The Abuse of Executive Prerogative: a Purposive Difference Between Detention in Black Africa and Detention in White Racist Africa

1976 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Eddison Jonas Mudadirwa Zvobgo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Board Member ◽  
Political Prisoner ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
The West ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Maximum Security ◽  
Black Africa ◽  
Maximum Security Prison

As a lawyer, a law-teacher, a Board-member of Amnesty International (U.S.A.) and, more importantly, as an African revolutionary, matters of human rights are of grave concern to me. With racism and fascism gaining ground in the West, reactionary bourgeois chauvinism on the rampage in many of the newly liberated states in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and statist revisionist tyranny masquerading as revolutionary socialism in some of the socialist countries, few can afford ivory-tower debates involving human rights. Certainly I cannot, having spent seven years in Salisbury Maximum Security Prison as Ian Smith’s political prisoner.

Interview

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 11-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mykola Rudenko
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Prisoner ◽  
The West ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Human Rights Movement ◽  
Monitoring Group ◽  
Andrei Sakharov ◽  
Major General

At the end of last year, the Ukrainian writer, prominent human rights activist and political prisoner, Mykola Rudenko, was freed and allowed to leave the Soviet Union. A decorated war veteran who suffered a serious spinal wound at the siege of Leningrad, Rudenko enjoyed a successful career as writer, poet and playwright, and had over 20 books published. That was before he became a friend of Andrei Sakharov and Major-General Petro Hryhorenko (or, Grigorenko) in the early 1970s and joined the Soviet human rights movement. Although harassed, arrested and briefly detained in a mental hospital for becoming a member of the Soviet branch of Amnesty International, Rudenko went on to found the Ukrainian Helsinki monitoring group in November 1976. The following year he was arrested and given a twelve-year sentence of camps and internal exile. In 1980, his wife Raisa was also punished by a ten-year term for campaigning for his release. Shortly after his arrival in the West, Rudenko was interviewed for Index by Bohdan Nahaylo.

scholarly journals Analisis Cluster Pengelompokan Kepribadian Warga Binaan Pemasyarakatan di Era Revolusi Industri 4.0

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Retno Ryani Kusumawati ◽  
Hannibal Hannibal ◽  
Retika Najmamulat Asih
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Clustering Method ◽  
Maximum Security ◽  
Maximum Security Prison ◽  
Medium Security

Industrial revolution 4.0 has affected all fields, including Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights whose conducting a revitalization of correctional service where capacity was the main point of clustering is now changing into clustering based on change in behavior of the prisoners, which then used as recommendation for placing prisoners into Minimum Security, Medium Security and Maximum Security Prison. Prisoner’s Personality will show a prisoner’s tendency to behave and to think. Personality can be measured through Big Five Personality Model consisting of Openness to Experience, Concientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. To simplify the placement process, the K-Means Clustering method is used. Of 137 prisoners assessed from Rangkasbitung and Serang Prison, 27 prisoners being placed to Medium Security prison, 52 prisoners to Maximum Security prison, and 58 prisoners to Minimum Security prison.

Human rights amidst despair in the Levant and the West

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 613-623
Author(s):  
Micheline Ishay
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The West ◽  
Pendulum Swing ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Arab Spring

In 2019, protests in the streets of Algeria and Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq brought back the fragrance of the Jasmine revolution. Can the pendulum swing back towards democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa region – and in Europe? What will it take to endure? I argue three points. First, I maintain that the human rights aspirations of the Arab Spring rippled across the West in 2011 as disenfranchised groups reacted to increasing social and economic grievances. Second, I contend that the failure to counter these problems has fed a vicious cycle of religious radicalism and right-wing nationalism. Third, I argue that despite widespread Western exhaustion and an inclination to disengage from turmoil in the Middle East, current circumstances make possible new international human rights initiatives, drawn from history, to advance civil liberties, economic progress, security and gender equality in the Middle East, the West and beyond.

scholarly journals Forensic psychiatry in Israel

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-110
Author(s):  
H. Gordon ◽  
A. Zabow ◽  
L. Carpel ◽  
P. Silfen
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
The West ◽  
Maximum Security ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Maximum Security Prison ◽  
Peace And Reconciliation ◽  
Jewish Religion

In May 1995 a Conference on Forensic Psychiatry was held near Tel Aviv, to which psychiatrists and other health professionals specialising in forensic psychiatry from Britain and Israel and Palestinians from the West Bank were invited. Participants at the Conference took part in discussions on forensic psychiatry and visited a maximum security prison with a hospital wing at Ramleh and an Arab psychiatric hospital in Bethlehem on the West Bank. On the days between Conference events, the British group visited Jerusalem and the Dead Sea and became aware of the almost unique interflux between Muslim, Christian and Jewish religion and culture which underlies the historical evolution of this area of the world. The modern social and political landscape is of course characterised by a violent confrontation between Arabs and Jews yet permeated now by a growing realisation of the need for peace and reconciliation, even if this has its ambivalent aspects at times. In this context the participation of Jewish and Arab health professionals together is a sign that ultimately medical and health care has its universal qualities which can bridge over or supersede the differences between nations that are so endemic to history.

scholarly journals WHERE HAVE ALL THE REVOLUTIONARIES GONE? HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE REINVENTION OF REVOLUTION IN REBIYA KADEER’S DRAGON FIGHTER

eTopia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Lu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Prisoner ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Unique Vantage

