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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 21. januar 2005 / Time Line January 21, 2005

20. Januar 2005, 22. Januar 2005

01/21/2005
Rumsfeld Scraps Munich Visit Over War Probe
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_id=16014&name=Rumsfeld+scraps+Munich+visit+over+war+probe
Munich, Germany (DPA) -- United States Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has cancelled a planned visit to Munich, informing the German government via the US embassy that he will not take part in a Security Conference there in February, conference head Horst Teltschik said.
This transpires after the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a complaint with the Federal German Prosecutor's Office against Rumsfeld in December, accusing him of war crimes and torture in connection with the notorious abuses and torture of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Rumsfeld made it known immediately after the complaint was filed that he would not attend the Munich conference unless Germany quashed the legal action.
It its written filing, the CCR alleges violations of German legislation which outlaws war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide independent of the place of crime or origin of the accused. The prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe, Germany is reportedly examining the roughly 170-page complaint to see if an investigation is warranted.
The CCR further said that it and four Iraqis tortured in US custody had filed a complaint with German authorities against Rumsfeld, former CIA director George Tenet, and eight other senior military and civilian officials over abuses at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq.
Editor: Read the text of the lawsuit filed by the CCR at,
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp

01/21/2005
Peace Activists Appeal City's Denial of Permit to March on War's 2nd Anniversary
This work is in the public domain. This Wednesday, anti-war activists will appeal the City of Chicago's denial of their permit request to march from Oak Street down Michigan Ave. on March 19 to mark the second anniversary of the Iraq war. As it did last year, the City has once again sought to deny peace activists their legal right to rally in the Gold Coast and is seeking to force them instead to march down side streets with little traffic -- a move activists says isolates their message and undercuts their rights to free speech and public assembly at a time that First Amendment rights are under increasing attack, writes Chicago Indymedia.

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