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Friday, June 24, 2011

Fwd: [bangla-vision] prisoner news



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From: LGR <taliba.quran@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:54 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] prisoner news
To: LGR <dazeylin@gmail.com>


 

 

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BREAKING NEWS: US House of Representatives Disrupted With Calls to "Close Guantanamo!"

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:56 PM PDT

Witness Against Torture Interrupts a Vote on the House Floor with the call "Close Guantanamo!"

Contacts: Matt Daloisio – 201-264-4424, daloisio@earthlink.net Frida Berrigan – 347-683-4928 frida.berrigan@gmail.com

WASHINGTON, DC – While the US House of Representatives chamber filled for a vote today at 4:40pm, Representatives' eyes and ears turned toward the Chamber's gallery as a

Secret documents flag Tory spin on conditions in Afghan jails

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:27 PM PDT

Allan Woods and Bruce Campion-Smith Ottawa Bureau

OTTAWA—Federal officials worried that the Conservatives' rosy public pronouncements on Afghan detainees were starkly at odds with the grim reality in Kandahar jails that failed to meet basic international standards, documents reveal.

One memo to then foreign affairs minister Lawrence Cannon in November 2007 warned of

McConnell Rips Holder on Terror Trials

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:14 PM PDT

FD Editor's Note:  Let him rip – at least Holder seems concerned about the rule of law…wish it extended to the new "indefinite detentions" at Guantanamo though….and lets face it – these two shouldn't have been arrested in the first place…

By Olga Belogolova

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says Attorney General

Minnesota judge upholds indictments in terror case

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 09:27 AM PDT

by Ellen Cannon

Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis refused to dismiss indictments against two Minnesota women accused of funneling money to the terror group al- Shabaab in Somalia.

In a written opinion delivered on June 21, 2011, the Judge stated that Amina Farah Ali,34, and Hawo Mohamed Hassen, 63, both naturalized U.S.

Pelican Bay Prison – July 1 Hunger Strike – Statement

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 08:36 PM PDT

Greetings,

I am writing from behind the walls of Corcoran State Prison and am in an isolation super max section (i.e. short corridor) behind political beliefs not compatible to the state, and therefore isolated not only from general population, but also other prisoners. I am writing to inform your organization that we prisoners here

Canada says documents clear its troops of allegation they knew of torture of Afghan detainees

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 08:10 PM PDT

TORONTO — Canada released declassified documents Wednesday that it said cleared military officials of charges that they ignored evidence that Taliban prisoners handed over to Afghanistan's intelligence service were being tortured.

The main opposition party, however, questioned the findings, saying it had no faith in an ad-hoc committee of Parliament members who reviewed the

 

 

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