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United States District Court for the District of Columbia
UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL NOTICE GIVEN NO EARLIER THAN 7:00 PM EDT ON SATURDAY 9 JULY 2016 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CATHLEEN COLVIN, individually and as Civil No. __________________ parent and next friend of minors C.A.C. and L.A.C., heirs-at-law and beneficiaries Complaint For of the estate of MARIE COLVIN, and Extrajudicial Killing, JUSTINE ARAYA-COLVIN, heir-at-law and 28 U.S.C. § 1605A beneficiary of the estate of MARIE COLVIN, c/o Center for Justice & Accountability, One Hallidie Plaza, Suite 406, San Francisco, CA 94102 Plaintiffs, v. SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC, c/o Foreign Minister Walid al-Mualem Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kafar Soussa, Damascus, Syria Defendant. COMPLAINT Plaintiffs Cathleen Colvin and Justine Araya-Colvin allege as follows: INTRODUCTION 1. On February 22, 2012, Marie Colvin, an American reporter hailed by many of her peers as the greatest war correspondent of her generation, was assassinated by Syrian government agents as she reported on the suffering of civilians in Homs, Syria—a city beseiged by Syrian military forces. Acting in concert and with premeditation, Syrian officials deliberately killed Marie Colvin by launching a targeted rocket attack against a makeshift broadcast studio in the Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs where Colvin and other civilian journalists were residing and reporting on the siege. 2. The rocket attack was the object of a conspiracy formed by senior members of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (the “Assad regime”) to surveil, target, and ultimately kill civilian journalists in order to silence local and international media as part of its effort to crush political opposition. -
2018 DG Report on the Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity
CI-18/COUNCIL-31/6/REV 2 2018 DG Report on the Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity INTRODUCTION This report is submitted to the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) in line with the Decision on the Safety of Journalists and the issue of Impunity adopted by the Council at its 26th session on 27 March 2008, and renewed at subsequent sessions in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016. In its latest Decision, adopted in November 2016, the IPDC Council urged Member States to “continue to inform the Director-General of UNESCO, on a voluntary basis, on the status of the judicial inquiries conducted on each of the killings condemned by the Director-General”. The present report provides an analysis of the cases of killings of journalists and associated media personnel that were condemned by the Director-General in 2016 and 2017. It also takes stock of the status of judicial enquiries conducted on each of the killings recorded by UNESCO between 2006 and 2017, based on information provided by Member States. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Executive Summary 2 2. Background and Context 2 3. Journalists’ killings in 2016 and 2017: key findings 7 3.1 Most dangerous regions 8 3.2 Rise in number of women journalists among fatalities 9 3.3 Highest number of killings among TV journalists 11 3.4 Majority of victims are local journalists 11 3.5 Freelance and staff journalists 12 3.6 More killings occurring in countries with no armed conflict 12 4. Member States’ responses: status of the judicial enquiries on cases of journalists killed from 2006 to end 2017 13 4.1 Decrease in Member State response rate to Director-General’s request 18 4.2 Slight reduction in impunity rate, but 89% of cases remain unresolved 19 4.3 Member States reporting on measures to promote safety of journalists and to combat impunity 22 5. -
Photography Exhibition ‘This Place’ Will Be Presented by Tang Teaching Museum in Collaboration with Museums at Colgate, Hamilton and Ualbany
