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23 Aug 2012, 1:26 am
Victor John Sifton, 47, a Canadian citizen, was convicted by a federal jury of five counts of wire fraud stemming from a hard money lending scam perpetrated by Sifton and a co-conspirator, Jason Lawson, 45, a former Park City mortgage broker. [read post]
6 May 2009, 10:35 am
The researcher, John Sifton, worked for five years for Human Rights Watch. [read post]
25 Aug 2009, 7:36 pm
I'm seeing Dan Froomkin's criticism of AG Eric Holder and Obama's "baby steps" towards "justice for Bush's torturers" and John Sifton at the Daily Beast's criticism of the heavy redactions in the CIA document dump. [read post]
30 Apr 2017, 12:58 pm
“By essentially endorsing Duterte’s murderous war on drugs, Trump is now morally complicit in future killings,” said John Sifton, the Asia director of Human Rights Watch. [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 12:45 pm by Kenneth Anderson
 Speakers: Benjamin Davis, David Crane, John Sifton, Richard Wilson; moderated by Allison Lefrak. [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 2:25 am
Principals are our colleagues John Sifton, who's just finished a gig as senior researcher on terrorism and counterterrorism for Human Rights Watch, and Jonathan Horowitz, an investigator and researcher who's worked with HRW, too, and also with U.N. agencies and New York University's Center for Human Rights & Global Justice. [read post]
4 Mar 2007, 7:08 pm
. “This is the kind of thing you hear when you’re litigating cases in Egypt or Morocco or Karachi,” said John Sifton, a lawyer with Human Rights Watch, one of a number of groups that has criticized the U.S. government’s treatment of Padilla. “It is simply not credible that they would have lost this tape. [read post]
3 Apr 2007, 7:13 pm
John Sifton, a Human Rights Watch expert on counter-terrorism, went further. [read post]
Human Rights Watch’s John Sifton encouraged members of the international community to support the political prisoners’ demands for democracy in Vietnam. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 1:57 pm by Ilya Somin
To its credit, CNN went on to publish a piece by John Sifton of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division that takes a more realistic view of the reasons why North Koreans express support for their brutal government: Since Kim Jong Il’s death was announced...., many people have marveled at the mourning scenes featured on North Korean state television, made viral on the Internet: North Koreans prostrate, weeping, hitting the ground. [read post]
26 Aug 2023, 8:18 am by Just Security
by Sareta Ashraph (@SaretaAshraph) Myanmar / Diplomacy The Myanmar Military Wants the World to Give Up by John Sifton (@johnsifton) Arms Trade / Human Rights How the Arms Trade Treaty CSP9 Risks Repeating Past Mistakes by Tara Van Ho (@TaraVanHo) Surveillance: United Kingdom Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law by Ioannis Kouvakas (@IoannisKouvakas) Arab League / Repression An Arab League Interpol-Like Security Network Puts Dissidents and Human Rights… [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 7:56 am
John Sifton, a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch, said the group investigated many of Lagouranis’s claims about abuses and independently corroborated them. [read post]
Human Rights Watch Asia Advocacy Director John Sifton contended that the UN Security Council’s inaction demonstrated a conflicting approach with the UN Human Rights Council. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 10:20 am by Michael Markarian
Scott Sifton, D-96, Eileen McGeoghegan, D-77, Margo McNeil, D-78, and Jill Schupp, D-82, and offered amendments to restore some basic animal welfare standards, such as space requirements and making sure cages are cleaned once a day. [read post]
10 Dec 2014, 11:46 am by Benjamin Bissell
The Post also has CIA Director John Brennan’s rebuttal to the study. [read post]
  The letter was never sent, but as John Sifton of Human Rights Watch has noted, it’s clear evidence that the CIA knew what it wanted to do was unlawful, and did it anyway. [read post]
22 May 2007, 10:25 am
John Sifton of Human Rights Watch adds: "It is better to speak of it as a divergence between the military and the White House," rather than the military and the CIA, he said. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 11:26 am by Michael Markarian
John Conyers won the Democratic primary in the 13th Congressional District, both by wide margins. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 11:51 am by Michael Markarian
District Representative Yes % No % 39 Jean Peters-Baker 81.5 18.5 60 Jamilah Nasheed 80.8 20.2 58 Penny Hubbard 80.5 20.6 63 Tishaura Jones 80.4 20.6 59 Jeanette Mott Oxford 78.8 21.2 61 Chris Carter 78.8 21.2 67 Mike Colona 78.8 21.2 64 Susan Carlson 78.5 21.5 44 Jason Kander 77.8 22.2 37 Mike Talboy 77.5 22.5 73 Stacey Newman 77 23 57 Karla May 76.7 23.3 66 Genise Montecillo 76.4 23.6 108 Jacob Hummel 76.2 23.8 72 Rory Ellinger 76.1 23.9 41 Shalonn Curls… [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 9:00 am
The author of the essay that follows, John Sifton, is an attorney and private investigator, and the director of One World Research, an investigation firm specializing in human rights and public interest cases. [read post]