The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday June 30th, 2023
Canada Decodes Law and Justice to Torture Prisoners in Solitary Confinement by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
Imagine that you are incarcerated for 20 years of which you had spent 1400 days in a solitary cell having no contacts with anyone except your prison guard. Imagine that while serving the time in a federal prison you were viciously attacked by fellow inmates in which major parts of your body got burned and yet no investigation was conducted on the matter, and you were, instead, confined to a solitary cell – the price of being attacked by other inmates. You wonder how could this happen in Canada, especially when you have not committed any terrorist act! Itmust be your worst nightmare when you realize that Canadian government wants to set an example in punishing you for your alleged involvement with terrorism.
Well, 9/11 has set new standards in justice in anti-terrorism, especially, when the alleged terrorist is a Muslim. As Glenn Greenwald (“New York Top Court Highlights the Meaningless Menace of the Term Terrorism.” The Guardian: December 16, 2012), a lawyer and internationally known American journalist who also exposed the Edward Snowden-episode to the global community, had assessed: “But that’s what has happened in the post-9/11 era: a whole new system of ‘justice’, with all new rules designed to ensure convictions and long prison terms, have been invented exclusively for those facing ‘terrorism’ charges. And since the term ‘terrorism’ has no discernible meaning other than “acts of violence committed by Arabs and/or Muslims against westerners”, this illustrates why New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal was exactly right when, under the headline ‘Liberty and Justice for non-Muslims’, he wrote:[I]t’s rarely acknowledged that the [9/11] attacks have also led to what’s essentially a separate justice system for Muslims. In this system, the principle of due process is twisted and selectively applied, if it is applied at all.”
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Dawn Rising #poem by Mbizo Chirasha
“I see many voices rising with the sun
sharp spears of the sun ,undulating with coming freedom
mother was there during liberation
i will be there for the other liberation
a revolution of million voices
voices of children of song
children of the soil
children unborn, children born”
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Maples & Oranges #04 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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