Category Slavery
US soldier admits killing family after raping girl | World news | The Guardian
The murders took place on March 12 in Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad. Prosecutors allege that five soldiers stationed at a checkpoint there raped the girl, Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, then burned her body to hide the evidence, and killed her father, mother and six-year-old sister.The alleged ringleader, Private Steven Green, was discharged from the […]
Anonymous calls for activists to help expose international paedophile networks with ‘Operation DeathEaters’ – Home News – UK – The Independent
Anonymous has issued a video instructing activists on how they can aid in the operation, which has appeared at a time of serious allegations of historic child sexual abuse levied against prominent UK figures, including claims that a VIP Westminster paedophile ring existed in the past. Recent allegations have led to the Met police’s investigation […]
U.S. lawsuit claims Prince Andrew slept with underage ‘sex slave’ | canada.com
Epstein, a disgraced hedge fund mogul who is registered as a sex offender, is being sued by women who say he loaned them out as sex slaves to his rich and powerful friends more than a decade ago, including Prince Andrew. According to The Guardian, the Duke of York was named in a motion by […]
Meet the Pro-Slavery Fairview Park Auxiliary Cop | Scene and Heard: Scene’s News Blog | Cleveland Scene
Over the past two years, McNamara has been commenting on YouTube videos — mostly about black people and law enforcement — regularly dropping racial and gay slurs, unambiguously expressing hatred towards minorities and anyone who dare not comply with what police say. He calls black people in videos “jungle monkeys,” “spooks,” and worse. He commented […]
Exclusive: U.S. to spend up to $550 million on African rapid response forces – PRN.fm – PRN.fm
The United States plans to partner with Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda to develop rapid response forces. Those forces would be ready to deploy as part of United Nations’ or African Union missions.“The United States doesn’t have a desire to expand and create a big footprint inside of Africa,” Obama said at a […]
Guards Won’t Face Charges For Death Of Inmate Ronald Spears
As The New York Times reported last year: Two of the inmates — Jesse James and Shawn Fraser — said in statements that Mr. Spear often complained about his medical care. He had a disagreement with an officer about his treatment, they said, and after he asked to see a captain, the officer grabbed his […]
China issues report on U.S. human rights – People’s Daily Online
BEIJING, Feb. 28 — China published a report on the United States’ human rights record on Friday, in response to U.S. criticism and “irresponsible remarks” about China.”The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2013″ was released by the Information Office of the State Council, China’s cabinet, in response to “Country Reports on Human […]
The Effects of Ignoring Systemic Racism | The Nation
This is what systemic racism looks like. Whether Kerrick or the officer who assaulted Manning have a personal animosity toward these young men because of their race doesn’t matter. What matters is the institutional mechanisms that degrade black life. Kerrick shot an unarmed Ferrell after receiving an emergency call that he was attempting to rob […]
President Obama should talk about race in America more often | Ana Marie Cox | Comment is free | theguardian.com
It\’s the \”openly\” that\’s a problem, of course. That, and the strong possibility that Obama was not referring to just those 1.5 million, but to some larger percentage of the 51% of Americans who disapprove of the job he\’s doing – a group that, statistically speaking, can\’t just consist of avowed racists. But who was […]
Guards May Be Responsible for Half of Prison Sexual Assaults – ProPublica
The report, released today by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, takes data collected by correctional administrators representing all of the nation’s federal and state prisons as well as many county jails. It shows that administrators logged more than 8,000 reports of abuse to their overseers each year between 2009 and 2011, up 11 percent from […]
Colorado regularly imprisons poor offenders unable to pay fines – ACLU — RT USA
Jails in multiple cities throughout Colorado regularly imprison people who were previously given a fine by a court but are simply too poor to pay it, according to a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union that calls for an end to this practice.The ACLU conducted investigations in municipal courts of Westminster, Wheat Ridge, […]
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