Jenny’s Pennies

Swedish readers, head on over to the Amnesty Press website and read this story about the situation in the occupied Gaza and about how it is reported in the media. Not because I wrote it, but because it is damn important.
Let’s hope that the truce holds.
Also, have a look here.

I have a new article up on Amnesty Sweden’s website.

Steven Miles, M.D. works at the University of Minnesota and has written the book Oath Betrayed - torture, medical complicity and the war on terror about how medical personnel has been involved in torture and other human rights violations in the so called “war on terrorism”. My article is based on a lecture that Miles did in Stockholm in April. A shorter version of the article is also published in the new issue of Amnesty Press (#2/08).

(In that issue, there is more from me: a report from Amnesty Sweden’s general meeting 2008 and a book review of Catrin Ormestad’s Gaza - en kärlekshistoria - a highly recommended book!)

So, more work, this time in the Swedish armed forces. I don’t know if I’ll be able to blog for a week or so, but I’ll certainly try to. Meanwhile, visit the blogs in the blogroll!
Now that I’ve promoted those, here’s a little self promotion:
The first fruits of my labor this weekend can be found here.
Update: And here.

As you all have read, Cuban leader Fidél Castro announced his resignation this week. On Sunday, a new president will be appointed, most probably Fidél Castro’s brother Raul.

In the end of January, I met with Cuban dissident Héctor Palacios Ruiz and his wife Gisela Delgado in Stockholm. Héctor Palacios was among the 75 people who were arrested in a mass crackdown on the opposition in March 2003 (the arrests took place the same day as the invasion of Iraq, when the media spotlight was turned elsewhere). He is now conditionally released due to health problems.

My text (in Swedish) about Héctor and Gisela are up on the Amnesty Press website now, and a shorter version will appear in the coming print issue of the magazine.

I have a new piece up at Amnesty Press (the paper of Amnesty Sweden) about Grigorij Pasko, a Russian journalist, activist and former prisoner of conscience.
Pasko was sentenced to four years in prison for espionage and treason after having reported on how the Russian military illegally dumped radioactive waste in the Sea of Japan.
In the article, he talks about how Russian society functions (or not functions), about the Yukos-case and Michail Chodorkovskij, and about his own work and activism.
Long version available on the website, shorter version will appear in the upcoming print issue of Amnesty Press.
Read the article here (in Swedish).

More from, and about, Grigorij Pasko can be found at the blog Robert Amsterdam.