Word: sourani
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Warning that disregard for human rights is undermining the Middle East peace process, Palestinian lawyer and founder of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Raji Sourani accused both Israel and the Palestinian Authority of violating civil rights in a somber speech Sunday afternoon at the Unitarian Church in Harvard Square...
...Sourani, a 1991 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Laureate, divided his remarks between attacks on Israel--which he said enforces a "de facto apartheid" in the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank--and the Palestinian Authority. He accused the Authority of responding to Western calls for crackdowns on militant groups by suspending due process and resorting to torture of suspected criminals...
...result is "at the end of the day, what we are having is neither human rights, democracy, peace or security," Sourani told the sympathetic audience...