{"id":1354,"date":"2007-09-26T12:31:29","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T12:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/hypocrite-bush-hits-out-at-tyrants-and-human-rights-abuse\/1354\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T12:31:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T12:31:29","slug":"hypocrite-bush-hits-out-at-tyrants-and-human-rights-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/hypocrite-bush-hits-out-at-tyrants-and-human-rights-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrite Bush hits out at tyrants and human rights abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editors note: One word –\u00a0Guantanamo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

George Bush yesterday launched a fierce attack on countries which he accused of human rights abuse.<\/p>\n

The president used a UN speech to hit out at ‘brutal regimes’ including Iran, as Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad watched on.<\/p>\n

He said: ‘In Belarus, North Korea, Syria and Iran, brutal regimes deny their people the fundamental rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of the United Nations.’<\/p>\n

He singled out ‘tyrannical’ Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe and Cuban president Fidel Castro for criticism.<\/p>\n

‘The United Nations must insist on change in Harare and must insist for the freedom of the people of Zimbabwe,’ he added.<\/p>\n

‘In Cuba, the long rule of a cruel dictator is nearing its end. The Cuban people are ready for their freedom.’ The Cuban delegation walked out of the chamber in protest.<\/p>\n

But Mr Bush’s speech in New York was branded ‘hypocrital’ and he was accused of abandoning human rights in Iraq and at the US prison camp Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.<\/p>\n

Lawyer Louise Christian, who has represented Guantanamo Bay prisoners, said: ‘George Bush needs to realise when making these statements what is happening in his own back yard.’<\/p>\n

And Phil Shiner, head of Public Interest Lawyers, described it as ‘absolute nonsense’.<\/p>\n

‘He’s got as much in common with human rights as Pol Pot did,’ he added.<\/p>\n

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Editors note: One word –\u00a0Guantanamo George Bush yesterday launched a fierce attack on countries which he accused of human rights abuse. The president used a UN speech to hit out at ‘brutal regimes’ including Iran, as Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad watched on. He said: ‘In Belarus, North Korea, Syria and Iran, brutal regimes deny their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[33],"class_list":{"0":"post-1354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"tag-guantanamo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}