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Index: 1. Overview 2 Briefing Aims The Istanbul Session – The Verdict The Demand for Justice The Origins and Structure of the World Tribunal on Iraq 3. The Istanbul Session The Concept Structure and Agenda (scheduled hearings) Jury of Conscience Panel of Advocates and Witnesses Appendix 1 - Sessions around the world Appendix 2 - List of endorsers

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Overview A Call for Justice A war of aggression was launched in spite of the opposition of people and governments from around the world. However, no court or authority has taken action against the misconduct of the US and its allies. If the official authorities fail, then an authority derived from universal morals and human rights principles can speak for the world. The investigation of what happened in Iraq is of prime importance to restore truth and preserve our collective memory against the constant rewriting of history. The objectives of the World Tribunal on Iraq The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) is a worldwide undertaking to reclaim justice. It aims to record the severe wrongs, crimes and violations that were committed in the process leading up to the aggression against Iraq, during the war and throughout the ensuing occupation, that continue to be widespread to this day. It is our intention to also record the social, political, environmental and cultural devastation. In the end, the evidence gathered and presented at this tribunal will serve as a historical record that breaks the web of lies promulgated by the war coalition and its embedded press. On June 23rd to the 27th 2005, at the start of the third year of the occupation of Iraq, the culminating session will take place in Istanbul. This session will reach a decision following an examination of the results of the previous sessions as well as new reports and testimonies, while evaluating the implications of the aggression against Iraq for the world at large. How does the WTI work? The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) is a worldwide initiative born out of the global outcry against the war in Iraq. It is a horizontal network of local groups worldwide that work together in a nonhierarchical system. The project consists of commissions of inquiry and sessions held around the world investigating various issues related to the war on Iraq, such as the legality of the war, the role of the United Nations, war crimes and the role of the media1. In these sessions, a platform was provided for people from Iraq, as well as experts and activists to articulate their concerns and demands and to present their reports. Participation in this effort comes from numerous individuals and groups around the world, while being endorsed by many non-governmental organisations and renowned names, including Noam Chomsky (world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist), Dennis Halliday (former assistant to the UN Secretary General and Director of the UN Humanitarian Aid Programme during a 34-year long career at the UN), and Prof. Richard Falk (UNESCO peace prize holder with over 30 books published on international law and human rights). For more information: International Media Co-ordinator Tolga Temuge, [email protected] or WTI Office in Istanbul + 90 212 244 7370 http://www.worldtribunal.org Please refer to Appendix 1 for a list of the issues investigated in the sessions held around the world

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Briefing We are witnessing a war and occupation that offends our sense of justice. The US Administration does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and therefore cannot be brought before it. We can no longer ignore the paradox haunting us: If the powerful can officially exempt themselves from the law, then what implications follow for the world’s demand for justice? The World Tribunal on Iraq seeks to respond to this question. The Aims In organising this International Tribunal we pursue four fundamental aims:

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To establish the facts about what happened in Iraq and to inform the public about war crimes committed by the US and its allies in the attack on Iraq and the perpetuation of crimes during the occupation. There is the need for a deeper investigation on the real goals behind this war and the dangers of this war logic for world peace. It is especially important to reveal the truth behind the limited version of reality provided to us by the war-coalition and its embedded press.

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To continue and strengthen the mobilisation of the peace movement and the global antiwar protest. It is intended that the tribunal will be an endeavour backed by a strong international network. Anti-war and peace movements that succeeded in mobilizing the masses against the attack on Iraq have adopted the idea of indicting the aggressors and of setting up a campaign to support the Tribunal process.

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The tribunal is to be considered a continuing process. We are challenging the silence of international institutions and we are seeking to put them under pressure to fulfill their obligations under international law. In judging the recent past our aim is to prevent illegal and illegitimate wars in the future. During this process the tribunal can formulate recommendations on international law and expand notions of justice and ethical-political awareness. It can contribute to providing alternatives to "victors’ justice" and give a voice to the victims of the war. In doing so, we support the demand to end the occupation and restore Iraqi sovereignty.

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The WTI initiative seeks to be a part of a broader movement to stop the establishment of a new imperial world order as a permanent "state of exception" with constant wars as one of its main tools.

The Istanbul Session – The Final Outcome The proceedings in the Istanbul session will set out the findings of the various preceding sessions held around the world on the legal, political, social, and ethical wrongs committed against the people of Iraq, with reference to specific crimes and violations. A conclusion will be drawn on each of the following issues that broadly cover the various investigations that have been part of the WTI process around the world:

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The (il)legality and (il)legitimacy of the war and occupation of Iraq

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The criminal conduct of the coalition forces during the war and the ongoing occupation

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The failure of political institutions, both national and international, to prevent the execution of war

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The complicity of the media and information agencies in all the said crimes and violations

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The accountability for the economical and political designs in the outbreak of the war and the future threat this entails