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College For Immediate Release Photography Exhibition ‘This Place’ will be presented by Tang Teaching Museum in collaboration with museums at Colgate, Hamilton and UAlbany The Tang to feature work by Wendy Ewald, Gilles Peress, Stephen Shore, Nick Waplington that explores Israel and the West Bank SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (December 12, 2017) — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College is leading a four-campus exhibition of This Place, which features more than 600 images by twelve internationally acclaimed photographers who explore the personal and public spaces in Israel and the West Bank. Opening February 3 through April 22, 2018, the Tang’s presentation will feature work by four of the twelve photographers, who each took different approaches, highlighting how photography can illuminate multiple perspectives on a complex topic: Wendy Ewald, taught and photographed children and adults in fourteen communities in Israel and the West Bank in their homes and villages, collecting tens of thousands of digital images, a selection of which is on display at the Tang Museum; Gilles Peress photographed the Road of Patriarchs from Hebron to Jerusalem and the Palestinian village of Silwan in East Jerusalem, areas he considers to be fault lines in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Stephen Shore used a his 8 x 10 view camera and a digital camera to photograph landscapes and cityscapes, sacred places, street scenes, and community; and Nick Waplington created a photographic survey of Jewish settlements in the West Bank through both family portraits and images of the natural and built environment. -
Macron Leaks” Operation: a Post-Mortem
Atlantic Council The “Macron Leaks” Operation: A Post-Mortem Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer The “Macron Leaks” Operation: A Post-Mortem Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer ISBN-13: 978-1-61977-588-6 This report is written and published in accordance with the Atlantic Council Policy on Intellectual Indepen- dence. The author is solely responsible for its analysis and recommendations. The Atlantic Council and its donors do not determine, nor do they necessarily endorse or advocate for, any of this report’s conclusions. June 2019 Contents Acknowledgments iv Abstract v Introduction 1 I- WHAT HAPPENED 4 1. The Disinformation Campaign 4 a) By the Kremlin media 4 b) By the American alt-right 6 2. The Aperitif: #MacronGate 9 3. The Hack 10 4. The Leak 11 5. In Summary, a Classic “Hack and Leak” Information Operation 14 6. Epilogue: One and Two Years Later 15 II- WHO DID IT? 17 1. The Disinformation Campaign 17 2. The Hack 18 3. The Leak 21 4. Conclusion: a combination of Russian intelligence and American alt-right 23 III- WHY DID IT FAIL AND WHAT LESSONS CAN BE LEARNED? 26 1. Structural Reasons 26 2. Luck 28 3. Anticipation 29 Lesson 1: Learn from others 29 Lesson 2: Use the right administrative tools 31 Lesson 3: Raise awareness 32 Lesson 4: Show resolve and determination 32 Lesson 5: Take (technical) precautions 33 Lesson 6: Put pressure on digital platforms 33 4. Reaction 34 Lesson 7: Make all hacking attempts public 34 Lesson 8: Gain control over the leaked information 34 Lesson 9: Stay focused and strike back 35 Lesson 10: Use humor 35 Lesson 11: Alert law enforcement 36 Lesson 12: Undermine propaganda outlets 36 Lesson 13: Trivialize the leaked content 37 Lesson 14: Compartmentalize communication 37 Lesson 15: Call on the media to behave responsibly 37 5. -
Hitler from American Ex-Pats' Perspective
THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • MARCH 2012 Hitler From American Ex-Pats’ Perspective EVENT PREVIEW: MARCH 19 by Sonya K. Fry There have been many history books written about World War II, the economic reasons for Hitler’s rise to power, the psychology of Adolf Hitler as an art student, and a myriad of topics delving into the phenome- non that was Hitler. Andy Nagorski’s new book Hitlerland looks at this time frame from the perspective of American expatriates who lived in Andrey Rudakov Germany and witnessed the Nazi rise Andrew Nagorski to power. In researching Hitlerland, Na- Even those who did not take Hitler for the Kremlin. gorski tapped into a rich vein of in- seriously, however, would concede Others who came to Germany cu- dividual stories that provide insight that his oratory skills and charisma rious about what was going on there into what it was like to work or travel would propel him into prominence. include the architect Philip Johnson, in Germany in the midst of these Nagorski looks at Charles Lind- the dancer Josephine Baker, a young seismic events. berg who was sent to Germany in Harvard student John F. Kennedy Many of the first-hand accounts 1936 to obtain intelligence on the and historian W.E.B. Dubois. in memoirs, correspondence and in- Luftwaffe. Karl Henry von Wiegand, Andy Nagorski is an award win- terviews were from journalists and the famed Hearst correspondent was ning journalist with a long career at diplomats. There were those who the first American reporter to meet Newsweek. -
