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Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Freedom Sought for Spanish Political Prisoner by Juan Manuel Perez Hernandez is a 40 year old telecommunications engineer serving a 30 year sentence for his militancy in GRAPO (Anti Fascist Resistance Group, First of October, a communist organization). He is married and has a daughter. He has been in prison …
Testimonies that Palestinian Prisoners Are Tortured by A human rights group confirmed on April 1, 1992, that the Israelis have allowed security services to routinely practice torture against Palestinian prisoners. The group, called the "Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Arab Territories" known as B'tselem, said violence and …
Peruvian Prisoners Massacred by Paul Wright On May 5, 1992, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori staged a coup with backing from the Peruvian military which suspended that countries parliament, constitution, writ of habeas corpus and other legal provisions. The reasons he gave for the coup were that he needed greater freedom …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Criticism of Peru Articles by Iam a Native American transsexual incarcerated in Pelican Bay SMU. I am a jailhouse lawyer and paralegal student, and learned of PLN through fellow jailhouse lawyers here. Thank you for your free subscription as a control unit prisoner. I myself pass the newsletter around to …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
South Africa Suspends Executions by On March 27, 1992, the South African government announced a temporary moratorium on executions in Pretoria. The Minister of Justice said that executions have been suspended until an interim bill of rights has been agreed upon in negotiations between the government and the African National …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Convict Heritage Comes Through in Australia by Convict Heritage Comes Through In Australia In an article on the abrasive, hard-edged world of Australian journalism, a Christian Science Monitor writer notes that the continent's "convict heritage...also acts to restrict the press. Once a convict was given `ticket of leave,' allowing a …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
U.S. Made Prison Products in China's News by U.S. Made Prison Products In China's News China, taking the offensive in its spat with Washington over prisoner-made products, recently saturated its national media with an American magazine's account of U.S. industry's profitable exploitation of American prisoners. China's national television news and …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Burmese Prisoners Used as Cannon Fodder by Burmese Prisoners Used As Cannon Fodder Phobahta, Burma. The Burmese army has been emptying out its prisons to use social prisoners to clear landmines and act as porters in its current military offensive. Burma has been ruled by military governments since 1960. After …
Mass Graves Found in Venezuelan Prison by Mass Graves Found In Venezuelan Prison A common grave containing the remains of at least 40 prisoners was recently uncovered in a Venezuelan prison located in the central city of San Juan de Moros. The discovery has raised serious questions about the country's …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
People's War in Peru by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In 1980 the Communist Party of Peru (PCP, also known in the media as Sendero Luminoso or Shining Path) launched a popular war of liberation in Peru. The PCP is Maoist in orientation and receives no outside support from any …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Reply from Germany by Families of Political Prisoners Reply From Germany We are referring to the readers letter from Germany in your issue from November 1991.The writer, D.D., is giving the misleading impression that all RAF prisoners were betraying each other for personal gain. This is applying only to those …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Occupation Justice: The Israeli Treatment of Palestinians by In February 1985 the Ramallah Military Court inflicted five years' imprisonment upon a 13-year old boy from Dheishe Refugee Camp, in the course of an "instant trial" lasting not more than one afternoon. Following that trial, Jerusalem peace activists Gideon Spiro wrote …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Letter from China by Cao Qui Li Letter From China Thank you for the Prisoners Legal News. It is not only a source of some news from the prisons in the U.S.A., but also a window through which I can see the prisoners' live in other countries. I enjoyed it …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Plea for Help by Plea For Help Demba Diop is a Mauritanian expatriate confined at the Rheinbach prison in Germany on fabricated charges. Demba is the only black prisoner of the 500 prisoners at Rheinbach. Demba has been an active participant of the FLAM (Forces de Liberation Africaine de Mauritanie) …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Canadian Officials May End Ban on Sex Between Prison Inmates by Rod Mikleburgh Canadian Officials May End Ban On Sex Between Prison Inmates by Rod Mickleburgh Toronto Globe and Mail TORONTO - Canadian federal corrections officials are considering an end to the ban on sex between prisoners, in light of …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Chilean Political Prisoners End Hungerstrike by On November 13, 1991, four Chilean political prisoners ended a 44-day hungerstrike. 24 hours after a street demonstration supporting them had culminated with the detention of 252 people by police. The announcement was formulated by the hungerstrikers themselves in the hospital where they were …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Abuses Continue at Ansar 3 by Abuses Continue At Ansar 3 Ansar 3 is a detention camp built by the Israeli government 70 kilometers south of Beersheba to hold the prisoners of the Palestinian Intifada. It is in the middle of the Negev desert and holds 6,000 prisoners at any …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Letter from Germany by Letter From Germany I can't understand why these pigs have no courage to oblige their own masters to share the lot with them, instead harassing prisoners. I've read also the story about the T-shirt that the pigs didn't want to give to Paul. Pigs are like …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Prison Repression in Spain by Jose Jimenez Fernandez Prison Repression In Spain The prison Meco is 30 kilometers from Madrid. It is a maximum security super prison where torture is most of ten practiced against the prisoners. Currently they have stopped beating prisoners a little but there is all kinds …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Tim Anderson Free by PLN readers may recall previous stories concerning Tim Anderson. Tim was convicted in 1979 of bombing the Hilton hotel in Sydney, Australia in a failed assassination attempt of the Indian prime minister, killed instead were a policeman and two sanitation workers. In 1986 Tim was released …
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