In order to accomplish our stated aims, the wider issues of concern that arise from this war, beyond the specific crimes committed, must also be addressed. The second part of the Istanbul session will be considering the future implications that result from the violation of international law. Such considerations include: the implications on the role and effectiveness of the UN; the media as a reliable source of information and the impact of this war on global security and civil liberties. The aim is for the concluding session in Istanbul to provide a point of departure for future initiatives that might build on the work of the WTI and/or elaborate on issues that may not have received the attention they deserve. The Demand for Justice We are aware that the law is not above and beyond all sources of influence and its enforcement is commensurate with political power. The WTI initiative will seek power of enforcement in terms of acting upon the judgments reached to mobilise world public opinion in order to invigorate social and political pressure that will contribute to peace and justice. To this end, the WTI, based on its work, will campaign at all levels, addressing the world public as well as international institutions. Efforts to bring national authorities and war makers to national and international courts will also receive the support of the WTI as part of the overall campaign to put an end to the impunity enjoyed by the US and its allies. We believe that the Istanbul session bears the responsibility of culminating a process already initiated, and of initiating a process yet to be imagined. The origins and structure of the World Tribunal on Iraq The idea was discussed and supported at anti-war meetings that were held in Berlin, Brussels, Geneva, Paris and Cancun during 2003. On 25 May 2003, the participants at the Jakarta Conference issued a joint declaration committing to work to establish an international tribunal on war crimes. A working group was established during the European Network for Peace and Human Rights Meeting of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, held in Brussels on 26-27 June 2003. The working group decided that the international tribunal would investigate and establish the crimes against the people of Iraq and against humanity. Later, an international coordination committee was formed consisting of individuals and groups initially interested in the tribunal initiative to help facilitate the work of the secretariat and the exchange of information. The

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international coordinating group came together in Istanbul on 27-29 October 2003 and decided upon the concept, format and the objectives of the tribunal project. The core series of hearings started on April 14th 2004 in Brussels and will end in a final tribunal session in Istanbul between June 23rd and 27th, 2005.

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The Istanbul Session The Final Outcome

Taking its cue from the Russell Tribunal of the late 1960s, the World Tribunal on Iraq is aimed at challenging the silence around the aggression against Iraq and seeking the truth about the war and occupation in Iraq. This will be a record of wrongs, violations and crimes as well as suffering, resistance and silenced voices. This will be a process of listening, reflection, evaluation and informed judgement based on concrete evidence. This will be a call to conscience and a call to act to preserve our futures. The conceptual framework of the Istanbul session is twofold: (A) An investigation of the wrongs committed against the people of Iraq: 1. Whether the “coalition governments” are guilty of a gross and criminal violation of the life, liberty and dignity of the people of Iraq as a result of war. Whether those governments that are outside the coalition forces, but have provided the forces with various facilities, are guilty of complicity. 2. Whether the current occupation in Iraq is illegal, illegitimate and in violation of the sovereignty of the people of Iraq. 3. Whether the coalition governments and the corporations operating in Iraq are guilty of continuing violations of the fundamental rights of the people of Iraq through the criminal conduct of political manipulation and economic plundering affected under the guise of transition to “democracy”. 4. Whether the political institutions of the international community are responsible for giving way to the infliction of injustice on the people of Iraq. 5. Whether the media has been complicit in the aforementioned violations by not fulfilling its social responsibility to convey the truth. (B) An investigation of issues related to the implementation of justice, including: 1. What implications does this war carry on the ability of political and legal institutions to fulfil the aspirations of the world’s citizens? 2. Have we been lied to? If we cannot rely on the media to get to the truth, then what are the implications? 3. What impact does the war on Iraq have on global security? What are the main dangers facing the majority of the world’s population? What implications does the discourse on the ‘War on Terrorism’ have on the civil liberties of people around the world? 4. What implications, in terms of the future of humanity, flow from the destruction affected upon the world’s cultural heritage, the environment and our resources in general?

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5. Following the bombings in Istanbul, Madrid, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia and other countries, can we accept the claim that the threat of ‘terrorism’ is being reduced by the current US/UK strategies of violence? 6. What options do we face and what alternatives can we imagine? This tribunal shall render a decision on the issues presented to it, which will be widely distributed throughout the world for the benefit of individuals and groups struggling for peace and justice.

For more information: International Media Co-ordinator Tolga Temuge, or WTI Office in Istanbul + 90 212 244 7370

[email protected] http://www.worldtribunal.org

Attached is also a list of jury members and the panel of advocates and witnesses at the Istanbul session. Interviews are available upon request.

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Structure and Agenda IMPORTANT NOTE: The hearings will start on 24 June 2005

23 June, 20:00 Opening & Concert 24 June, 09:00-18:30 Hearings: The crimes and violations committed during the aggression against Iraq 25 June, 09:00-18:30 Hearings: The crimes and violations committed during the aggression against Iraq (cont.) 26 June, 09:00-18:30 The implications for the global demand for justice (18:30 Concert in support of WTI organised by the Global Peace and Justice Coalition, one of the endorsers of the WTI. ) 27 June, 11:00 The Tribunal will announce its decision

Location Darphane-i Amire (Topkapi Palace Grounds, opposite the Archaeology Museum) (Press Conference will be held at Hotel Armada) Directions in Turkish: Topkapi Sarayi 1.avlusu, Aya Irini yani, Arkeoloji Muzesi karsisi

