Khaled el-Masri, unjustly imprisoned and tortured by American CIA

The video above provides a background on the case and a personal account from the victim of false imprisonment and abduction. This crime has been ceaselessly ignored by the American government. The government has been denying any culpability of the incident and refusing to hear the case, but that time has ended.

This morning, the cover-up ended. The European Court of Human Rights held that Mr. Masri’s forcible disappearance, kidnapping and covert transfer without legal process to United States custody nine years ago violated the most basic guarantees of human decency. Notably, the court found that the treatment suffered by Mr. Masri in 2003 “at the hands of the special C.I.A. rendition team,” at an airport in Skopje, the capital of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, “amounted to torture.”

Paul Kahn: Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror and Sovereignty (Law, Meaning and Violence)

“In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of pre-modern states. In a startling argument, he contends that law will never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to political theology, which reveals that torture and terror are, essentially, forms of sacrifice. Kahn forces us to acknowledge what we don’t want to see: that we remain deeply committed to a violent politics beyond law.”

Free Pussy Riot!

Free Pussy Riot!

Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist performance art group formed in late 2011. Three alleged members of the group were detained for “hoolaganism”, now only two are imprisoned. They face 2 years prison time for their protest for human rights. More information can be obtained from this awesome website and their About page.