
Last month a poster for a new play in Melbourne about the Diary of Anne Frank was smeared with a swastika. It’s just one example of what experts say is a rising tide of racist and anti-Semitic attacks that’s headed our way.

Last month a poster for a new play in Melbourne about the Diary of Anne Frank was smeared with a swastika. It’s just one example of what experts say is a rising tide of racist and anti-Semitic attacks that’s headed our way.

A prisoner with a history of mental illness was held in solitary confinement at a prison in Virginia for over 600 days, leading to a collapse in his physical and mental condition, a new lawsuit alleges.
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To the annals of American political scandal, we must now add Sharpiegate.
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The refusal to host the wedding of a black man and a white woman was captured in a widely viewed video. The owners consulted with a pastor, and had a change of mind.

A Palestinian student who was denied entry to the US just days before he was scheduled to start classes at Harvard has been admitted to the country.
Related: Palestinian Harvard student says he was barred from US over friends’ social media posts

The prime minister’s performance on the reality of no deal works by suspension of disbelief. The EU will not indulge it
Brexit is not the first thing Boris Johnson has found difficult, but it might be the first difficult thing he cannot simply abandon. The path by which he arrived in Downing Street is strewn with jettisoned jobs, principles and relationships. He finds other people’s needs burdensome, and is used to shrugging them off. But now he is yoked to an onerous national duty. His discomfort was obvious in parliament today.
Johnson’s traditional repertoire of glibness and bluster served him poorly as his authority and his majority melted away. The first significant test of his command of the Commons resulted in humiliation. He was defeated by a majority of 27, forfeited control of the legislative agenda, desperately threw a general election gauntlet across the chamber and watched helpless as the leader of the opposition dodged it.
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The majority of America’s ambassadors to Afghanistan since the removal of the Taliban government have condemned the US approach to negotiating a troop withdrawal, warning it risked a return to “total civil war”.
Writing the day after a draft agreement was announced, the nine men, including a former deputy secretary of state, said they supported peace talks in Afghanistan.
Last week, El Salvador’s governmental Advocate for the Defense of Human Rights (Procuradora Para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, “PDDH”), Raquel Caballero de Guevara, issued a damning report concerning overwhelming evidence of extrajudicial executions by El Salvador’s national civilian police (PNC). The report which covered the period 2014-2018 examined 48 “emblematic” cases of extrajudicial killings in which security forces executed 116 people.
The report systematically gathered investigative materials on all the cases examined and was able to identify several patterns. Most often this type of killing happens in rural areas of the country. The victims are almost all male, between the ages of 15 and 24, but victims were as young as 13 and 14. More than 60% of the cases came from 2015-16 when the country’s overall homicide rate was the highest in the world.
Although police reports claimed that more than 90% of those killed were gang members, the PDDH investigation determined that in many cases that was simply not true, but the victim was simply a youth in a marginalized community where police abuse and mistreatment was rampant. The PDDH pointed to the case of “Chepe,” a disabled deaf handyman who was much beloved in his community. Chepe was murdered by a police patrol, which falsely wrote in a report that they had encountered a gang member and returned fire, killing him.
Quite often these killings happened as part of a large scale police sweep in a zone following an attack on security forces by the gangs. The report details how police operatives would descend on an area, breaking into houses, terrorizing residents, and at times, executing them.
The report roundly rejected the constant refrain by the police that these deaths had occurred in the midst of armed confrontations with gang members where police were shooting in self-defense. The average number of bullet holes in the victims was nine.
The report of the PDDH describes how police regularly covered up and lied about the events. Frequently bodies were moved, crime scenes altered, and witnesses threatened.
The report also finds a judicial system which leaves these crimes in impunity with no accountability for the police agents involved. Of the 48 cases, only 14 went to court and only 2 cases resulted in convictions. The report chastizes the attorney general’s office for weak investigations and a lack of will to pursue these cases, often dismissing the cases at the front end.
Caballero de Guevara’s term as PDDH ends soon, although she is seeking reappointment by the National Assembly. During her years in office, she has been almost entirely silent on the problem of extrajudicial killings by the police, even as human rights groups, journalists, and Agnes Callamard, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, were raising concerns. So this report marks an important change.
The report only involves cases from 2014-2018 during the prior administration of president Salvador Sánchez Cerén, and it appears that the new administration’s approach is just to ignore the report. I could find no remarks from a governmental spokesperson, from a member of the National Assembly and no mention from president Nayib Bukele since the report was issued on August 28. I found one quote from Raúl Ábrego, Secretary of Operations and Professional Responsibility of the PNC, who told El Faro that there was no pattern of illegal conduct, but only some isolated cases.
Nayib Bukele has continued the iron fist security policy of Salvador Sánchez Cerén in Bukele’s Territorial Control Plan. There has been no purge of persons or units from the PNC involved in the cases described in the PDDH report. Without a change of direction from the top of the government and the PNC, the pattern of police killing who they want and getting away with it will not end.

In these critical weeks for democracy, we must resist the actions of a phoney populist cabal in Downing Street
We will do everything possible to stop a disastrous no deal for which this Conservative government has no mandate. This is a smash-and-grab raid on our democracy, to force through no deal, which is opposed by a majority of the public.
Most people in Britain reject a Tory no-deal Brexit. Boris Johnson’s government wants to use no deal to create an offshore tax haven for the super-rich and sign a sweetheart deal with Donald Trump.
Another US soldier killed and US a step closer to deal to withdraw and leave Afghans to Taliban rule? U.S. and Taliban negotiators are close to an agreement that would reduce fighting and allow full peace talks among Afghans, a top U.S. official said on Sunday, a day after insurgent forces stormed the strategic northern city of Kunduz.
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