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Scheduled Hearings DAY ONE, 24 JUNE 2005 09:00 – 09:30 Arundhati Roy, Opening Speech of the Spokesperson of the Jury of Conscience and the Introduction of the Jury 09:30 – 09:50 Richard Falk, Opening Speech on behalf of the Panel of Advocates: Macro approach to the system; the "moral" responsibility underlying the constitution of the UN; the limits to the exercise of power for the states; violation of international law. First Session / The Role of International Law and Institutions (Moderator: T. Tarhanlı) 09:50 – 10:00 Turgut Tarhanlı: The Framework of the Session 10:00 – 10:20 Phil Shiner: The Illegality of preventive attack and unilateral use of force; the illegality of use of force in inter-state relations; the illegality of the occupation. 10:20 – 10:40 Hans von Sponeck: The conduct of the UN before and after the 2003 invasion 10:40 – 11:00 Larry Everest: The history of US and UK Interventions in Iraq 11:00 – 11:20 Questions from the Jury 11:20 – 11:40 Coffee Break 11:40 – 12:00 Jim Harding: Neo-Colonization Trends 12:00 – 12:20 Amy Bartholomew: Empire's Law and Human Rights as Swords of Empire 12:20 – 12:40 Issa Shivji: Implications of the Decrease in Confidence in International Institutions and International Law 12:40 – 13:00 Tony Alessandrini: The Violation of the Will of Global Anti-War Movement as a Crime Against Peace 13:00 – 13:20 Questions from the Jury 13:20 – 14:30 Lunch Second Session / The Responsibility of Governments (Moderator: Ahmet İnsel) 14:30 – 14:50 Baskın Oran: U.S. Attack on Iraq and the Policy of the Turkish Government 14:50 – 15:10 Khaled Fahmy: The Responsibility of Arab Governments 15:10 – 15:30 Guglielmo Carchedi: The Responsibility of European Governments 15:30 – 15:50 Walden Bello: The Responsibility of the Coalition of the Willing and Their Supporters 15:50 – 16:10 Questions from the Jury 16:10 – 16:30 Coffee Break

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Third Session / The Accountability of the Media (Moderator: Ömer Madra) 16:30 – 16:50 Saul Landau: Economic-Political Connections of Media 16:50 – 17:10 David Miller: Media Wrongs in the War and Occupation 17:10 – 17:30 Witness - Mete Çubukçu: Moral Responsibility of War Journalism 17:30 – 17:50 Jayan Nayar: The Need and Basis for Media Accountability 17:50 – 18:10 Ömer Madra: The Quest for an Alternative Media 18:10 – 18:30 Questions from the Jury SECOND DAY, 25 JUNE 2005 09:00 – 09:10 Summary of the Previous Day Fourth Session / The Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (Moderator: Haifa Zangana) 09:10 – 09:20 Haifa Zangana: The Framework of the Session 09:20 – 09:40 Witness - Dahr Jamail: Testimony on War Crimes and the Recent Situation in Iraq 09:40 – 10:00 Akira Maeda / Sayo Saruta / Koichi Inamori: The Excessive Use of Weapons and Banned Weapons 10:00 – 10:20 Thomas Fasy: The Health Effects of DU Weapons in Iraq 10:20 – 10:40 Witness - Denis Halliday: The Conduct of the UN 10:40 – 11:00 Questions from the Jury 11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break 11:20 – 11:40 Hana Ibrahim: Gender Based Violence (security and gender based violence) 11:40 – 12:00 Eman Khammas: Ruin of Daily Life (security and education system) 12:00 – 12:20 Witness - Tim Goodrich: The Conduct of the US Army 12:20 – 12:40 Amal Sawadi: Detentions and Prison Conditions 12:40 – 13:00 Witness - Fadhil Al Bedrani: Collective Punishment 13:00 – 13:20 Questions from the Jury 13:20 – 14:30 Lunch Fourth Session / Cont. ... (Moderator: Joel Kovel)

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14:30 – 14:50 Joel Kovel: Effects of the War on the Infrastructure 14:50 – 15:10 Herbert Docena: Economic Colonization 15:10 – 15:30 Mohammed Al Rahoo: Iraqi Law Under Occupation 15:30 – 15:50 Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty: The Transfer of Power in Iraq 15:50 – 16:10 Niloufer Bhagwat: The Privatization of War 16:10 – 16:30 Questions from the Jury 16:30 – 16:50 Coffee Break 16:50 – 17:10 Huda Al Nuaimi: The Occupation as Prison 17:10 – 17:30 Barbara Olshansky: Covert Practices in the U.S. War on Terror and the Implications for International Law: The Guantanamo Example 17:30 – 17:50 Witness - Mark Manning / Rana M. Mustafa: Falluja 17:50 – 18:10 Abdul Wahab Al Obeidi: Human Rights Violations and the Disappeared in Iraq 18:10 – 18:30 Johan Galtung: Human Rights and the U.S./U.K. Illegal Attack on Iraq 18:30 – 18:50 Questions from the Jury THIRD DAY, 26 JUNE 2005 09:00 – 09:10 Summary of the Previous Day Fifith Session / Cultural Heritage, Environment and World Resources (Moderator: Hilal Elver) 09:10 – 09:20 Hilal Elver: The Framework of the Session 09:20 – 09:40 Gül Pulhan: The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: A Report from the Istanbul Initiative 09:40 – 10:00 Witness - Amal Al Khedairy: Testimony on the Destruction of Cultural Heritage 10:00 – 10:20 Joel Kovel: The Ecological Implications of the War 10:20 – 10:40 Witness - Souad Naji Al-Azzawi: Tes. on Radioactive Contamination in Iraq 10:40 – 11:00 Questions from the Jury 11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break Sixth Session / Global Security Environment and Future Alternatives (Moderator: Ayşe Gül Altınay)