UNESCO Condemns Killing of Journalists Assassinated Journalists in 2012
UNESCO Condemns Killing of Journalists Assassinated Journalists in 2012 Summary Total condemnations: 124 cases Local journalists killed: 118 Foreign journalists killed: 6 Female journalists killed: 5 Male journalists killed: 119 Journalists killed in Africa: 26 Journalists killed in Arab Region: 50 Journalists killed in Asia and the Pacific: 26 Journalists killed in Central and Eastern Europe: 1 Journalists killed in LAC: 21 Journalists killed in Western Europe and North America: 0 Haidar al-Sumudi (Syrian) Syrian TV cameraman Killed on 22 December 2012 in Syria [UNESCO Statement] Kazbek Gekkiyev (Russian) Television news presenter for the All-Russia State Television and Radio Company (VGTRK) Killed on 5 December 2012 in Russian Federation [UNESCO Statement] [Response from Member State 2016] (in Russian) Isaiah Diing Abraham Chan Awol (South Sudanese) Columnist Killed on 5 December 2012 in South Sudan [UNESCO Statement] Naji Asaad (Syrian) Journalist for Tishreen Newspaper Killed on 4 December 2012 in Syria [UNESCO Statement] 1 UNESCO Condemns Killing of Journalists Assassinated Journalists in 2012 Saqib Khan (Pakistani) Photojournalist for Dunya News TV Killed in November 2012 in Pakistan [UNESCO Statement] Guillermo Quiroz Delgado (Colombian) Journalist for the cable TV news programme Notisabanas and El Meridiano newspaper Killed on 27 November 2012 in Colombia [UNESCO Statement] Eduardo Carvalho (Brazilian) Owner and editor of the Ultima Hora News website Killed on 21 November 2012 in Brazil [UNESCO Statement] [Member State's Response -
Overview of the ECAL Off-Detector Electronics of the CMS Experiment R
Overview of the ECAL Off-Detector Electronics of the CMS Experiment R. Alemany§,C.B.Almeida‡,N.Almeida§, M. Bercher¶, R. Benetta†,V.Bexiga‡, J. Bourotte¶, Ph. Busson¶,N. Cardoso§, M. Cerrutti¶,M.Dejardin∗, J.-L. Faure∗, O. Gachelin∗, M. Gastal†, Y. Geerebaert¶, J. Gilly¶,Ph.Gras∗, M. Hansen†,M.Husejko∗∗, A. Jain§, A. Karar¶, K. Kloukinas†, C. Ljuslin†, P. Machado‡,I.Mandjavidze∗,M. Mur∗, P. Paganini¶, N. Regnault¶,M.Santos‡,J.C.D.Silva§,I.Teixeira‡,J.P.Teixeira‡, J. Varela§,P. Verrecchia∗, L. Zlatevski¶ ∗DAPNIA, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, email: [email protected] †PH, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland ‡ID, INESC, Lisboa, Portugal §LIP, Lisboa, Portugal ¶LLR, CNRS-IN2P3/Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France E. Andronikashvili Institute of Physics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia ∗∗Warsaw University of Technologie, Warsaw. Poland Abstract— Located between the on-detector front-end electron- electronics must resist to the stringent radiation conditions of ics and the global data acquisition system (DAQ), the off-detector the detector area. electronics of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) is The information from the electromagnetic calorimeter is used involved in both detector readout and trigger system. Working at 40MHz, the trigger part must, within 10 clock cycles, receive and by the level one trigger (LV1) together with the hadronic deserialise the data of the front-end electronics, encode the trigger calorimeter and the muon subdetector information. primitives using a non linear scale, assure time alignment between For the LV1 decision, the ECAL is read with a coarse channels using a histogramhistogramingming technique and send granularity: in the case of the barrel, 25 times coarser than the trigger primitives to the regional trigger. -
How the Assad Regime Tracked and Killed Marie Colvin for Reporting on War Crimes in Syria Photo: AFP/Getty Images
