In a ruling that could be of interest to anti-debt campaigners, a judge has ruled that a company pursuing debts could fall foul of the Protection from Harassment Act.
British Gas had argued that their conduct was not illegal because it lacked a single controlling mind and they were not aware of it. These arguments were rejected and they settled the case.
Teheran, Feb 25 (Prensa Latina) Iran has carried out Wednesday a series of tests to set the Bushehr nuclear station, built in cooperation with Russia and adapted to international rules on the matter, Iranian authorities reported. Mokhsen Delaviz, spokesman of the Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO), stated that the test of the referred plant took place in the south-western city of Bushehr, in the presence of national and foreign officials. State Russian nuclear energy agency chief Sergei Kiriyenko and IEAO president Gholam Reza Aghazadeh visited the facility provided with a reactor capable of generating 1.000 megawatts and supervised controls made for some equipment. According to Delaviz, the test included injection of virtual instead of nuclear fuel, made of lead and designed to imitate the necessary enriched uranium with which the reactor will work. Kiriyenko concluded today works to implement the generating plant located in the Persian Gulf, but stated the plant enters now a new stage of complex procedures until its full coming into force. Iranian authorities think to open the central atomic plant by late this year, although the exact date will be announced during the current testing process, the IEAO reported.
Last Sunday Moroccan police in the occupied Western Sahara detained a young Saharawi girl and raped her for standing up against the Moroccan occupation. First they interrogated her, then they molested her and finally the policemen sodomize her with their truncheons. All in the presence of higher ranking officers. They even threatened to kill her if she made her story public. Despite the threats on her life the 16-year old girl made contact with Saharawi human rights organisations in the occupied territory which recorded her testimony, and the information has also been independently verified by the Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara. This is her statement:
Sunday 22 February 2009 c. 19h00, Maatallah, El Ayoun / Western Sahara
Walking through the Maatallah district [El Ayoun, Moroccan occupied Western Sahara] I was surprised by six plain clothed policemen in the company of the well-known torturer Mohamed El Hassouni, known as "the Moustache", who forced me into their vehicle. When we arrived near the Allal ben Adellah school they covered my eyes and handcuffed me behind my back. I asked the policemen for the reason of this detention and one of them, known as El Aalaoui, told me that I had broken the law by attending a meeting with human rights activists. This included the last meeting with Michèle Decaster( from the French solidarity organisation AFASPA), in the presence of my friend Nguia El Haoussi.
All along the drive I was hit and kicked by the policemen in the vehicle, and I became very emotionally upset. I realized after a while that some Saharawi youths had started following us when they saw that a young Saharawi girl was being abducted. At this moment, the policemen threw me to the floor and covered my mouth with their hands.
The students of the occupation of United College in St Andrews have announced victory after receiving a statement and accompanying assurances to review and investigate ties with Israel in light of the recent conflict in Gaza from the University today.
"as Binyam embarks on his long “road to recovery” [...] it is unlikely that the media will, in general, manage to report much of the man behind the myth that has grown up around him.
To that end, I thought it appropriate to relate a few anecdotes that bring Binyam the human being, rather than Binyam the prisoner, to life."
"...extraordinary detail quite how farcical Guantánamo’s rigged trial system was, and how it was exploited mercilessly by Binyam, who arranged for Stafford Smith to get him “a proper type of Islamic dress,” dyed orange (he wanted a Dutch football shirt, but Reprieve couldn’t find one), to make a clear visual statement in court that he was no ordinary defendant and this was no ordinary trial."
Around 350 people attended or visited the fantastic Stop the War Coalition Scotland Conference on Saturday. Palestine and the recent wave of student occupations in support of Gaza were a major theme of the Conference, with student activists attending from all over the country.
Teheran, Feb 25 (Prensa Latina) Iran has carried out Wednesday a series of tests to set the Bushehr nuclear station, built in cooperation with Russia and adapted to international rules on the matter, Iranian authorities reported. Mokhsen Delaviz, spokesman of the Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO), stated that the test of the referred plant took place in the south-western city of Bushehr, in the presence of national and foreign officials. State Russian nuclear energy agency chief Sergei Kiriyenko and IEAO president Gholam Reza Aghazadeh visited the facility provided with a reactor capable of generating 1.000 megawatts and supervised controls made for some equipment. According to Delaviz, the test included injection of virtual instead of nuclear fuel, made of lead and designed to imitate the necessary enriched uranium with which the reactor will work. Kiriyenko concluded today works to implement the generating plant located in the Persian Gulf, but stated the plant enters now a new stage of complex procedures until its full coming into force. Iranian authorities think to open the central atomic plant by late this year, although the exact date will be announced during the current testing process, the IEAO reported.
The students of the occupation of United College in St Andrews have announced victory after receiving a statement and accompanying assurances to review and investigate ties with Israel in light of the recent conflict in Gaza from the University today. 
STRAW VETOES IRAQ WAR FOI REQUEST
