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Frattini, David
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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Hamid Karzai sacrifices women's rights
The Afghan president Hamid Karzai approved a code of conduct on Wednesday that limits women's rights. It was drawn up by a religious council, the ulema, formed by 150 leading Islamic clerics. The code will throw the country years back, the liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera criticises: "In the president's house, the code of conduct drawn up by the mullahs already applies. His wife Zinat has not appeared in public for years, in accordance with the council's concepts which are based on the principle that men are important and women less important - which is why in future women will not be allowed to leave the home without a male escort. These rules are reminiscent of those applied under Taliban, who during their five years of rule introduced the full-body veil and denied women the right to education. … The Afghan president had promised women more rights. Now he is willing to sacrifice these rights in the name of negotiations with the Taliban - negotiations that both Karzai and the US have come to see as the only solution in the Afghan war."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Security Policy / Crises / War, » Gender equality, » U.S., » Afghanistan
Saudis smother demonstrations in Bahrain
The Gulf Cooperation Council has sent more than a thousand soldiers from Saudi Arabia to the Gulf state of Bahrain at the latter's request. In recent days and weeks there have been several violent clashes between the security forces of the Sunni monarchy and members of the country's mostly Shiite population. This deployment is the result of the Gulf states' fears of a revolutionary wave and of the Shiite-Sunni conflict spreading through the region, the liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera writes: "The oil allies fear that the revolts will spread. Not far from Bahrain lies Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, which is as rich in oil as it is in angry Shiites, who make up 70 percent of the population and the majority of the protesters in Bahrain. They are protesting against economic and political discrimination and demand a constitutional monarchy and the deposition of the Sunni dynasty which has been in power since 1783. ... Saudi Arabia's rivalry with Shiite Iran is forcing it to play the role of peacekeeper in the Gulf region. Riyadh wants stability, but its intervention threatens to provoke further reactions."
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More from the press review on the subject » Energy, » Gender equality, » Unrest / Riots, » Asia
A muzzle for the media
The liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera takes a look at the repression of foreign media reporting in Iran: "The bureaucrats at the Ministry of Culture have turned off the tap drop by drop. First the government ordered that journalists' work should be made more difficult, then they blocked it altogether. ... Never before has there been such a ban in the Islamic Republic. In 1999 it was prohibited to film or photograph the suppression of the student revolts. Now you can't even go [to the demonstrations] with a notepad in your hand to jot down your thoughts. ... Ahmadinejad's answer is that people needn't fear for the freedom of the press, because 'newspapers come and go'."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Press freedom, » Iran
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