Friday, July 13, 2012

Human Rights Watch and awards

I won't be surprised if with all the coverage of the Shaykh Al-Asir in Sidon, Human Rights Watch decides to give him a special human rights award.  Do you know that the only Lebanese (if not Arab) recipient of Human Rights Watch award on human rights is a right-wing Lebanese lawyer who was an alleged ally/supporter of Bashir Gemayyel's fascist militia? (His name is Muhammad Mughrabi.  When I brought the information about him to a HRW director after he won the award, I was told that they did not know about his background but that she noticed that he would avoid referring to the Israeli invasion of 1982 as "invasion" and instead refers to it as "incursion").