December 25, 2020
KARACHI/WASHINGTON: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday struck down preventive detention of British nationality holder Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh and three others who were continuously detained for the last nine months under anti-terrorism law despite their acquittal in the US journalist Daniel Pearl s kidnapping and murder charges by the appellate court.
The court ordered none of the detenue shall be placed under any preventive detention order by the federal or provincial governments or by any law enforcement agencies without permission of the court. The court, however, ordered that names of the detainees shall be placed under the Exit Control List until such time as state appeals against their acquittal have been decided by the Supreme Court. The court took an exception over conduct of the home secretary and observed that the home secretary issued preventive detention order against the detainees merely on receiving information by a DIG police that the petitione
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Event will take place on 12/27/2020 at 3 PM-5 PM PT over Zoom
Warm and militant greetings! We invite you to join BAYAN Seattle and International League of People’s Struggle Seattle to recognize and pay tribute to the martyrs killed by the U.S.-backed Duterte regime and learn about the 52 year civil war between the communist-led revolutionary underground movement and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines. Please share with your organization’s membership and on social media.
Below is additional context for why we’re hosting this event.
Within this past year, the US-backed Duterte regime’s war on the Filipino masses has only intensified. The Philippine government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was to implement a military-enforced lockdown and quarantine arrests, rather than provide healthcare, PPEs, and mass testing. They abandoned overseas migrant workers, especially J-1 workers and seafarers, who were stranded abroad without any economic aid or support. I
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An Interview with Bill Fletcher by E. San Juan, Jr.
Amid the horrendous pandemic ravaging of the globalized political-economy of Europe and North America, particularly the imperial U.S. heartland with close to half-a-million deaths, peripheral nations remain negligible. The neoliberal consensus has collapsed, inaugurating a new era of trade wars and ecological disasters. Such “shithole” countries like the Philippines, to use President Trump’s rubric, rarely enter public attention.
For over half a century, the Philippines was the only U.S. colony in Asia now a neocolony trumpeted as “a showcase of democracy” during the Cold War years. Since 1946, the U.S. has provided huge amounts of military aid to suppress popular rebellions of peasants and workers. During the Marcos dictatorship, Pentagon counter-insurgency measures buttressed the exploitative minority rule of oligarchic compradors and landlords, intensifiying the chronic crisis of the backward, underdeveloped system.