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Pakistan/South Africa: Khalid Mehmood Rashid appears after 18 months of secret detention

News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International
17 April 2007

Pakistan/South Africa: Khalid Mehmood Rashid appears after 18 months of secret detention

Amnesty International today received information from Pakistan sources that Khalid Mehmood Rashid, who disappeared after being handed over by South African government officials to agents of the Pakistan Government on 6 November 2005, appeared before the “Federal Review Board” in the Supreme Court Building in Islamabad on 12 April 2007.

Although the authorities reportedly have been ordered to transfer him to a prison in Rawalpindi and allow him access to his family and medical care, Mr Rashid was still in the custody of the Inter-services Intelligence [ISI] on 16 April.

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Philippines: GRP-MILF Peace Talks to Resume After Polls

The stalled peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front are expected to resume after the elections.

Assistant Secretary Evelyn Daplas of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process said the peace talks, which reached an impasse late last year, would resume ?as soon as possible, maybe within a month.?

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Ka Parago to AFP: Don’t Vent Ire on Civilians to Save Your Dishonor

1st Pulang Bagani Company
Merardo Arce Command
Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command
New People’s Army

Press Statement
15 April 2007

NPA to AFP Eastern Command: Don’t vent ire on civilians to save your dishonor

The 1st Pulang Bagani Company calls on the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to stop venting its ire on the people of Barangay Manay and Barangay Casilac, Panabo, Davao del Norte in order to deflect attention from the dishonor it has suffered in the NPA raid on the Davao Penal Colony.

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Philippines: Virginia Tech Massacre Magnifies Need to Keep Schools Safe — Arroyo

MANILA — Saying that schools are “sanctuaries of learning for the youth,” President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo underscored today the need to keep all school campuses safe and secure to avoid incidents such as the senseless killings that took place on Tuesday at the Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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Philippines: Gabriela Solon to IPU: ?We are being harassed?

NEWS RELEASE
18 April 2007

Reference: Rep. Liza Largoza-Maza, Gabriela Women?s Partylist (09209134540)
Cristina Palabay, GWP Secretary General (09175003879)
Gabriela Women?s Partylist Headquarters (9284007)

Gabriela solon to IPU: ?We are being harassed?

“The Arroyo administration is out to persecute and kill us and members of our political parties. It is out to disenfranchise our constituents by harassing and demonizing political parties that are gaining the support of the people as part of the political opposition.” This was the statement of Rep. Liza Maza of Gabriela Women’s Party during a meeting with members of the Inter- Parliamentary Union (IPU) this afternoon at the Westin Philippine Plaza in Manila.

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