TUCSON, Ariz. (A.W.)—Renowned linguistics professor and political activist Noam Chomsky has called the penal case against the signatories of the “Academics for Peace” petition a “shocking miscarriage of justice, which friends of the Turkish people can only view with dismay.”
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Outrageous claims against, and punishments for, people demanding freedom of speech & basic human rights are not new. The labels “terrorist” and “terrorism” are as arbitrary as the decisions taken against them. Still, the tired saying, ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’ loses what’s left of its zing when Human Rights workers and Human Rights organizations are at the top of the list of threats to national security.