Portal:Current events/2003 October 22
October 22, 2003 (Wednesday)
- India launches a peace initiative to normalise relations with Pakistan. Formal talks are conditional on Islamabad ending Kashmiri cross-border terrorism initiatives.[1]
- Mahathir Mohamad, outgoing prime minister of Malaysia, accuses leading democratic nations of terrorising the world. He seemed to be referring to the US, Israel, and Australia.[2]
- Occupation of Iraq: The commander of US ground forces in Iraq says that Al-Qaeda is now operating in Iraq as witnessed by increasingly sophisticated attacks on US troops.[3]
- European Union and Guantanamo Bay: Leaders of the European Union parliament urge the EU to take action over 26 Europeans being held indefinitely by the US without charges, without trial, without legal representation at Guantanamo Bay. The detainees are experiencing increasing psychological problems.[4]
- Human Rights Watch (HRW) releases a report about mentally ill inmates of United States prisons. It concludes that mentally ill offenders are frequently physically abused, punished by staff for self-destructive behavior and not given the treatment they need.[5]
- Top British runner Dwain Chambers tests positive for the drug tetrahydrogestrinone (THG). The steroid was previously believed to be undetectable but an anonymous source provided a used syringe containing traces last week.[6]
- ^ [1] Archived March 1, 2004, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "BBC NEWS - Asia-Pacific - Mahathir attacks 'state terrorism'". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 15, 2005. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "BBC NEWS - Americas - Europe urges Guantanamo action". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ [2] Archived October 17, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "BBC SPORT - Athletics - Chambers fails drugs test". Retrieved 22 December 2015.