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Publication • February 12, 2016
10. Political Prisoners in the United States, ICCPR Coalition Report GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the occasion of its review of the U.S. Government’s Second & Third Periodic Report concerning its compliance with the ICCPR Political Prisoners in the United States Introduction Political prisoners …
Article • November 2, 2015
Revealed: The boom and bust of the CIA's secret torture sites by Crofton Black Revealed: The boom and bust of the CIA's secret torture sites by Crofton Black and Sam Raphael In spring 2003 an unnamed official at CIA headquarters in Langley sat down to compose a memo. It was …
Article • October 30, 2015
Basque Fighters Win Major European Human Rights Court Ruling by Derek Gilna Basque Fighters Win Major European Human Rights Court Ruling by Derek Gilna An October 2013 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has reversed a decision by the Spanish prosecutor’s office that had been used to …
Article • August 29, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons by Matthew Clarke Two Reports Find at Least 54 Countries Complicit in Secret CIA Prisons by Matt Clarke The Central Intelligence Agency operated a network of prisons around the globe where suspected terrorists were routinely tortured, and in …
UN Commission Approves Mandela Rules on Treatment of Prisoners by David Fathi UN Commission Approves Mandela Rules on Treatment of Prisoners by David Fathi [1] May 22, 2015 was a milestone in the global movement for prisoners’ rights. On that day, the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal …
Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails Smuggle Sperm to Impregnate Wives by Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails Smuggle Sperm to Impregnate Wives by Matt Clarke Authorities in Israel concede there is little they can do to stop a growing practice among Palestinian prisoners: smuggling their sperm out of prison in order …
Publication • April 1, 2015
All the President's Psychologists: APA Complicitiy with CIA Torture, 2015 ALL THE PRESIDENT’S PSYCHOLOGISTS: The American Psychological Association’s Secret Complicity with the White House and US Intelligence Community in Support of the CIA’s ”Enhanced” Interrogation Program April 2015 Authors Lead authors: Stephen Soldz, Ph.D. Nathaniel Raymond Steven Reisner, Ph.D. Co­authors: …
Article • March 5, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
The United States and Torture by William Blum The United States and Torture by William Blum Two of the things that governments tend to cover-up or lie about the most are assassinations and torture, both of which are widely looked upon as exceedingly immoral and unlawful, even uncivilized. Since the …
Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015
United States, Britain Offer Training to “Improve” Prison Conditions in Afghanistan by United States, Britain Offer Training to “Improve” Prison Conditions in Afghanistan While attempting to liberate Afghanistan from the tyranny of the Taliban, the U.S. and Great Britain have given the Afghans incarceration-related tools and training, ostensibly to improve …
Publication • December 14, 2014
CIA Torture Study, Senate Subcommittee, 2014 ^CLASSIFIED' Nofqrn TOP SECRET Senate Select Comiiiittee on Infelligeoee Committee Study ofthe CentralIntelligence Agmcy 's Detention and Interrogation Program SBg=53 Foreword by Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Bianne Feinstein Findings and Concliisioiis Executive Summary Approved Deeember 13,,2012 Updatedfor Release April 3, 2014 Deciassificatiori …
Article • October 3, 2014
13 Prisoners Die in Turkish Prison Fire by 13 Prisoners Die in Turkish Prison Fire   Thirteen prisoners died, five were injured seriously enough to require hospitalization and three guards suffered burns during a prison fire at the Suliufa prison near in southeast Turkey in June 2012. The prison is …
Publication • May 1, 2014
Prisoners of Injustice -- Palestinian PoW Report, NLG, 2014 PRISONERS OF INJUSTICE Report of the National Lawyers Guild Delegation to Palestine May 2014 Published November 2014 by the National Lawyers Guild. The National Lawyers Guild was formed in 1937 as the nation’s first racially integrated bar association to advocate for …
Venezuelan TV Station Fined $2.16 Million for Prison Reporting by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Globovisión is the last remaining Venezuelan television station that is openly critical of President Hugo Chávez. In May 2010, Globovisión president Guillermo Zuloaga was arrested for making offensive comments about Chávez while discussing a government …
Iraqi Prison Breaks Likely Inside Jobs by On September 27, 2012, prisoners at the Tasfirat prison in Tikrit seized weapons after breaking into a storage room, overpowered guards and engaged in a gun battle with security forces during an escape attempt. The late evening incident, which lasted several hours, left …
Guantanamo Detainees Cost $800,000 Annually by The U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has become the world’s most expensive prison, at around 30 times the average cost to house prisoners in detention facilities in the United States. Each year the Department of Defense “spends approximately ... $800,000 per detainee,” …
Vietnam Pardons 10,244 Prisoners but Few Dissidents by Derek Gilna Two Vietnamese activists jailed for advocating democracy were among more than 10,000 prisoners granted amnesty by Vietnam’s government on August 25, 2011 in celebration of National Day. Nguyen Van Tinh and Tran Duc Thach had been sentenced in 2009 to …
Bureau of Prisons Houses More “Terrorists” than Guantanamo by Derek Gilna According to the New York Times, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) confines more than twice as many prisoners for “terrorism-related” offenses than the controversial and oft-maligned U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “As of October 1, …
CIA Slammed for Torture Abuses at Secret Lithuanian Prisons by Derek Gilna Despite a lawsuit filed in the European Court of Human Rights by Saudi-born alleged terrorist Abu Zubaydah, Lithuanian prosecutors have declined to pursue charges related to two CIA-operated prisons located in that country. Human rights groups Amnesty International …
Seven Argentine Military Officials Sentenced for Crimes against Prisoners by During the time of Argentina’s American-backed dirty war against political dissidents, from 1976 to 1983, the military junta that was running the country ran a network of prisons and concentration camps, including a prison in a working class suburb of …
Rumsfeld, Military Officials Immune from Suit by Foreign Nationals Alleging Torture on Foreign Soil by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim On June 21, 2011, a divided D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of a district court that dismissed claims for damages and declaratory relief brought by nine foreign …
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