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11:20 – 11:40 Ayşe Gül Altınay: Militarism and the Culture of Violence 11:40 – 12:00 Nadje Al-Ali: Gender and War: The Plight of Iraqi Women 12:00 – 12:20 Liz Fekete: Creating Racism and Intolerance 12:20 – 12:40 Samir Amin: The Economy of Militarization 12:40 – 13:00 Ahmad Mohamed Al-Jaradat Relationship between Iraq, Palestine and Israel. 13:00 – 13:20 Questions from the Jury 13:20 – 14:30 Lunch Sixth Session / Cont. ... 14:30 – 14:50 Wamidh Nadhmi: Polarization and the Narrowing Scope of Political Alternatives 14:50 – 15:10 John Ross: Collateral Damage: The Mexican Example 15:10 – 15:30 Christine Chinkin: Human Security versus State Security 15:30 – 15:50 Ken Coates: The Future of the Peace Movement 15:50 – 16:10 Corrine Kumar: Towards a New Political Imaginary 16:10 – 16:30 Biju Matthew: Alternatives for an Alternative Future 16:30 – 17:00 WTI İstanbul Coordination: The WTI as an Alternative: An Experimental Assertion 17:00 – 17:20 Questions from the Jury 17:20 – 17:40 Coffee Break 17:40 – 18:00 Richard Falk - Closing Speech on Behalf of the Panel of Advocates 18:00 – 18:20 Arundhati Roy - Closing Speech on Behalf of the Jury of Conscience 18:20 – 18:30

The Closing of the World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul.

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Jury of Conscience AHMET ÖZTÜRK (Turkey) Oztürk as been active in many NGO's. He is a member of the Board of Zonguldak Cultural and Education Foundation and is a columnist in a local newspaper. He is working as a mine worker. ARUNDHATI ROY (India) Renowned author and activist Arundhati Roy received the Booker Prize for literature in 1997. Presently, one of the most eloquent voices for the global justice and anti-war movement, she was also awarded, among many others, the Sydney Peace Prize in 2004, and the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize in 2002. AYŞE ERZAN (Turkey) Professor of Physics at the Istanbul Technical University, she has been active in the Peace Initiative of Turkey. L'Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science 2003 Laureate for Europe. CHANDRA MUZAFFAR (Malesia) Chandra Muzaffar is one of Malaysia's most prominent human rights activists. Founder of Aliron, a multi-ethnic Malaysian reform movement dedicated to justice, freedom, and solidarity, he was its president from 1977 to 1991. Prof. Muzaffar, who used to teach at the Center for Civilizational Dialogue at the University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, is now the president of the International Movement for a Just World. Prof. Muzaffar is a Board member of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism based in Belgium. He is the author of many books including Human Rights & the New World Order and Muslims, Dialogue, Terror. DAVID KRIEGER (USA) Founder and President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, an international organization dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons, the strengthening of international law, and the empowerment of a new generation of peace leaders.. Dr. Krieger has lectured throughout the world on issues of peace, international law and the elimination of nuclear weapons, and is the author and editor of many books on these subjects, including Nuclear Weapons and the World Court and, most recently, Today Is Not a Good Day for War (poetry). He is the recipient of the 2005 Global Green Millennium Award for International Evironmental Leadership. DUMISA NSEBEZA (South Africa)

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Member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid regime in 1995, where the victims of violence along with those that applied violence gave testimonies aiming to reach social reconciliation. EVE ENSLER (USA) Eve Ensler's Obie-Award-winning play, "The Vagina Monologues", translated into over 35 languages and running in theaters all over the world, initiated V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. She is also Chair of the Women's Committee of PEN American Center and is an Executive Producer of "What I want my words to do to you", a documentary about the writing group she has led since 1998 at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women. FRANÇOIS HOUTART (Belgium) He participated in the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on US Crimes in Vietnam in 1967. He is a spiritual father and a member of the International Committee of the World Social Forum of Porto Alegre, Director of the Tricontinental Center (Cetri) for research on alternative globalisation, Executive Secretary of the Alternative World Forum, and President of the International League for rights and liberation of people. He participated as an expert to the works of Concile Vatican II (1962-1965). He has numerous works on globalization, social stuggles, and regularly collaborates with Le Monde Diplomatique. JAE-BOK KIM (South Korean) South Korean priest. Iraq Peace Team member. Went on a 58-day hunger strike upon Korean government's decision to send troops on Iraq. ISAIAS VEDOVATTO (Brazil) Brazilian peasant, member of the MST national coordination. LYDIA MIY DE ALMEIDA (Argentina) Representative of Madres de la Plaza de Mayo (Linea Fundadora), an NGO dedicated to peace and human rights formed my mothers looking for justice after their children were kidnapped and mostly killed during the dictatorship in Argentina named the "Dirty War" (1976-83). MEHMET TARHAN (Turkey) Anti-militarist and gay rights activist Tarhan declared his conscientious objection in October 2001, on the grounds of which he was arrested on April 8th, 2005. He has currently been transferred to his unit without his consent. MIGUEL ANGEL DE LOS SANTOS CRUZ (Mexico)

