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It has been a long time coming for Delwar Hossein Sayeedi.

The investigation agency formed to probe the war crimes cases on Monday finalised the first-ever investigation report, pressing charges against Jamaat-e-Islami’s nayeb-e-amir, Delwar Hossain Sayedee.
The 4,074-page report in 15 volumes — the 77-page investigation report in one volume that proposes formal charges and the 3,997-page [...]

The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
–Hubert Humphrey
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Writing in The New York Times, Rick Perlstein notes [...]

Abu Faris, a regular Harry’s Place commenter, has begun blogging from Cairo.
Check it out.

Neil Jameson is the founder of London Citizens, a “community alliance” of religious and social groups.
Junaid Ahmed is a deputy chair and a trustee of London Citizens, which lists him as a representative of the East London Mosque. He is also an activist and trustee for the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE). [...]

On the heels of talk of escalating commitment to the fighting in Libya with the deployment of attack helicopters from the UK and France, and the growing consensus that Gaddafi and his forces will not be dislodged by bombing alone, Al-Jazeera has footage of armed Western troops on the front line with rebels near Misrata.
It [...]

This is a cross post by Dan Sheldon, the Campaigns Director of the Union of Jewish Students
That the UCU has chosen to condemn and disassociate itself from the EUMC Working Definition of Antisemitism is no surprise. Infact, that’s probably one of the worst aspects of this whole saga – that such a policy position has been [...]

A charity is often a very good cause.  Whether it be assisting the aged, abused children, mentally handicapped, a repair for a local place of worship,  cancer research, starving kids in Africa, or a plethora of other causes, we can understand why someone is shaking a tin for loose coins or requesting a cheque, a [...]

Although the result was fully expected, it was still extremely depressing to read David Hirsh’s report of the debate which has just taken place at Congress.  Here is the text of Motion 70.
“Congress notes with concern that the so-called ‘EUMC working definition of antisemitism’, while not adopted by the EU or the UK [...]

It should be the measure of the eating habits in a country to consider the sources for E. coli poisoning. Whereas the fondness in Scotland for processed meat products has been linked to the higher than UK-wide incidence of cases, the popularity of ‘organic’ vegetables has been identified as the cause of the current German [...]

This is a guest post by Peter Tatchell, who reports from the Moscow Gay Pride protest group on Saturday 28 May 2011.
We witnessed a high level of fraternisation and collusion between neo-Nazis and the Moscow police. I saw neo-Nazis leave and re-enter police buses parked on Tverskaya Street by City Hall. Russian TV presenter on [...]