{"id":138,"date":"2006-12-05T10:50:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T15:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=138"},"modified":"2006-12-05T10:50:27","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T15:50:27","slug":"news-and-analysis-120506","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/05\/06)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">Human rights in Saudi Arabia: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">&#8220;The government seems, at least at the rhetorical level, interested in reform.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/04\/AR2006120400439.html\">Human Rights Watch Starts Work in Saudi Arabia<\/a> (Washington Post\/Reuters)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ae1b19\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">Pakistan is willing to give up its claim to Kashmir if India agrees to a far-reaching self-governance plan for the Himalayan region&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/05\/AR2006120500149.html\">Pakistan Would Give Up Claim to Kashmir <\/a>(Washington Post\/AP)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">Video showing inhuman treatment of Jose Padilla released as his lawyers express concern over long-term mental health effects caused by the severe isolation and mind games:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/04\/us\/04detain.html?pagewanted=1\">Video Is a Window Into a Terror Suspect\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Isolation<\/a> (NY Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">And I thought &#8220;the most important text in American history&#8221; was the Constitution: Member of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council &#8216;compromises&#8217; saying Muslim Congressmen should at least bring a Bible with him:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/04\/AR2006120401219.html\">Group Asks Removal of Koran Swearing-In Critic<\/a> (Washington Post\/AP)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: \"Times New Roman\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights in Saudi Arabia: &#8220;The government seems, at least at the rhetorical level, interested in reform.&#8221; Human Rights Watch Starts Work in Saudi Arabia (Washington Post\/Reuters) &#8220;Pakistan is willing to give up its claim to Kashmir if India agrees to a far-reaching self-governance plan for the Himalayan region&#8221; Pakistan Would Give Up Claim to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}