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In 1994, de los Santos became the lawyer for the Non-Governmental Organizations' Coordinator for Peace, or CONPAZ, a human rights group founded to end the unrest in Chiapas. He has defended more than 100 indigenous Mexicans accused of membership in the guerrilla Zapatista army. When tensions in Chiapas boiled over in 1996, de los Santos was targeted by right-wing extremists, but the young attorney refused to keep silent. MURAT BELGE (Turkey) Editor, political scientist, writer. He resigned from the university when he was an associate professor in the Faculty of English Language and Literature of Istanbul University and cofounded Iletisim Publishers. In addition to criticism and commentaries published in literary and political magazines, he is known for his translations from authors like Faulkner, James Joyce, Patrick White and Dickens. He was the editor-in-chief of monthly socialist cultural magazine Birikim and Yeni Gündem. He is currently teaching at Bilgi University and has a column in Radikal newspaper. RELA MAZALI (Israel) Mazali is an Israeli writer and feminist peace activist. A founder of the New Profile movement to de-militarize Israeli civil society, Mazali has worked for many years to end the occupation of the Palestinian territories. She is the author of numerous short stories, articles, and essays, including: WhaNever: A Novel (1987); Playbie Sitter , a children's book co-authored with No'a Mazali, her daughter (1997); and educational curricula. Her first book in English, Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings (2001) was published by Stanford University Press. SALAAM AL JOBOURIE (Iraq) He comes from a village which was harmed at the war in Iraq and he has lost his relatives. He is currently working as a journalist in Baghdad.

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Panel of Advocates ABDUL ILAH AL BAYATY (Iraq/France) He began his political life as a Baathist when he was 15 years old in 1955. He became one the leaders of this party in 1961. He led a leftist scism in the Baath party in 1962 and was imprisoned by the Baathist in 1963. He lived under all the dictatorships which ruled Iraq since 1940 and was imprisioned by all the regimes. He left Iraq in 1970 because the regime wanted to arrest him. He is considered by the Iraqi political circles as a democratic leftist personality who never compromised with the governments. Member of the Arab National Congress, he is now part of the redaction of the Al Wifaq Al Democrati and writes from time to time in Al Ahram Weekly. ABDUL WAHAB AL OBEIDI (Iraq) Member of the executive board of "Freedom Voice for Human Rights", a human rights organisation in Baghdad mostly constituted of lawyers which is keeping record of human rights violations, especially the cases of missing people in Iraq. AHMAD MOHAMED AL-JARADAT (Palestine) A political activist and writer from Hebron, Al-Jaradat has been working with the Alternative Information Center as the Occupation Watch Center coordinator for the last six years. AHMET İNSEL (Turkey) PhD, Master and B.A in economics, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Professor at the University of Galatasaray, Economics Department, since 2001 and associate professor at Paris 1 since 1987. Vice-président of Paris 1 University (1994-1999) and dean of the Department of Economics (1990-1994). Member of Iletisim Publishing House's and Birikim Monthly Review's Boards of Editors . Coordinator of Revue du MAUSS Editors Commitee. He is recently working on two projects: “European Integration and Cultural Patterns of Thought and Perception. Cultural Aspects of the EU Enlargement Process on the Basis of the Relations between the EU and Turkey” and “Working Conditions, Labour and Syndicalism: The Industry Sector in Turkey” . AKIRA MAEDA (Japan) Prof. of Law at Tokyo Zokei University. Director of Japanese Association of Democratic Lawyers. Representative of International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan, ICTA and International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq, ICTI-Japan. AMAL AL KHEDAIRY (Iraq) She is the founder and director of Al-Beit Al-Iraqi or Iraqi House, an arts and cultural center in Baghdad since 1988, which was bombed and destroyed by US forces on April

