Sunjeev Bery

Category: Media

  • Will Tunisia’s new constitution protect women’s human rights?

    Across the Middle East and North Africa, the ousting of dictators has given way to the messy challenges of creating new governments and writing new rules.  Tunisia was the first country in the ongoing wave of protests where protestors pushed a repressive ruler out of power.  Now, an elected body is drafting a new constitution…

  • WaPo: “Amnesty International Web site hacked by supporters of Syrian government”

    By James Ball Washington Post Tuesday, August 28, 2012 Excerpt: “Amnesty International has been very blunt in the reporting that we’ve done and the eyewitness accounts that we’ve collected in Syria,” said Sanjeev Bery, Amnesty International USA’s advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa. “It’s entirely possible that, given that we’ve been so…

  • Release: Rachel Corrie Verdict Highlights Impunity for Israeli Military

    Amnesty International Calls Verdict ‘Denial of Justice’ Contact: Carolyn Lang, clang@aiusa.org, 202-675-8759 (Washington, D.C.) — Amnesty International condemns an Israeli court’s verdict that the government of Israel bears no responsibility in the death of Rachel Corrie, saying the verdict continues the pattern of impunity for Israeli military violations against civilians and human rights defenders in…

  • Update: Bahrain Keeps Ridiculous Charges Against 11-Year-Old Boy

    Originally posted on Human Rights Now (Amnesty International USA blog) By Sanjeev Bery July 6, 2012 Despite an outpouring of global concern, news reports indicate that the Government of Bahrain has still not dropped its charges against 11 year old Ali Hassan. As I wrote earlier this week, Bahraini police arrested the young boy in mid-May on a street that…

  • Press Release: Egyptian Military’s Power Grab Endangers Human Rights

    JUNE 19, 2012 Contact: Suzanne Trimel, strimel@aiusa.org, 212-633-4150, @strimel (Washington D.C.) — Amnesty International USA’s advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa, Sanjeev Bery, issued the following comments today in response to the developing situation in Egypt: “The move by Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to give itself unlimited power free of…

  • Hamas Must End the Death Penalty

    Originally posted at Human Rights Now (Amnesty International USA blog) By Sanjeev Bery June 15, 2012 Trapped between a crushing Israeli blockade and human rights violations at home, the 1.6 million Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip face many challenges in their daily lives.  In our 2012 Annual Report, Amnesty International catalogues the list, from a…

  • SkyNews (UK) Interview: The Case of Bahraini Hunger Striker Abdulhadi AlKhawaja

    Sanjeev Bery interview with SkyNews (UK), May 1, 2012, on the case of Bahraini Hunger Striker Abdulhadi AlKhawaja.

  • Roots of Discontent: Egypt’s Call for Freedom

    Harvard Kennedy School Review April 2011 By Sanjeev Bery On January 1 of this year, few would have predicted that Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak would soon be removed from office. But just three weeks later, thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to begin the push for change. In the aftermath of Tunisia’s political…

  • Arab Freedom Is Good for Israel

    The Huffington Post Posted: February 14, 2011 By Sanjeev Bery Whatever their rivalries, the authoritarian leaders of the Middle East did not want to see Hosni Mubarak removed from power. When you are a dictator – even with the title “King” – the forced departure of another dictator is not the kind of precedent you…

  • Pakistan Foreign Minister Mixes Criticism and Praise of US Foreign Policy

    The HKS Citizen (Harvard Kennedy School) October 26, 2010 By Sanjeev Bery Alternating between criticism and praise, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi spoke about US-Pakistan relations at the Harvard Kennedy School on Monday, October 18th.  Qureshi was at HKS on the eve of a US-Pakistan strategic dialogue with senior US officials in Washington DC.…