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BANGKOK -- Thai authorities threatenedto arrest Amnesty International speakers who were set to hold a news conferenceWednesday to release a report detailing allegations of torture at the hands ofthe military and police, causing the rights group to cancel the event.Beatings, suffocation by plastic bagsand electric shocks of the genitals are among the torture adidas og methods used by Thaisoldiers and police under the military government, according to the Amnestyreport, which was sent to news organizations earlier this week but was to beofficially released on Wednesday.Just before the news conference was tobegin, officials from Thailandrsquo Ministry of Labor warned Amnesty that t yeezy slide he twospeakers set to talk about the report did not possess work permits andtherefore risked arrest if either one spoke on stage. Amnesty then canceled theevent.Thailand junta arrests man for insulting kingrsquo dogWe know that the currentgovernment does not accept criticism very well, one of the slatedspeakers, Yuval Ginbar, Amnestyrsquo legal adviser, told reporters outside theroom where the news conference was to take place. But what is happeningin the unofficial places of detention - people being beaten up, people beingsuffocated, af1 people being water boarded - and what happens in police roadblockswhere suspected drug users are forced to urinate in public or are coerced intopaying bribes to get released, this is more important than what wersquo;re facinghere. Gzoq Castro turns 85 quietly but still a force in Cuba
The United States said Friday that it would like an international presence in troubled East Timor, possibly involving the United Nations, and pleaded for peace elsewhere in troubled Indonesia. The presence could be regional, it could be a U.N. presence or a mixture, a senior State Department official said following talks between visiting U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Indonesian President B.J. Habibie.Albright implored Habibie Friday not to allow East Timor to break down in bloody violence if the territory chooses independence over remaining an autonomous part of his country. A cycle of violence will not lead to a resolution, Albright said, referring to both the question of East Timor s future and June 7 parliamentary elections. What we have been supporting is a nonviolent approach and free and stanley cup fair and open elections. Habibie, in turn, v stanley thermosflasche owed not to let the territory erupt as it did in 1975, when the Portuguese abandoned what was then its colony and b stanley termohrnek efore Indonesia took over. We will not walk away, Habibie told Albright during a nearly two-hour meeting with her at the presidential palace, said a senior U.S. official who was present.Albright met afterward with Jose Alexandre Xanana Gusmao, a separatist East Timorese rebel leader now under house arrest. He revealed to her his blueprint plan for determining East Timor s future, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.Gusmao suggested elections could be held to select represent
BANGKOK -- Thai authorities threatenedto arrest Amnesty International speakers who were set to hold a news conferenceWednesday to release a report detailing allegations of torture at the hands ofthe military and police, causing the rights group to cancel the event.Beatings, suffocation by plastic bagsand electric shocks of the genitals are among the torture adidas og methods used by Thaisoldiers and police under the military government, according to the Amnestyreport, which was sent to news organizations earlier this week but was to beofficially released on Wednesday.Just before the news conference was tobegin, officials from Thailandrsquo Ministry of Labor warned Amnesty that t yeezy slide he twospeakers set to talk about the report did not possess work permits andtherefore risked arrest if either one spoke on stage. Amnesty then canceled theevent.Thailand junta arrests man for insulting kingrsquo dogWe know that the currentgovernment does not accept criticism very well, one of the slatedspeakers, Yuval Ginbar, Amnestyrsquo legal adviser, told reporters outside theroom where the news conference was to take place. But what is happeningin the unofficial places of detention - people being beaten up, people beingsuffocated, af1 people being water boarded - and what happens in police roadblockswhere suspected drug users are forced to urinate in public or are coerced intopaying bribes to get released, this is more important than what wersquo;re facinghere. Gzoq Castro turns 85 quietly but still a force in Cuba
The United States said Friday that it would like an international presence in troubled East Timor, possibly involving the United Nations, and pleaded for peace elsewhere in troubled Indonesia. The presence could be regional, it could be a U.N. presence or a mixture, a senior State Department official said following talks between visiting U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Indonesian President B.J. Habibie.Albright implored Habibie Friday not to allow East Timor to break down in bloody violence if the territory chooses independence over remaining an autonomous part of his country. A cycle of violence will not lead to a resolution, Albright said, referring to both the question of East Timor s future and June 7 parliamentary elections. What we have been supporting is a nonviolent approach and free and stanley cup fair and open elections. Habibie, in turn, v stanley thermosflasche owed not to let the territory erupt as it did in 1975, when the Portuguese abandoned what was then its colony and b stanley termohrnek efore Indonesia took over. We will not walk away, Habibie told Albright during a nearly two-hour meeting with her at the presidential palace, said a senior U.S. official who was present.Albright met afterward with Jose Alexandre Xanana Gusmao, a separatist East Timorese rebel leader now under house arrest. He revealed to her his blueprint plan for determining East Timor s future, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.Gusmao suggested elections could be held to select represent
