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Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
El Salvador Prison System in Crisis by On August 4, 1994, 300 prisoners at the San Miguel prison in El Salvador took a judge and his secretary hostage to protest prison conditions. The hostages were freed a few hours later after judicial officials signed an agreement to study the prisoners' …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
German Court Legalizes Soft Drugs by On April 28, 1994, the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany's highest court, ruled that possession of small quantities of hashish and marijuana should no longer be the subject of criminal penalties. The ruling came as the court affirmed the 1992 lower court ruling by Lubeck …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Swedish Prisoners Mutiny by On July 23, 1994, prisoners at the Tidaholm Prison, 200 miles Southwest of Stockholm, Sweden, refused to return to their cells at lock up time to protest the solitary confinement given to three prisoners after a fight earlier that day. Prison officials stated that some 115 …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
South American Prison News by Brazil: According to the Brazilian Ministry of Justice there are an average of two and a half riots a day in Brazilian prisons and jails. The Brazilian prison crisis became evident on March 15-16, 1994, when the Archbishop of Fortaleza was taken hostage by prisoners, …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
South African Prisoners Rebel by On June 10, 1994, prisoners in seven South African prisons rebelled, taking prison officials hostage and destroying prisons. Prisoners demanding an amnesty held a warden captive for nearly 24 hours at the Modderbee prison east of Johannesburg before releasing him. One prisoner was killed and …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Peru's Lawyers: A High Risk Profession by Jose Enrique Gonzalez Ruiz "In the eyes and ears of the sinister power, all of us are under suspicion." Oiga Magazine Feb 21, 1994, p.5 To defend political prisoners in Peru is a delicate matter. The war that has been going on in …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Indonesia's Final Solution to Crime by The American media was recently awash over the case of Michael Fay, an American youth sentenced to four months in jail and 6 lashes of a cane for vandalism by a court in Singapore. Singapore's laws and justice system received a fair amount of …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Medical Help Sought for Danish POW by An international campaign has been launched to obtain better conditions of confinement and medical care for Swiss militant Marc Rudin, who is currently serving an eight year prison sentence for alleged robbery in Denmark. Rudin is better known as Jihad Mansour, the movement …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Freedom for Political Prisoners by In July, 1992, different groups from around the world meeting in Munich, Germany over the 500th anniversary of the Columbus Encounter, formed a group called "Libertad!" around the goal of organizing an International Day of Action around the issue of political prisoners. The primary organizers …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
The Global Prison (Book Review) by David Gilbert The Human Rights Watch Global report On Prisons Edited by Aryeh Neier 303 pp. 1993. New York: Human Rights Watch. $20.00 (pb). Review by David Gilbert The Brazilian Military Police's wanton murder of 111 prisoners involved in a disturbance is just one …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
Drug Use Legalized in Columbia by On May 5, 1994, Columbia's Constitutional Court (the equivalent of the US Supreme Court) voted five to four that a 1986 law permitting the arrest of someone for carrying a "personal dose" of drugs was a violation of the country's new constitution. Court president …
Article • May 15, 1994 • from PLN May, 1994
Slaves of the State by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Many people have the mistaken impression that slavery was outlawed or abolished in the United States after the civil war by the passage of the 13th amendment. Unfortunately, that was not the case. The 13th amendment reads: "Neither slavery nor …
Algerian Prison Break by On March 10, 1994, guerrilla fighters of the Islamic front attacked the Tazult prison in the rugged Aures mountains of Algeria. Four guards were wounded and seven kidnapped during the attack which lead to at least 400 prisoners escaping. During the attack one guard and five …
Chilean Prisoners Resist Control Unit Move by On February 20, 1994, Chilean prison officials transferred 48 political prisoners, members of the anarchist Lautaro movement and the Marxist Frente Patriotico Manuel Rodriguez (FPMR), to a recently completed control unit (CU) built within the old penitentiary of Santiago. A total of 200 …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
British Govt Rolls Back Civil Rights by As part of the political and economic crisis racking all the capitalist countries the British government has recently passed it's version of a crime bill. Home Secretary Michael Howard says the bill is the most comprehensive attack on "crime" in three decades. This …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Mexican Prisoners Speak Out by [PLN is committed to keeping it's readers informed of those who are in prison as a result of the struggle for social and economic justice. By now everyone has heard about the rebellion which rocked Mexico when, on Jnauary 1, 1994, guerrillas of the Zapatista …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Brazilian Guard Gets 516 Years by On October 23, 1993, Celso Jose De Cruz, a military police investigator, was sentenced by a Brazilian judge to a record 516 years in prison for the murder of 18 prisoners. A jury had found Cruz, 46, guilty of all 18 counts of murder. …
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
Prison Takeovers, Austerity Protests Wind Down in Argentina by Awave of prison rebellions throughout Argentina ended on Dec. 22 when inmates in Bahia Blanca reached an agreement with government negotiators. The inmates turned the institution back over to authorities only after they agreed to address the prisoners' demands and promised …
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
PCP Responds to Allegations of Gay Persecution by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Since we began publishing PLN we have reported on struggle and conditions affecting political prisoners of diverse movements, groups and parties around the world, to include Palestinian, Irish, Puerto Rican, New Afrikan, Anti-imperialist and Peruvian prisoners to …
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
A Tomb in Columbia by Raul Zibecchi By Raul Zibecchi [The following article appeared in the December 10, 1993, edition of the Uruguayan weekly Brecha . It was translated and edited by PLN Editor Paul Wright. Given the fact that tens of thousands of Americans languish in prison as casualties …
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