Fatah e Hamas visando a reconciliação

Segundo a agência de notícias Ma’an, fontes palestinas declararam que, líderes do Fatah e do Hamas reuniram-se na cidade cisjordana de Nablus para analisar a implementação do plano de reconciliação.

Azzam al-Ahmad, um responsável do Fatah que supervisiona a questão da reconciliação com o Hamas, reuniu-se com Nasir al-Din al-Sha'ir, o ex-vice-primeiro-ministro do Hamas, para analisarem a questão dos prisioneiros .

As mesmas fontes afirmaram que esta reunião é o prelúdio de outras a realizar no Cairo para planear os próximos passos e anunciar a formação de um governo de transição.

«Homem Christo, vida e obra» Exposição e Conferência

Uma figura republicana interessante que sempre entendeu a Educação como a urgência maior de Portugal.  

"Instruir e aprender é a primeira e mais urgente necessidade da nação.. " in Pro-Pátria.

Eleições marcadas no Egipto

Segundo a televisão estatal egípcia, as eleições para a Assembleia do Povo, um dos poderes legislativos e o mais determinante, serão realizadas em três etapas com início a 28 de Novembro e terminando a 10 de Janeiro de 2012.

As eleições para o  Majlis Al-Choura, um conselho consultivo com poderes legislativos limitados, também serão realizadas em três etapas com início a 29 de Janeiro e terminando a 11 de Março 2012.

A primeira sessão da Assembleia do Povo terá lugar em 27 de Março de 2012 e a do Majlis Al-Choura a 24 de Março.

Uma resposta dos militares no poder (CSFA) à concentração marcada para o próximo dia 30 de Setembro, para a Praça Tahrir, onde as eleições e o seu cronograma eram as reivindicações principais?

Suspeitas de tortura em mulheres e raparigas detidas no Bahrain

Amnesty International Press release
26 September 2011

The Bahraini authorities must urgently investigate reports that women were tortured in detention after being arrested in Manama during pro-reform protests, Amnesty International said today.

Security forces arrested scores of people in the capital on Friday as protesters attempted to reach the city’s GCC Roundabout, formerly Pearl Roundabout.

Among those detained are 38 women and seven girls who were arrested at a city centre shopping mall and accused of "illegal public gathering”, rioting, and attacking security forces. They were apprehended without arrest orders, interrogated without lawyers present and some of them reportedly tortured or otherwise ill-treated.

“It appears that Bahrain’s authorities have patently denied these women and girls their rights after rounding them up at a Manama shopping centre,” said Philip Luther, Amnesty International's Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa.

“All detainees must be given access to lawyers and contact with their families.”

The detainees have not had contact with their families or adequate access to legal counsel since their arrest, and the authorities have reportedly not given them food or allowed them to pray.

Several of those in detention are ill and need medical treatment.

When their lawyers requested to attend the women’s interrogations at the Public Prosecution Office (PPO), they were told the women were not being held there.

After refusing to leave, the lawyers saw some of the women detainees being moved from one floor to another inside the building and managed to speak to some of them.

Nour al-Ghasla, 20, had bruises on her face apparently from ill-treatment in custody, and many others are believed to have been beaten by police.

After their arrest, the women were taken to two police stations in Manama before being transferred to the PPO on Saturday morning.

Following their interrogation, the PPO ordered that the 38 women be detained for 45 days, pending investigation. It is believed they are currently being held at the women's detention centre in 'Issa Town outside the capital.

The seven girls also remain in custody despite a juvenile court ordering their release today.

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I'm listening. That's it. It's that simple. As nearly any Jewish person today knows, young people aren't participating in Jewish life the way their parents and grandparents once did. And I'll be honest—as a rabbi, this worries me. The Jewish establishment tries to solve the problem by funding expensive projects to entice young people with things like free trips to Israel. At community events, organizers wring their hands when only a few young people show up. The truth is that the young Jews are there, ready to participate in Jewish life. They've always been there. And they're telling us what they want and need to be a part of this community.   We just haven't been listening. But I'm trying to change that. Starting with me, starting with you, starting now. The young Jews of Jewish Voice for Peace have made a stunning declaration of purpose that cannot be ignored.  Watch it now—and spread the word. And then read about its significance in a longer think-piece that I've written. They are telling us loud and clear: they want a Jewish community that unconditionally values all life equally. And an identity that doesn't demand that they justify taking another people's land. What they want is the values of justice that we taught them, but could never really embrace when it came to Israel and Palestine. Read what they have to say:   We exist. We are everywhere. We speak and love and dream in every language… We remember how to build our homes, and our holiness, out of time and thin air, and so do not need other people's land to do so … We refuse to have our histories distorted or erased, or appropriated by a corporate war machine. We will not call this liberation… We commit ourselves to peace. We will stand up with honest bodies, to offer honest bread…We are young Jews, and we get to decide what that means.   Better yet, watch them. And share this link with everyone you know. If you're young, Jewish, and proud, join them. If you're just proud, support them: Invite them to your synagogue (or church or school or mosque) to speak. Take them to lunch and listen, really listen. Or make a gift in honor of their efforts. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, starts tomorrow night. This New Year, I ask you—whether you are Jewish or not—when you hear a young adult knocking at your door, please open it. And listen. Shana Tovah, Rabbi Brant Rosen, Co-Chair of Rabbinical Council Jewish Voice for Peace P.S. These young people are initiating an exciting campaign, the Go & Learn Campaign, that will aim to bring 1,000 people to youth-led educational events about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement nationwide—stay tuned for when they will be in your area. Better still, send them a message of support so you can be sure to learn first about their plans.

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