{"id":168,"date":"2008-12-18T03:54:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T03:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2008\/12\/18\/statement-of-solidarity-with-iraqi-journalist-muntazir-el-zaydi-and-the-demand-for-his-release\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T03:54:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T03:54:45","slug":"statement-of-solidarity-with-iraqi-journalist-muntazir-el-zaydi-and-the-demand-for-his-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2008\/12\/18\/statement-of-solidarity-with-iraqi-journalist-muntazir-el-zaydi-and-the-demand-for-his-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Solidarity with Iraqi Journalist  Muntazir El Zaydi and the demand for his release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <!--more--> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" \/> <meta name=\"ProgId\" content=\"Word.Document\" \/> <meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\" \/> <meta name=\"Originator\" content=\"Microsoft Word 11\" \/> <link href=\"file:\/\/\/C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADMINI%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml\" rel=\"File-List\" \/> <o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"City\"><\/o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"place\"><\/o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"PlaceName\"><\/o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"PlaceType\"><\/o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" name=\"country-region\"><\/o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning\/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables\/> <w:SnapToGridInCell\/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct\/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules\/> <w:DontGrowAutofit\/> <\/w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\"> <\/w:LatentStyles> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> <object \tclassid=\"clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D\" id=ieooui><\/object> \n\n<style> st1\\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <\/style>\n\n <![endif]--><\/p>\n<style> <!-- \/* Font Definitions *\/ @font-face {font-family:Andalus; 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Bush during his fourth secret visit to <st1:city w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Baghdad<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. The undersigned declare, irrespective of the method of expression which El Zaydi used, that he was expressing the real feelings of the majority of the Iraqi people and all the Arab people and their denunciation of the aggressive policy of the <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">US<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> president George W. Bush toward the Iraqi people. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial\">This policy dictates that President Bush should stand trial for all his crimes which led to the destruction of <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, the killing of hundreds of thousands of the Iraqi people, and the displacement of one quarter of the Iraqi population whether at home or abroad. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial\">This policy has brought to <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:country-region> civil war, ugly sectarian divisions, the killing or wounding of tens of thousands of US soldiers and mercenaries, and finally the conclusion of the humiliating security agreement which infringed on the national sovereignty of <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The undersigned would like to express their profound concern over the torture and harsh treatment of the Iraqi journalist and four of his colleagues of the El Baghdadiyah Television Station. Their harsh treatment is tantamount to a blatant violation of international law and human rights, all the more so because it coincides with the celebration by the world at large of the Sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human rights. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The Jordanian Civil Society Organizations would also like to denounce the bestial beating of the Iraqi journalist by US and Iraqi security men. The Iraqi authorities have not as yet disclosed the place to which they took him. Needless to say, everyone knows the record of these authorities of torturing detainees until death.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial\">We demand the immediate release of the Iraqi journalist and call for providing all the legal guarantees for a fair trial and for the protection of the journalist&#8217;s life, which is now in danger. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial\">We also demand that his lawyers and family members be allowed to see him and to be reassured about him. We demand the safeguarding of his dignity, and providing him with the health care he needs, all the more so because the media has leaked a report that hand of the Iraqi journalist was broken. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial\">We also demand that committees of volunteers of Iraqi and Arab lawyers be allowed to act as his defense attorney and follow up the conditions of his detention. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial\">We would also want to declare that what happened was a clear message to the world that the majority of the Iraqis are refusing the American occupation. We view what the Iraqi journalist did as falling within the context of the expression of the dignity of the great country of <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:country-region> as well as the feeling of frustration and despair in view of the deteriorating conditions of a country in which more than five million Iraqi children have become orphaned because of the American occupation of <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Iraq is a country of an old and genuine civilization which has suddenly turned, due to the actions of the Bush Administration, into a collective graveyards, an arena of killing, violation of the simplest human rights, starvation, absence of electricity and potable water, loss of security and reassurance, non-availability of employment opportunities, and the spread of cholera despite the enormous oil wealth of Iraq.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Signatures in alphabetical order:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>1-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:placetype w:st=\"on\">Academy<\/st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st=\"on\">Change<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> for Democratic Studies.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>2-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:placename w:st=\"on\">Amman<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st=\"on\">Center<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> for Human Rights studies.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>3-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The Arab organization of Human rights in <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Jordan<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>4-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>The Arab Women Society.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>5-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The Center for Family Awareness and Guidance.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>6-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:placetype w:st=\"on\">Center<\/st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st=\"on\">Arab<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> Media Women.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>7-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The Club of Alumni of Universities and Institutes of the former Soviet union and the Federal Republic of Russia.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>8-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The Club of the Alumini of Iraqi Universities.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>9-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The Club of the Alumni of Egyptian Universities.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>10-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The freedoms Committee of the Jordanian Professional Unions.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>11-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The East and <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:placename w:st=\"on\">West<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st=\"on\">Center<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> for the Development of Human Resources.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>12-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The El <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:placename w:st=\"on\">Badil<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st=\"on\">Center<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> for Studies and Training.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>13-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The El faneeq Center for Economic and information Studies.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>14-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>The El Zahara&#8217; Charity Society.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>15-<span style=\"font-style: normal; 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<\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The observatory of Human and the Environment.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>29-<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The preparatory Committee for the National Union of Jordanian Workers.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.5pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>30-<span style=\"font-style: normal; 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