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GCJ- Paris, 17/01/2010
It was a very bad weak for President Obama in the
Arab countries, many Human Rights Defenders attacked the new
decisions of Obama's administration on military commission,
maintaining Guantanamo and the intense screening with 14 countries
list under global security system.
Haytham Manna, great figure of the Arab human
rights movement said in KSA2 program yesterday: Forget Obama Cairo
Speech. Obama today is a President without his own political program
and without any alternative strategy. Security in itself and for
itself is not a political program; no body can imagine rebuilding
good relationship between Arab World and the States with Bush
administration politics and additional security scrutiny. The
Spokesperson of the Arab Commission for Human Rights described the
new security measures: "Discriminatory, arbitrary, a kind of
collective punishment and useless". Speaking about State Sponsors of
terrorism in this list supposed a relationship between Cuba
Communist regime and al Qaeda, or the Syrian secular regime and
radical Islam. What that means "country of interest" when you have
One Man case like Nigeria?
Friday, Haytham Manna criticized the continuity of
Guantanamo System in 2009. He qualified in BBC Arabic TV interview
the actual administration as cowardly thinking based on ad hoc
measures.
The Arab Commission for Human Rights, Global
Coordination against Guantanamo and Guantanamo Center for Justice
organized in Paris last weak a seminar in Malakoff House of
Association (Paris) About Guantanamo after 8 years with the
participation of Madam Anne-Marie Lizin, (Belgium senator and
Guantanamo Special Representative of the President of the OSCE
Parliamentary Assembly), Fausto Giudice, William Bourdon and Haytham
Manna in presence of ex-prisoners like Khaled Ben Mostafa. Many old
prisoners, like the Bosnia-Algerian Sabir Lahmar, recently released,
and Sami al Haj, had not the possibility to participate in this
event. A large poster was prepared for this occasion with the famous
sentence of Obama: "As President, I will close Guantanamo, reject
the military Commissions Act, and adhere to the Geneva Conventions".
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