Immigration: the European Court of Human Rights opens proceedings against Italy

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has informed us (Secondo Protocollo Italy) today that it has opened the proceedings No 47645/09 against the Government of the Italian Republic granting our complaint on refusal of asylum seekers. You can read the press release here

Kurdistan world: opposition participation and significance of election; a view on the last Kurdistan elections

By Aso Ali - According to literature of democracy and pluralism, the importance of people participation in political arena generally and election especially is not just to make a good government which is some time not the case at all. It is true that when people have a say in putting those who rule them in power, the government has more legitimacy in form of a political capital on which the ruling group depends in its rule. But more that, in the modern world election is seen as an effective channel through which the resentment and discontent of the public with the incumbents can be expressed peacefully. It is this demobilization of mass dissatisfaction with a certain ruling group which periodic elections are intended to perform. Here, we can repeat what founders of modern democracy have said: democracy replaces bullet with ballot.

Woman's Case Reflects Prisoners' Treatment In Iran

(From AP)-The interrogator politely apologized for grilling the prisoner about her role in the mass protests over Iran's disputed presidential election.