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4th, 2003. She is also a widely traveled expert in Iraqi history, regional culture, arts, archeology and music. AMAL SAWADI (Iraq) Lawyer in Iraq who represents and defends the rights of detainess and prisoners of war in Iraq. AMY BARTHOLOMEW (Canada) Professor in the Department of Law, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is a contributor to and the editor of, Empire's Law and has written on the Iraq war, international law and the 'human rights hawks' in The New Imperial Challenge: The Socialist Register 2004 (Leo Panitch and Colin Leys eds.). She has written widely on legal and political theory, particularly with regard to human rights. She was a witness at the BRussells Tribunal, is currently on the Advisory Committee to that Tribunal and is on the international advisory board of the conference "International Humanitarian Law and Impunity of Powerful States: The Case of the United States" to be held in Paris September 2005. ANTHONY ALESSANDRINI (USA) Lecturer at Rutgers University on Comparative Literature. Active member of Students for Justice in Palestine. One of the organizers of the WTI-New York session, member of WTI International Coordination Team. AYŞE GÜL ALTINAY (Turkey) Doctor of Cultural Anthropology at Sabancı University. She works on militarism, nationalism and gender, and has been active in the antiwar and antimilitarist movement in Turkey. She has two books to her name: Homeland, Nation, Women (ed.) and The Myth of the Military-Nation. BARBARA OLSHANSKY (USA) Barbara Olshansky is the Assistant Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights since 1995. She is one of the lawyers who prepared the case concerning the illegality of the US detention activities in Guantanamo. She is the author of Secret Trials and Executions: Military Tribunals and the Threat to Democracy (2002), co-author of Against War in Iraq: An anti-War Primer (2003), and also co-author of America’s Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment Detainess and the “War on Terror” (2004). BASKIN ORAN (Turkey) Professor of International Relations. He works on issues of nationalism, minorities, Turkish foreign policy. A columnist in the daily Agos, he has many articles and books to his name and was a member of the recently abolished Advisory Board on Human Rights.

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BIJU MATHEW (USA) A researcher of migration, diasporic politics and international labor markets, Mathew is an organizer with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a member of the Board of the Brecht Forum, NYC, a Coordinator for the Forum of Inqulabi Leftists (FOIL) and the Campaign to Stop Funding Hate. His current work includes interventions in debates around mass organizing in the United States and the relationship between imperialisms and fundamentalisms. His most recent work is Taxi! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City. CAMILO MEIJA (USA/Mexico) Went to Iraq in the US Army in April 2003. Came back to US on leave in October and declared he would not go back to Iraq and was arrested. Amnesty International supported the campaign for his release. He was released from prison in February 2005. CHRISTINE CHINKIN (UK) Advisor to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics. Member of the London Commission of Inquiry that submitted an appeal to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Tony Blair and members of the UK government that led to the decision that there was sufficient ground for the ICC to launch an investigation on Blair and his cabinet members for breaches of the ICC statute in relation to crimes against humanity and/or war crimes committed during the Iraq conflict and occupation in 2003. CORRINE KUMAR (India/Tunisia) Story teller, weaver, dreamer and also sociologist/political philosopher. She is also sociologist/political philosopher and is with El Taller International, an NGO based in Tunisia focusing on the global south. She is also with the Asian Women’ Human Rights Council and in partnership with networks and women’s human rights organizations prepares and holds the Courts of Women creating public spaces with new political visions. She is the International Coordinator of the Courts of Women. Her writings challenge the dominant discourses particularly on human rights, drawing the contours of a new political imaginary often titled a South wind. DAHR JAMAIL (USA) An American independent journalist who went to Iraq after the invasion to bring attention to how the Iraqi people and US soldiers were being affected, with his internet journal Journal Jamail. His articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, The Sunday Herald and is a regular contributor to Inter Press Service. DAVID MILLER (Scotland) As a faculty member of the Sociology and Geography Department at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, his current research interests include propaganda and the 'war on terror', corporate communications, corporate power, lobbying, the strategic use of science,

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corporate influences on academic work, spin and the decline of democratic governance. David Miller is editor of Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq. DENIS HALLIDAY (Ireland) Halliday served between 1994-98 as Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations, and was appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the post of UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq and administrator of the Oil-for-Food program as of 1 September 1997. He resigned from his post in Iraq and from the United Nations as a whole in September 1998, protestingthe economic sanctions and the inefficiency of the program. EMAN KHAMMAS (Iraq) Eman Khammas is an Iraqi human rights activist based in Baghdad. She is the former codirector of International Occupation Watch Centre. During the time of war and occupation, she has been writing articles and news for the alternative media, providing invaluable effort to let the world outside Iraq comprehend the realities of occupation. FADHIL AL BEDRANI (Iraq) He is the Iraqi Al Jazeera correspondant. Also works for Reuters. He stayed inside Fallujah during the last major assault on the city. GÜL PULHAN (Turkey) Gül Pulhan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Koç University. She is a specialist in Ancient Near Eastern archaeology and has excavated extensively in Anatolia. She recently organized an international symposium, "A Future for Our Past", which was devoted to the subject of redefining cultural heritage and its protection. GUGLIELMO CARCHEDI (Holland) Carchedi is a retired professor from the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of many articles and books including Frontiers of Political Economy, Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics (ed. with Alan Freeman), and For Another Europe, a Class Analysis of European Economic Integration. HAIFA ZANGANA (Iraq/UK) A painter and a writer, she was born in Baghdad and graduated from University of Baghdad, School of Pharmacy. Joined the communist party - Central Command, in 1968. She was imprisoned by the Baath regime during 1971-72. She left Iraq to work with the PLO in 1975, moving between Syria and Lebanon, and moved to London on the onset of the civil war in Lebanon, in 1976. Co-founder of Act Together (a campaigning group for UK based Iraqi and non-Iraqi women) and a founding member of International Association for Contemporary Iraqi Studies (IACIS).

