The really disturbing thing about cases such as Martin's and Lawrence's is that they reveal how cavalierly states abuse this responsibility.
The U.S. is hardly a paragon of virtue when it comes to states abusing licensing procedures to protect politically connected incumbent businesses.
Now that we also have a reversal of the burden of proof, the measures which the European Commission takes when Member States abuse the procedures for protecting our markets are pretty good.
Yet Morocco is still marked by violence and state abuses.
This is not the first time Egyptians have created an app to counter state abuses.
My mother worked at the human rights centre Memorial, where she gathered evidence of state abuses, while also delivering aid and medication to those in need.
EGYPT The Prosecutor General's office ordered the arrest of 47 state security officers accused of burning documents, in an attempt to placate protesters who said information had been destroyed to cover up state abuses and violations, Reuters reported.
And yet even he was unsettled by Monday's experience — despite having fought state abuses for a decade and having dealt with various reprisals, including a flimsy criminal case and two jail terms.
OMAN Dozens of protesters staged a sit-in Saturday in Muscat, the capital, to demand investigations into allegations of state abuses after clashes with security forces left at least one person dead, The Associated Press reported.
From the uprisings at the end of the cold war, to Serbia in 2000, to the "colour revolutions" in Georgia and Ukraine, techniques have evolved that increase the cost of state abuses and make the opposition's innocence plain.
If the "Victims' Law" is to effect a real reconciliation with the innocents of Colombia's violence, a thorough inquisition of state and non-state abuses must be carried out, and the perpetrators brought to trial.
