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...lack of protection for free speech and the politicization of the security services and judiciary in Kurdistan were made apparent by the case of Dr. Kamal Said Qadir, a jailed law professor and journalist. Dr. Kamal, who is also an Austrian citizen, criticized Masoud Barzani, who is both the President of Iraqi Kurdistan and the head of the KDP, and other members of the Barzani family, calling them "traitors to the Kurdish issue" in articles published on an opposition website run by Kurdish expatriates. When Dr. Kamal returned to Erbil last October, he was arrested and tried in secret...
...Kamal's sentence is likely to be drastically reduced after appeal. In an interview, Barzani to TIME that the laws under which he was charged need to be changed. Says Barzani: "Although he has been very aggressive and libelous against me personally I have forgiven him personally for what he has written about me and ask other people whom he has been writing against to forgive him as well." Still, the treatment given to Dr. Kamal sent a clear signal to journalists and government critics. "There are red lines that you cannot cross," said Saman Fawzi Omer, a professor...
...over the world's economic, social and political problems. The search for creative solutions. The schmoozing. The parties. And, this year, the waft of curry overpowering the heavy Schweizerdeutsch fare. India everywhere, said the signs, and it was. The Finance Minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, and the Commerce and Industry Minister, Kamal Nath, turned up from Delhi, as did the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission and a cluster of top Indian chief executives. An organization called the India Brand Equity Foundation left pashminas in the hotel rooms of all attendees and distributed Apple iPod Shuffles with prerecorded Indian pop music...
...will begin to decline in the next 10 years. Meanwhile, India's youthfulness?350 million of its citizens are under age 15?ensures its workforce will expand for decades, potentially enabling it to outstrip China's economic pace through sheer weight of numbers. "This is a key thing," said Kamal Nath, India's Minister for Commerce and Industry. "China is aging faster than any other country in history. It is growing old before it has grown rich." It's one surprising side effect of Beijing's brutal efficiency that may eventually work to India's competitive advantage...
...entire nation for the transgressions of the leadership. That?s why Rice, speaking at an international conclave on democracy in Bahrain Saturday, departed from her usual rhetoric about Syrian support of terrorism to accuse the regime of abusing its own people. She cited Syria?s recent arrest of dissident Kamal Labwani. Afterwards, she told associates, she was deeply moved when a Syrian human rights activist came up to her, kissed her cheek and said, ?Thank you for not forgetting...