Month: February 2014

The consensus constitution was praised by presidents of France, “Senegal, Gabon, Lebanon, Mauritania and Chad, the Algerian prime minister, Spanish Crown Prince Felipe, and several European parliamentary leaders. Conspicuously absent was any representative from fellow Arab Spring nation Egypt” … Tunisia Basks in Praise Over Its New Constitution (AP / abc News) … and the U.S.…

“The video ridiculously sets images of our crew’s laptops, cameras and mobile phones against dramatic music. People who look beyond the propaganda though will see the video shows what we have been saying all along – that our crew were journalists doing their job” – Salah Negm, director of news for Al Jazeera English: An Egyptian…

The junta signals that the prosecution of Al-Jazeera reporters is only the beginning of an assault on the foreign press … Egypt Fires a Warning Shot at the Foreign Press (Christian Science Monitor) … and a human rights attorney notes that charges against the Muslim Brothers appear to aim at the death penalty since, he…

“U.S. District Judge Charles Haight, Jr. said there was a ‘manifest’ need for further legal discovery, which could bolster the plaintiffs’ claim that the NYPD has engaged in discriminatory surveillance of Muslims”: Judge Orders NYPD to Begin Turning over Muslim Spying Documents (Huffington Post) “A land-use attorney said that the cemetery request appeared to be…