Report, she now lives and works in British Columbia.

Laurie King-Irani

She edited the Middle East Report Magazine, published by the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) from 1998-2000.

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