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The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said on June 19 that the Syrian government re-arrested an opposition Syrian writer and one of the members of the Secretariat of Damascus Declaration Ali Abdullah “who was supposed to be released on last Wednesday, June 16, “after [an] imprisonment sentence for thirty months, on the background of the charges of ‘Demoralize the public-publishing false news that weaken the nation’.”

The Congreso (Spanish parliament) approved yesterday the reform of the Organic Law of Judicial Power, which is a major constraint for the Spanish judges apply the principles underlying universal jurisdiction, ie, pursue the impunity of the most serious crimes. They did it while Peres thanked Zapatero in Israel that Spain is curbing processes against Irsaelian citizens.