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!"
- Secret documents flag Tory spin on conditions in Afghan jails
- McConnell Rips Holder on Terror Trials
- Minnesota judge upholds indictments in terror case
- Pelican Bay Prison – July 1 Hunger Strike – Statement
- Canada says documents clear its troops of allegation they knew of torture of Afghan detainees
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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