Kuwait targets leading rights activist

[mom cat]

Kuwait targets leading rights activist
Friday 23 July 2004, 17:45 Makka Time, 14:45 GMT

Lawmaker Walid al-Tabtabai (R) concedes rights abuse


Kuwaiti authorities are looking to arrest a leading human rights activist Khalid al-Dosari on charges of recruiting young Arab Muslims to go to Iraq for fighting US occupation forces there.

According to newspaper reports on Friday, one of four people arrested while trying to enter Iraq from Syria, named al-Dosari as having helped him in his mission.

Al-Dosari who is spokesman of the Association of Victims of Torture and Arbitrary Arrest, evaded an attempt by security forces to arrest him on Monday, Al-Siyassa daily reported.

However, al-Dosari charged on a website that authorities were after him because he had evidence of human rights violations by security services and was defending victims of abuse.

Pressure

Several Arab and international human rights groups denounced the failed attempt to arrest al-Dosari and deplored what they called the pressure exerted on "defenders of victims of torture and arbitrary arrest in Kuwait," Al-Siyassa said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B782F1C7-5EFC-47C4-92D0-EB29E4B9615C.htm

[ck4829]

1. Does it strike anyone else as odd?

Why is it that leaders of Muslim charities and Humans Rights Activists are being arrested? I think these charities and the activists are innocent. Charities/Activists and terrorists don't mix well together because the terrorists destroy, yes even in Islamic nations, the gains these good people have made for their fellow citizens.

[mom cat]

2. I have sadly concluded that peace, democracy and stability in

Iraq are what the US wants least in the region and that tha human rights' activists are feared because they might expose more on the truthe about US brutality, torture and mass murder.