TARGET: JOURNALIST How the Assad Regime Tracked and Killed Marie Colvin for Reporting on War Crimes in Syria Photo: AFP/Getty Images Johnny Dwyer, Ryan Gallagher April 9 2018, 7:49 a.m. It is a horrifying artifact of our digital era: a jumpy 18-minute-and-49- second cellphone video of a Skype call. Glimpses of an Arabic-language keyboard and laptop screen can be seen as the audio plays through tinny speakers. We hear panicked shouts in Arabic, the crack of explosions finding their way closer, a woman’s voice shouting. A man yells in English: “I’m hit! I need a tourniquet on my leg. I can’t move.” The video captures the frantic final moments of journalists Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik. The two were struck by a rocket on the morning of February 22, 2012, in the neighborhood of Baba Amr in Homs, Syria. It was the beginning of that country’s civil war, which has now stretched into seven years of devastating violence. In federal court in Washington, D.C., on Monday, the video was submitted as a key piece of evidence in a lawsuit accusing the Syrian government of targeting and murdering Colvin, a U.S. citizen raised on Long Island, as she sought to cover the war. The Colvin family filed the video and nearly 2,000 pages of documents, including military intelligence memoranda and testimony from Syrian defectors, as part of a federal civil lawsuit against the Syrian government. The documents provide detailed and unprecedented evidence to support the claim that Colvin was deliberately hunted and killed as part of a policy by the Assad regime to eliminate journalists. -
DP 15Ans Centre Andre Malraux.Indd
DOSSIER DE PRESSE Le Centre André Malraux de Sarajevo Fondé pendant le siège de Sarajevo, incarnation d’une « certaine idée de la France », fidèle à l’engagement intellectuel et moral qui a présidé à sa création, le Centre André-Malraux est le cœur de la présence culturelle française en Bosnie- Herzégovine. Le Centre André-Malraux fête aujourd’hui son quinzième anniversaire. De nombreuses manifestations, en France et en Bosnie-Herzégovine, célèbrent l’événement. A cette occasion, Jorge Semprun, président de l’association Paris- Sarajevo-Europe et Francis Bueb, directeur du Centre André Malraux, vous invitent soutenir cet événement pour permettre au Centre André-Malraux de poursuivre son œuvre et de la développer. « …il y a dans cet entêtement une leçon de fidélité et de morale … » Bernard-Henri Lévy « Il nous semble que Sarajevo, foyer toujours brûlant de l’histoire européenne, peut constituer un observatoire privilégié, et un des lieux d’élaboration de l’Europe de demain. » Jean-Marie Laclavetine « … les histoires doivent toujours continuer. (…) imaginez ce que serait Sarajevo sans le Centre André Malraux (…) Ou sans l’histoire elle-même. L’idée de ne pas témoigner est presque insupportable. Quelle direction prend une route sans témoins ? » Colum McCann Centre André Malraux, l’Europe tous les jours. Centre André Malraux, Mula Mustafe Bašeskije 8, 71000 Sarajevo tel/fax: (387 33) 471 975 / 206 889/ 668 605 Paris-Sarajevo-Europe (loi 1901); 26, Rue de Saintonge, 75003 Paris. Tel: 33 (0)1 48 87 21 61, Fax: 33 (0)1 48 87 21 17 [email protected] JEAN-MICHEL FRODON Critique, journaliste, écrivain octobre 2009 Pour le Centre André Malraux Il y a eu ce qui ne devait pas arriver. -
The Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity
CI-16/COUNCIL-30/4 Rev. PARIS, 7 October 2016 Original: English THE SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS AND THE DANGER OF IMPUNITY REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COUNCIL OF THE IPDC (THIRTIETH SESSION) INTRODUCTION This document is submitted to the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication’s (IPDC) in accordance with its Decision on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity adopted at its 26th session (27 March 2008) and renewed at subsequent sessions in 2010, 2012, and 2014. The latest Decision from 2014 reiterated “the continuing relevance of [previous] IPDC Decisions that request the Director-General of UNESCO to provide to the Intergovernmental Council of the IPDC, on a two-year basis at its biennial session, an analytical report on the Director- General’s condemnations of the killings of journalists, media workers