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  • Bush’s Lethal Legacy: More Executions
    16 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US already kills more of its prisoners than almost any other country. Now the White House plans to cut the right of appeal of death row inmates… by Andrew Gumbel
    The Bush administration is preparing to speed up the executions of criminals who are on death row across the United States, in effect, cutting out several layers of appeals in the federal courts so that prisoners can be “fast-tracked” to their deaths.
    With less than 18 months to go to secure a presidential legacy, President (…)

  • On the day Libby’s prison sentence was lifted, Mordechai VANUNU was sentenced to prison, again
    8 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Libby and Vanunu On the day Libby’s prison sentence was lifted, Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to prison, again, in Israel
    By Dr. Daniel Ellsberg
    Global Research, July 6, 2007
    On the day that Scooter Libby’s prison sentence was lifted by President Bush, Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to prison, again, in Israel. In both cases, the underlying offense was the same: speaking to journalists. In each case, the nominal charges were otherwise. For Libby, lying under oath about the (…)

  • The Ongoing War on Native American Religious Practices By LEONARD PELTIER
    18 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Racist Restrictions in the US Prison System The Ongoing War on Native American Religious Practices
    By LEONARD PELTIER
    Religious freedom is a fundamental right of all, including American Indians, yet the struggle to preserve and protect our religion has always been a difficult one. More so when incarcerated Native Americans are concerned who tend to be given second rate acknowledgement by prison officials and mainstream faiths.
    In 1984 Robert Wilson, (Standing Deer) Albert Garza and I (…)

  • Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Fate Decided on Thursday May 17
    17 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Audio Interview and News: Philadelphia Court Hearing Could Decide Fate of Imprisoned Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal (14:33) - “In Philadelphia, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s legal team is preparing for a hearing that could decide the fate of the imprisoned former Black Panther. Abu-Jamal has been on death row for 25 years after being convicted of killing a police officer following a controversial trial before a (…)

  • Greek riot police prepare attack against prisoners
    25 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Athens - Riot police prepared to mount an attack on a high-security prison in central Greece after inmates refused to return to their cells and set fires in protest over prison abuses for the third straight day. Police surrounded a Malandrino prison in central Greece after some 150 inmates remained on the roof of the prison. Television reports showed many of them setting fires and carrying sticks and cement rocks.
    The inmates are protesting the beating of a prisoner and poor sanitary (…)

  • MCA HEADED FOR SUPREMES
    26 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Fisher
    Following an appeals court’s divided decision upholding the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act, opponents of the measure are racing the clock to file an appeal to the US Supreme Court and have it heard during the court’s current term.
    A spokesperson for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the New York-based legal advocacy group that brought the original suit, told IPS it expected the appeal to be filed within the next two weeks and heard in the spring. (…)

  • Thousands of illegal aliens held in camps and legal limbo
    19 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thousands of illegal aliens held in camps and legal limbo
    Feb 18 3:49 PM US/Eastern
    The US government is holding growing numbers of illegal immigrants in jails far from their lawyers and family, and even sometimes in tents, where their rights are not respected, civil liberties groups say.
    "It’s like Guantanamo Bay, but these people are not terrorists. They are just immigrants," Brent Wilkes, national executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), told AFP. (…)

  • LAWMAKERS AND LAWYERS CHALLENGE BUSH ADMINISTRATION MILITARY COMMISSIONS
    18 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    In the face of multiple legal and legislative challenges, President George W. Bush this week issued an executive order to allow cases against prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to move forward to trials by military tribunals.
    The challenges are to the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA), which Bush signed into law last October. The first three cases to be tried under the law involve an Australian, a Yemeni, and a Canadian, all held at (…)

  • Shut Down The Guantanamo Penal Colony, Now!
    12 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “A stain on the character of the United States.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in speaking of the U.S. gulag at Guantanamo, Cuba
    Washington, D.C. - If there is any one thing that reflects the utter evil that is the collective psyche of the Bush-Cheney Gang, it’s the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo). Torture and humiliation of detainees has been the norm there, as well as holding prisoners indefinitely without charges or trial. The U.S. Constitution is regularly shredded there and (…)

  • Pakistan secretly holds hundreds in prisons
    28 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A girl holds a placard as she protests against the disappearance of her father, who is believed to have been taken into detention in connection with the U.S.-led war on terror, in Rawalpindi December 28, 2006.
    Police broke up a protest by dozens of relatives of missing people and detained some as they tried to march towards the military headquarters.
    Rawalpindi, Pakistan - December 28, 2006
    James Rupert, Newsday
    Thursday, December 28, 2006
    (12-28) PST Rawalpindi, Pakistan — In the (…)