Arab Media Watch chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi was interviewed on BBC 1's 10pm news on January 12 regarding the British detainees facing release from Guantanamo Bay.
Also on January 12, AMW director Victor Kattan's analysis of the EU's role in the Middle East peace process was published by Lebanon's leading English-language Daily Star newspaper.
AMW director Tahrir Swift's BBC interview regarding the Iraqi elections was published on its website on January 14.
Nashashibi spoke of the reputation of Guanatano and Abu Ghraib as examples of US double standards in condemning human rights abuses while knowingly committing its own regardless of international revulsion and law.
He expressed concern that the British detainees might be released only to be detained under similar illegal circumstances (indefinitely without trial or charge) by UK terror laws.
Kattan's analysis is at:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_ID=10&article_ID=11729&categ_id=5
Swift's interview (using her maiden name Numan) is at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4169213.stm
"In principle, I am for holding elections in Iraq.
"But elections are supposed to empower the will of the majority of Iraqis. Are there any real choices for the Iraqis at present?
"Since the US invasion women do not leave their home unless they have to. Will they risk their lives in a queue outside a polling station?
"Only 10% of Fallujah refugees having returned to their devastated city and many Iraqis are without the opportunity to register let alone vote.
"I think it is inappropriate for Iraqi exiles to take part."