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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 3 december 2003 / Time Line December 3, 2003

2. December 2003, 4. December 2003

12/03/2003
FBI Spying on Peace Groups Chills Free Speech
From the radio newsmagazine
Between The Lines
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Critics Charge that FBI Spying on Peace Groups Chills Free Speech
- Interview with Barbara Olshansky, attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights conducted by Scott Harris
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http://www.btlonline.org/olshansky121203.ram
When the Bush administration made public its plan to invade and overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein in the summer of 2002, peace activists across America began organizing opposition to the coming war. Using the Internet and alternative media to spread the word, hundreds of new local and national anti-war groups were formed and in just a few short months came together by the hundreds of thousands to demonstrate against the march to war.
The corporate media initially marginalized their coverage of the antiwar protests until the numbers of people in the streets were just too big to ignore. But the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it appears, maintained a keen interest in these groups from the beginning. A recently leaked confidential FBI memorandum details how government agents have collected information on the tactics, training and structure of legal peace organizations and enlisted local police departments to become their eyes in ears in monitoring these groups.
Recent press reports, citing the FBI memo, have confirmed what activists and civil liberties advocates have long suspected about government surveillance of constitutionally protected political activities. In an echo of the many documented abuses of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the Bureau justifies their actions by declaring that spying on the president's political opponents is simply part of the government's post-Sept. 11 anti-terrorism measures. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Barbara Olshansky, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, who takes a critical look at the FBI's surveillance of dissidents and the chilling effect it has on free speech...

12/03/2003
Ja til atomvåben
Præsident Bush har underskrevet en lov, der tillader forskning i en ny generation af atomvåben, noterer Information.

12/03/2003
Militærnægter får ret til at føre sag
En mand, der nægtede at gøre tjeneste i den serbiske hær, har fået lov til at føre retssag mod Flygtningenævnet, som ikke vil give ham asyl. Det er Højesteret, der i en opsigtsvækkende dom tirsdag støtter militærnægteren.
Det var i 1999, at den jugoslaviske statsborger blev indkaldt til at gøre tjeneste i den serbiske hær. Han skulle møde et sted, hvorfra soldater blev sendt til Kosovo for at gøre krigstjeneste. Da han ikke mødte frem, blev han idømt fængsel i to år.
Herhjemme har Flygtningenævnet nægtet at give ham asyl. Straffen på to års fængsel er ikke så streng, at den kan sidestilles med forfølgelse, mener myndighederne. Men asylansøgeren og hans advokat mener, at Flygtningenævnet overså et vigtigt argument: Nemlig at han nægtede at deltage i de militære overgreb på civilbefolkningen, og at disse overgreb var blevet fordømt af det internationale samfund, skriver ritzaus Bureau..

12/03/2003

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