For five and half years, Rebiya Kadeer was imprisoned as a political prisoner in China and was finally released in 2005 after Amnesty International campaigned for her release. Today, she now campaigns as a human rights activist against what many Uyghurs consider Chinese occupation of their homeland, Xinjiang. Although many organizationswork on human rights violations against the Uyghurs, Rebiya Kadeer has emerged as the primary symbol of Uyghur resistance in China, much like the Dalai Lama for Tibet.Her simultaneous position as both a human rights activist and resistance symbol offers a unique vantage point in exploring the relationship between memory, women, and nationalism. In sketching out these connections, this paper will analyze the agency and representation in the process of memory making and the gendering of resistance in relation to the life and memoir of Rebiya Kadeer. The political project of witnessing through representation offers a practical departure point for better understanding the formation of a feminine revolutionary subjectivity in contrast to the romanticized icon of the masculine, revolutionary hero. In proposing the relationship between memory, women and nationalism, this paper aims to ultimately understand whether the revolutionary subject has in effect become the human rights activist. And if this is the case, what then are the conditions for revolution, and is revolution possible within the logic of human rights discourse?

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF TERRORIST INSTITUTIONS IN SUPER MAXIMUM SECURITY (SMS) INSTITUTIONS IN PUBLIC PERSPECTIVE

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-25
Author(s):  
Rachmayanthy Rachmayanthy ◽  
Umar Anwar ◽  
Zulfikri Zulfikri
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Maximum Security ◽  
Maximum Security Prison ◽  
Public Perspective ◽  
Correctional System ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Implementation Of Coaching

The Super Maximum Scurity Penitentiary is a new Technical Implementation Unit in the ranks of prisons, which functions specifically to foster Terrorist prisoners or other high risk prisoners, the difference between this institution compared to other Correctional UPTs is that the security is very tight with one person and one prisoner cell. and the method of guidance provided to prisoners in Super Maximum Scurity (SMS) Lapas is different from other prison guidance. The issues raised in this researchare: How is the implementation of coaching terrorist prisoners in Super Maximum Security Prison based on Regulation of the Minister of Law and Human Rights No. 35 of 2018? And how is the development of terrorist inmates at Super Maximim Security Prison from a prison perspective? The theory used is by using coaching theory and descriptive qualitative research methods by direct interviews with officers of the Super Maximum Security (SMS) prison. Based on the results of the research, it is found that in the development of Terrorist inmates at the Super Maximum Security Prison, because in the implementation of the guidance, the difficulty of the prisoners' movement cannot be directly fostered by the officers having to regulate. Then coaching in terms of the goals of the correctional system can be reviewed because it is different from the goals of different systems, so it requires the best thinking and solutions so that coaching can be carried out in accordance with the objectives of the correctional system, namely prisoners are aware of mistakes, improve themselves and no longer commit acts that violate the law , are accepted by the community and can be active and productive in development and able to live their lives as good and responsible citizens.

scholarly journals The Iranian nuclear issue between the West and East.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-51
Author(s):  
Alessandro Figus
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
The West ◽  
Nuclear Issue

Abstract Nowadays, Iranian foreign policy is developing following a defensive line along three axes: nuclear energy, respect of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Peace in the Middle East. This paper analyzes the strategical role of Iran in reaction to the new Trump policies. There is international apprehension about the issue of nuclear weapons, a matter that reflects an alarming situation that could lead to the opening of a new war front.

scholarly journals CLUSTER ANALYSIS FOR GROUPING OF PRISONER PERSONALITY IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4.0 ERA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Retno Ryani Kusumawati ◽  
Retika Najmamulat Asih
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Clustering Method ◽  
Maximum Security ◽  
Maximum Security Prison ◽  
Medium Security

Industrial revolution 4.0 has affected all fields, including Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights whose conducting a revitalization of correctional service where capacity was the main point of clustering is now changing into clustering based on change in behavior of the prisoners, which then used as recommendation for placing prisoners into Minimum Security, Medium Security and Maximum Security Prison. Prisoner’s Personality will show a prisoner’s tendency to behave and to think. Personality can be measured through Big Five Personality Model consisting of Openness to Experience, Concientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. To simplify the placement process, the K-Means Clustering method is used. Of 137 prisoners assessed from Rangkasbitung and Serang Prison, 27 prisoners being placed to Medium Security prison, 52 prisoners to Maximum Security prison, and 58 prisoners to Minimum Security prison.

scholarly journals New Orientalism: Depictions of Muslims in the Canadian Media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanan Harb
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
The Other ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The West ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Press ◽  
Western Media

This paper seeks to examine the topic of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism that is currently present in reports of mainstream media and the implications it has on the lives of people in the Muslim community in Canada. The Western media has played a major role in both reviving historical Orientalist depictions of the 'other' and shaping the views of many ordinary Canadians about Muslims and people from the Middle East. Negative portrayals of Islam, and more specifically Muslims, have often been defended in the West under the principle of freedom of speech and the press, and this type of racism has been allowed to continue to exist in society under the contentious pretext of security. This paper draws on examples from two mainstream Canadian media outlets: The Toronto Star and Maclean's Magazine. The analysis of the Toronto Star is limited to articles that were published between June 2nd, 2006 and July 29th, 2008 about the Toronto 18 case. The Maclean's magazine analysis focuses on articles that were written between January 2005 and July 2006, many of which have also been at the center of a complaint before the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

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