and social media producers who are engaged in journalistic activities and who are killed or targeted in their line of duty”. The present report offers an overview of the killings of journalists condemned by the Director-General in 2014-2015 as well as providing an analysis of the killings condemned over the last 10 years, between 2006 and 2015. It presents an update on the status of investigations into these killings based on the information provided by Member States. Background information is also provided on the latest developments in the implementation of the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity and on UNESCO’s specific contribution to this process. Communication and Information Sector 2 Communication and Information Sector TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. -
DIDR, Syrie : Chronologie Du Conflit Dans La Province Et La Ville De Homs
SYRIE Chronologie 5 avril 2016 Chronologie du conflit dans la province et la ville de Homs, de mars 2011 à mars 2016 Résumé Cette chronologie recense les principales offensives menées sur la ville de Homs et sa province (la plus vaste de Syrie, s’étendant de la frontière avec le Liban à celle avec l’Irak) de mars 2011 à mars 2016. Parmi celles-ci : les manifestations pacifiques débutant en 2011 ; le siège du quartier de Baba Amr dans la ville de Homs en 2012, et sa reprise aux rebelles par le régime ; ou la perte de la ville de Palmyre à l’Etat Islamique (EI) par les forces pro-régime en 2015, suivie de sa reconquête en 2016. Abstract This chronology, which does not aim to be comprehensive, compiles the key military developments in the city of Homs and its province (Syria’s largest, stretching from the Lebanese to the Iraqi borders) from March 2011 to March 2016, including: the peaceful demonstrations from 2011 onwards; the siege of the neighbourhood of Baba Amr in the city of Homs in 2012, and its reconquest by pro-regime forces; and the regime’s loss of the city of Palmyra in 2015 to Islamic State (IS), followed by its recapture by pro-regime forces in 2016. Avertissement Ce document a été élaboré par la Division de l’Information, de la Documentation et des Recherches de l’Ofpra en vue de fournir des informations utiles à l’examen des demandes de protection internationale. Il ne prétend pas faire le traitement exhaustif de la problématique, ni apporter de preuves concluantes quant au fondement d’une demande de protection internationale particulière. -
Tip of the Iceberg: Religious Extremist Funders Against Human Rights for Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Europe 2009 - 2018
TIP OF THE ICEBERG Religious Extremist Funders against Human Rights for Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Europe 2009 - 2018 TIP OF THE ICEBERG Religious Extremist Funders against Human Rights for Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Europe 2009 – 2018 ISBN: 978 2 93102920 6 Tip of the Iceberg: Religious Extremist Funders against Human Rights for Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Europe 2009 - 2018 Written by Neil Datta, Secretary of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights. Brussels, June 2021 Copyright © EPF 2021 All Rights Reserved. The contents of this document cannot be reproduced without prior permission of the author. EPF is a network of members of parliaments from across Europe who are committed to protecting the sexual and reproductive health of the world’s most vulnerable people, both at home and overseas. We believe that women should always have the right to decide upon the number of children they wish to have, and should never be denied the education or other means to achieve this that they are entitled to. Find out more on epfweb.org and by following @EPF_SRR on Twitter. 2 TIP OF THE ICEBERG Religious Extremist Funders against Human Rights for Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Europe 2009 – 2018 Tip of the Iceberg is the first attempt understand the anti-gender mobilisation in Europe through the perspective of their funding base. This report assembles financial data covering a ten year period of over 50 anti-gender actors operating in Europe. It then takes a deeper look at how religious extremists generate this funding to roll back human rights in sexuality and reproduction.