Category Archives: Political-Prisoners
Jorge Videla, Argentina’s Ex-Military Leader, Dies in Jail · Global Voices
Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina’s former president, died on May 17, 2013, at the age of 87 in a jail cell where he was imprisoned. Videla ruled between 1976 and 1981, during Argentina’s military dictatorship, a period marked by death that left thousands of people missing [es]. In 1983 the former dictator was judged and condemned […]
Assata Shakur was convicted of murder. Is she a terrorist? – The Washington Post
Today, there are more than 100 academic definitions of terrorism, said Steve Chermak, a professor at Michigan State University who helps to operate a database of extremist crime. His database goes back only to the 1990s, but if it went back further it would include Shakur based on its definition of terrorism, which asks only […]
The Maya Genocide Trial of Rios Montt : The New Yorker
Ríos Montt and Rodríguez Sánchez are charged with being the intellectual authors of a savage campaign against the Ixil Maya, a stubbornly independent group of perhaps a hundred thousand Indians who speak their own language and inhabit a lyrically beautiful region of the northern highlands, where the Cuchumatan mountains descend in long green folds toward […]
Sen. Eric Adams: NYPD Commissioner Told Me Cops Use Stop-and-Frisk to Instill Fear in Youths of Color | Alternet
April 1, 2013 | On Monday, New York State Senator Eric Adams testified in federal court that NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told him the policing tactic stop-and-frisk is used to instill fear in young men of color. “[NYPD Commissioner Kelly] stated that he targeted and focused on that group because he wanted to instill fear […]
Palestinians say Israel ‘tortured’ detainee – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
Arafat Jaradat’s autopsy showed torture resulting from fractures in his body and bruises in his face, while his heart was in good condition, said Issa Qaraqaa, the minister in charge of prisoner affairs, citing a Palestinian doctor who took part in the autopsy. “These results prove Israel killed him,” Qaraqaa told a news conference on […]
Israel denies ‘Prisoner X’ Zygier was in contact with ASIO | Hobsons Bay Weekly
Seeking to put an end to speculation that the Australian suspected of spying for Mossad was arrested for also passing information to ASIO, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied Ben Zygier had any contact with Australia’s intelligence agency. In a statement released overnight, Mr Netanyahu’s office stressed “the late Mr Zygier had no […]
Palestinians Rally for Hunger Striker | Palestine Chronicle
Israeli soldiers have clashed with Palestinian protesters at a rally in support of a prisoner observing an hunger strike to protest his incarceration. The Israeli military said about 200 Palestinians threw rocks at soldiers who responded with tear gas during Friday’s rally outside Ofer prison in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The protesters called for the […]
Extraordinary Rendition Report Finds More Than 50 Nations Involved In Global Torture Scheme
At least 54 countries including Syria, Iran, Sweden, Iceland, and UK offered CIA “covert support” to detain, transport, interrogate and torture suspects in the years following the 9/11 attacks, according to a new report. The 213-page report released by the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), a New York-based human rights organization, documents wide-ranging international involvement […]
ACLU suing Philadelphia law enforcement over 45-day detention of man who filmed cops — RT
The American Civil Liberties Union is taking Philadelphia law enforcement to court over the arrest of a man for recording police on his cell phone. The rights group says recording public officials’ actions is protected by the First Amendment. Christopher Montgomery v. City of Philadelphia, as the complaint is formally titled, describes how Montgomery recorded […]
Common Rights: Genocide Warnings and Updates
Gerald and Maas began publishing the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide with primary supportive international treaties, in 1989, when it was out of print at the United Nations, and a year before the U.S. and Coalition began the invasion and destruction of Iraq (for the 1996 Canadian edition see: […]
