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According to the letter of the military law, the declaration of a firing zone does not apply to permanent residents in the territory, but since, as the state claimed, the residents of Masafer Yatta were only "seasonal", their expulsion should be permitted. FEATURES SO'ED OD, A 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL, IS ONE OF AROUND 1,000 Palestinian residents of the eight villages in Masafer Yatta - a small region of rugged hills at the southern edge of the occupied West Bank. In May of last year, a three-judge panel of the Supreme Court rejected the residents' appeal against the firing zone, effectively giving the army permission to continue to displace the Palestinians from their land. Settlements like Susya, Ma'on, and Carmel were part of the state's policy of cutting off the Palestinian population in the Negev, which is inside Israel, from the Palestinian population in the southern West Bank, like the residents of Masafer Yatta. [Extracted from the article]

The French government also came to the rescue, as did the British, countering the xenophobia promoted by Erdogan's regime simply by being there and bringing sandwiches. Sar, who lost relatives in the quake and was visibly traumatized during our interview after spending days working in the rescue operation in Hatay, predicted that the earthquake would be "a breaking point" for the government and will be remembered in the future "as the event that closed this era and put the last nail in the coffin of Erdogan's regime." Erdogan still seems blind to the nature of his single-party regime, whose corrupt grip on power assigns to the modern-day CHP (Turkey's oldest political party, founded by Atatürk) a role similar to the Democrat Party's in 1950: that of a disrupter of autocracy. Park life: The protests against government plans to pave Gezi Park in 2013 were the first serious stirrings of opposition to Erdogan's regime. [Extracted from the article]

Before his defeat in 2022, Bolsonaro dismantled Brazil's Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances and praised the coup in Chile. DISPATCHES The day before the 50th anniversary of the coup that ousted Salvador Allende, I watched a father and his young daughter sitting quietly at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. At the time, an estimated 12,200 refugees from Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Argentina were living in Chile - many of them, like my grandma, leftists escaping repression. [Extracted from the article]

The author presents description about political and social conditions in Algeria, a north African country. The most vivid impression of Algeria has been barbed wire, bales of barbed wire serving as roadblocks, barbed wire strung around military compounds, cutting off the paths in the parks and running above the hedges of private gardens. After the war with France, its hard to find a city in the country that is not full of soldiers and where there is no curfew. It is being tried to reconstruct the cities and to accelerate the campaign to relocate the peasantry and to place it under close surveillance.

The article discusses the political crises in Haiti. The fever of rebellion which pervades much of the Caribbean is at its highest now in Cuba and in Haiti. Under martial law and a curfew imposed by the new Haitian military junta, the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, has for the past week (July,1957) been peaceful, without violence. But it is expected to get back to normal very soon. It, is the peace of death. The- brief effort of the Haitian people to obtain a freely-elected government has been crushed in blood. General Antonio Kebreau, head of the Junta, rules from the main barracks with an all-military cabinet of unknown colonels and captains.

Japanese American Gordon Hirabayashi is probably unique among Americans for having endured two trials in the same case, and in the same courthouse, more than forty years apart. The first time he entered the Federal courthouse in Seattle, Washington was in 1942. He was a 24-year-old senior at the University of Washington, charged with violating the military curfew and evacuation orders that preceded the wartime internment of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Prompted by his Quaker beliefs and revulsion at the removal of his family and friends to camps encircled by barbed wire, Hirabayashi turned himself in to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to force a constitutional test of the military edicts. Judge Lloyd Black's ruling on the legal issues made the outcome of the trial a foregone conclusion. Hirabayashi did not dispute the government's evidence that he had refused to obey the curfew and evacuation orders.

The article presents information related to several issues. The report of the Tariff Commission, so far as its contents have been disclosed, is a much more impressive document than was generally looked for. The Commission being composed for the most part of representatives of highly protected trades, it was commonly supposed that the report would recommend that the tariff remain substantially as it now is. If it were true that they have recommended a reduction equal to twenty or twenty-five per cent all around, with greater reductions in particular cases, such as the duties on blankets and steel rails, people shall not withhold from them the approbation, which so wholesome a reform merits. Dublin has been put under the curfew clause of the Repression Act, which authorizes the police to arrest all persons found out of doors after dark under suspicious circumstances, and carry them before a magistrate to give an account of themselves. This, people fear, will prove a source of great irritation to perfectly innocent people, and no help in catching criminals.

It is informed that George Habash is now head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. However, in 1948 he was just a young man who had recently completed his medical studies in Beirut. During the Israeli conquest of the Palestinian town of Lydda, George was there to be with his ailing sister who was married and had six children. Being a doctor, George immediately diagnosed her disease and prescribed some medicines. But Lydda was under curfew and there were no pharmacies, and it was not possible to leave the house and order an urgent delivery of medicine.

This article presents information on the various issues included in the section "events" of this periodical. One of them being a documentary film detailing one day in the life of a Palestinian family during a curfew imposed by the Israelis, "Curfew" movingly exposes the hopes and fears of an extended family and, by extension, an entire people. Another being a lecture by John Mack author of Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens, at 92nd Street Y, Center for Adult Life & Learning, 1395 Lexington. He is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Center for Psychology and Social Change. His books include the Pulitzer Prize--winning A Prince of Our Disorder.

This article presents the report adopted by the Dublin Corporation in answer to the curfew order issued by the British military authorities in Dublin, Ireland forbidding all citizens without permits to be on the streets between midnight and five o'clock in the morning. The report states that the Council refuses permission to any employee or official to apply for permits to the English Military Government for the discharge of any of the municipal duties. The Council refuses to authorize the payment of overtime to any man in respect of work done between 12 midnight and 5 a.m., for which a permit has been obtained.