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HANA IBRAHIM (Iraq) Writer and journalist, she worked in the Palestine camps in Jordan and Lebanon during 1970-73. She was the manager of Women's Cultural Center in Baghdad and edited and wrote in many feminist journals. She worked in the Occupation Watch Center in 2004. She is currently the Chair of Women's Will organisation and is editing its journal. HANS VON SPONECK (Germany / Switzerland) Former United Nation's Assistant Secretary-General Hans von Sponeck joined the UN Development Program in 1968, and worked in Ghana, Turkey, Botswana, Pakistan and India, before becoming Director of European Affairs. Serving thirty-six years with the organization, his last post succeeded Denis Halliday as UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq and administrator of the Oil-for-Food program in October 1998. Sponeck resigned in February 2000, in protest of the international policy toward Iraq, including sanctions. HERBERT DOCENA (Philippines) Docena is a research associate at Focus on the Global South based in Bangkok, a project of Chulalongkorn University's Social Research Institute (CUSRI), focusing on international policy research and advocacy, with offices in Manila and Mumbai. As part of the International Occupation Watch Center, he stayed in Iraq researching on Iraq's reconstruction and political transition. HİLAL ELVER (Turkey/USA) Prof. Elver received both a Degree in Law and a Ph.D. from the University of Ankara Law School in Turkey. She teaches environmental policy as a visiting professor in the Global Studies Program at the University of California - Santa Barbara. She was a legal advisor to Turkey's Ministry of Environment and has a book entitled Peaceful Uses of International Rivers: The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers Dispute. HUDA AL NUAIMI (Iraq) Huda al Nuaimi is an assistant political science professor at al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. She is the head of Palestinian strategic studies in Baghdad University, and also conducts interviews with the female prisoners in Baghdad as a volunteer for the Amnesty International. ISSA SHIVJI (Tanzania) Professor of international law at Tanzania Dar es Salaam University. Founder and former Director of the Institute for Research on Land Rights and Resources. He has written extensively on democracy and law in Africa, "law's empire and empire's lawlesness" and related subjects. JAYAN NAYAR (Maleysia/İtaly)

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Dr. of Law at Warwick University. Also, Coordinator of Peoples’ Law Program at the Lelio Basso International Foundation. He has written extensively on People's Tribunal, People's Law, and the relationship between legal processes and transnational corporations. JIM HARDING (Canada) Jim Harding is a retired professor in the School of Human Justice at the University of Regina in Canada. He is a peace activist and former city councillor and author of After Iraq - War, Imperialism and Democracy. Since the 1970s he has worked as a researcher and activist for an end to uranium mining in his home province of Saskatchewan, which now houses the largest operating uranium mines in the world. JOEL KOVEL (USA) Professor of Social Studies at the New York Bard College. Founder and editor of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism magazine. He was the Green Party candidate for the U.S. Presidency in the 2000 elections. His last book is Enemy of Nature.

JOHAN GALTUNG (Norway/Spain) Peace studies and general social science professor at the Universidad de Alicante in Spain. Advisor to the UN. Won the alternative Peace Prize in 1987. Currently the director of Transcend (a network for peace and development). He has many books to his name, including Human Rights in Another Key. JOHN ROSS (USA) A long-time anti-war activist and one of the first U.S. resisters to be imprisoned for opposing the Vietnam draft, is a long time Latin America correspondent with four decades on the ground covering social movements in the region from Peru's Sendero Luminoso to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico. He is a frequent lecturer on university campuses from Harvard to Berkeley. In addition to his latest publication Murdered By Capitalism Ross has published six titles of fiction and non-fiction. KEN COATES (UK) He is the Chairman of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and the editor of The Spokesman. A special professor at the University of Nottingham until 2004, he served as a Member of the European Parliament between 1989 and 1999, and was President of its Human Rights Sub-committee from 1989 to 1994. KHALED FAHMY (Egypt/USA) Khaled Fahmy is associate professor of modern Middle Eastern history in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is the author of numerous studies on the social and cultural history of nineteenth-century Egypt. Fahmy

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also continues working on contemporary Middle Eastern politics, particularly on Israel, Palestine and Iraq. KOICHI INAMORI (Japan) Lawyer, member of the panel of prosecutors for ICTI. Also member of the prosecution in the lawsuit over unconstitutionality of dispatching SDF to Iraq. He is also lecturer at Aichi University. LARRY EVEREST (USA) Author of Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the US Global Agenda, Everest has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 20 years for the Revolutionary Worker newspaper and other publications. In 1991, shortly after the end of the Persian Gulf War, Everest went to Iraq to document the impact of the war on the Iraqi people and filmed the award-winning video Iraq: War against the People. His also has a book entitled Behind the Poison Cloud - Union Carbide's Bhopal Massacre. LIZ FEKETE (UK) Vice President of the London Race Relations Institute. Conducted research on the effects of the politics of “war on terror” on civil rights and liberties and racism in Europe. She is also the co-editor of Race&Class, a journal on racism, empire and globalisation. MARK MANNING (USA) He was among the rare American unembedded journalists inside Fallujah during the two sieges of April and November 2004. He spent one week inside Fallujah with a video camera interviewing survivors of the November siege and edited a film from these interviews, which will make its world premiere at the WTI. METE ÇUBUKÇU (Turkey) A journalist who has been to Palestine and Iraq several times, Çubukcu has published two books entitled Our Palestine and Journalism Under Fire. MOHAMMED AL RAHOO (Iraq) Mosul University, Faculty of Law. NADJE AL-ALI (Iraq/UK) A social anthropologist of Iraqi origin and senior lecturer at the University of Exeter, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. She is specialized in women and gender issues in the Middle East and has been working on the impact of war and economic sanctions on women in Iraq. She is also a founding member of Act Together: Women's Action on Iraq and a

