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...Human rights activists say that systematic police brutality is part of the Egyptian security apparatus, and has been on the rise. Torture became widespread in the early 1990s, but was focused on Islamist militants and their families. More recently, though, non-political detainees have also begun to report being tortured as police seek to extract confessions in criminal cases. Activists were enraged last week when an Interior ministry official in an interview to the daily Masri El Youm newspaper blamed independent media for exaggerating torture issues admitting that "the percentage of torture in Egypt over the past few months...
That’s not to say his work in the lab wasn’t fruitful. He has recounted meeting a Grinnell co-ed, Carol Martinson, “over the melting point apparatus in a make-up Organic Chemistry lab.” They would go on to marry and have two daughters...
...reps for practical information. Someone has to show the doctors the new stuff they can prescribe, or the new procedures they can do using new medical equipment. "Well, that's why there are laws about continuing medical education (CME)," you might say. The problem is that the CME apparatus is ungainly and practically impossible to standardize. As an orthopedist, I can get all the CME I need listening to lectures on handwashing and diversity sensitivity - and then poison my next patient with the wrong dose of a new drug...
...second Gulf War drove Saddam from Baghdad and power and into the spider hole. In the interim, his Baathist apparatus and military were dismantled. His family dispersed. His heirs, the despicable Uday and Qusay, were killed while fugitives in Iraq. Two years after his arrest, Saddam was put on trial for war crimes before the newly re-constituted Iraqi High Tribunal. In November he was convicted of genocide for ordering the executions of 148 men and boys in response to a 1982 assassination attempt in the town of Dujail. The Dujail trial introduced witnesses and an extensive document trail that...
...marginalized.” Aghazadeh, who leads the Umid opposition party, said that he has experienced political repression first hand—he was jailed in 2003 after participating in protests following the election that year. “The government is capable and willing to use its oppressive apparatus, and I’m saying this from the perspective of a man who has been jailed,” he said...