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member of Women in Black UK. Recently, she has been commissioned by Zed Publishers to write a book on the modern history of Iraqi women from the 1950s to today. NILOUFER BHAGWAT (India) Professor Bhagwat is a judge from India and she is the Vice President of Mumbai based Indian Lawyers Association. She has written the final opinion of the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan at Tokyo in March 2004. ÖMER MADRA (Turkey) Co-founder, editor-in-chief and programmer of Açık Radyo, an independent radio station in İstanbul. Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at İstanbul Bilgi University since 1996. Beside his published academic works, essays, and a novel, Madra has taken editorial posts at several Turkish newspapers and magazines. PHIL SHINER (UK) He is a human rights lawyer, who has uncovered evidence that U.S. troops have tortured detainees in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. He is an attorney with the Birmingham-based Public Interest Lawyers. RANA M. MUSTAFA (Iraq) Film maker and human rights activist. RICHARD FALK (USA) Professor of International Law at Santa Barbara University. UNESCO peace prize holder. Prof. Falk has published over 30 books on international law and human rights, the most recent one entitled Declining World Order. SAMIR AMIN (Egypt/Senegal) Egyptian-born and trained in Paris, he is one of the better known thinkers of his generation, both in development theory as well as in the relativistic-cultural critique of social sciences. Currently occupies the post of Director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal, an international pool of academics from Africa, Asia and South-America. Being a promoter of the conscious self-reliance of developing countries, he has written extensively on economics, development and international affairs. SAUL LANDAU (USA) Film Producer and academician. Produced more than 40 films on social, political and historical issues. Winner of the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Prize, the George Polk Investigative Journalism Prize, the Edgar Allen Poe Prize, and Emmy Award. His latest film is Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place, and his latest book is The Business of America: How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend?

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SAYO SARUTA (Japan) Saruta is a lawyer. She chaired the panel of prosecution in both the ICTA and ICTI, two civilian tribunal initiatives on Afghanistan and Iraq, respectively. SOUAD NAJI AL-AZZAWI (Iraq) Director of the doctorate program in environmental engineering. She studied geological and environmental engineering in the USA. After graduating in 1991, she returned home to Baghdad in the midst of the Gulf War. In 1996, together with six researchers, she was able to do a survey on the radiation in the soil, air and water in southern Iraq. THOMAS FASY (USA) Dr. Fasy is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pathology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He has longstanding interests in carcinogenesis and environmental toxicology. In the past two years, he has lectured at conferences and university campuses on the toxic effects of inhaling uranium oxide dusts derived from depleted uranium weapons. He is collaborating in a research project designed to assess the extent to which Iraqi children have been contaminated with uranium derived from DU weapons. TIM GOODRICH (USA) Coming from a family with a tradition of military service, in his childhood Tim Goodrich always dreamed of becoming an air force pilot. During his deployment in Saudi Arabia in October 2002, around the time the Bush administration started talking about going into war, he started to research on, and later question, the legitimacy of this war. On the return home from his tour of duty two weeks after the US invasion of Iraq, he joined the ranks of anti-war demonstrations in U.S. and co-found Iraq Veterans Against the War in 2004. TURGUT TARHANLI (Turkey) Professor of international law and human rights law; Director of the Human Rights Law Research Center, Istanbul Bilgi University. He has published many articles and books on subjects like international human rights law, peace and security law, and law and technology. WALDEN BELLO (Philippines) Director of Focus on the Global South in Bangkok, a project of Chulalongkorn University's Social Research Institute and Professor of Public Administration and Sociology at the University of the Philippines. His interest areas are regionalism and Globalization, International Financial Institutions, WTO, Alternative Security in the Asia-Pacific. He is also chairman of the board of Greenpeace Southeast Asia. WAMIDH NADHMI (Iraq)

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Professor of Political Science at Baghdad University and the official spokesman of antioccupation front Iraqi National Foundation Congress composed of academics, community leaders, religious scholars and veteran moderate Arab-nationalist politicians, which offers the credibility of members largely due to a record of independence or opposition to Saddam Hussain's policies on the one hand, and to the history of criminal sanctions, invasion and occupation. He is also editor-in-chief of Baghdad based journal Ruyat-ul Arap. WTI ISTANBUL COORDINATION - CONTENT COMMITTEE (Turkey) The Content Committee of the WTI Istanbul Coordination is composed of Ayça Çubukçu, Ayşe Berktay, Hilal Küey, Hülya Üçpınar and Müge Gürsoy Sökmen. The Committee will make a collective presentation on the WTI process. For more information: International Media Co-ordinator Tolga Temuge, or WTI Office in Istanbul + 90 212 244 7370

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