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Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Scottish Court Holds Prison Phone Call Imprinting Violates European Convention On Human Rights by Lord Glennie of the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Scotland ruled that the blanket policy of imprinting all prisoner originated phone calls with the warning, "This call originates from a Scottish prison" violated the European Convention …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
European Court of Human Rights Awards Russian Prisoner $20,060 For Overcrowding by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 29, 2007, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, awarded a Russian prisoner 15,000 Euros ($20,060) in damages for incarcerating him in extremely overcrowded conditions. On November 26, 2001, …
Article • November 15, 2007
A Guantanamo Index by Joanne Mariner By JOANNE MARINER Wednesday, Nov. 07, 2007 Year in which Cuba signed a perpetual lease giving the United States "complete jurisdiction and control" over the Guantanamo Bay naval station: 1903 Number of days that the longest-held detainees have, to date, been held without charge …
Serra v. Lappin, CA, Amended Complaint, Bivens Action - Renumeration for Prison Work, 2007 Case3:07-cv-01589-MJJ Document21 Filed10/29/07 Page1 of 13 JOHN lV1l.JRCKO, SB#47008 2831 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, California 94608 Telephone: (510) 465-2241 STEPHEN PERELSON, SB#43032 285 Miller Avenue Mill Valley, CA 94941 (415) 383-1070 \VILLIAM M. SIMPICH, SB# 106672 1736 …
Argentine priest receives life sentence for dirty war crimes committed in 1970-80's by Marie Trigona Argentina: Priest Imprisoned for Dirty War Crimes Written by Marie Trigona Tuesday, 16 October 2007 Former Chaplin Christian Von Wernich was sentenced to life in prison on October 9th in Argentina, for committing crimes against …
UN Committee Against Torture Wants Guantanamo Closed by by Matthew T. Clarke The United Nations Committee Against Torture (the committee) has published a report urging the closure of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Guantanamo). In doing so, the committee of nine international experts stated that the indefinite detention …
Clergyman to Stand Trial for "Dirty War" Crimes in Argentina by Marie Trigona | July 25, 2007 A much awaited human rights abuse trial is underway in Argentina. The accused is a catholic priest charged with carrying out human rights abuses while working in several clandestine detention centers during the …
Corporate Prison Boom, Immigration, And The Law by By Tilda Sosaya Prison construction is booming in the USA, and New Mexico has been the guinea pig for the largest of the private prison corporations like Corrections Corporation of America, Cornell, GEO Corp. (aka, Wackenhut, Group 4 Falk) and MTC. In …
Article • May 15, 2007
International Treaties Cannot Be Enforced By Individuals by The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights "does not create judicially-enforceable individual rights. Treaties affect United States law only if they are self-executing or otherwise given effect by congressional legislation." (1283) See: United States v. Duarte-Acero, 296 F.3d 1277 (11th Cir. …
Palestinian Prisoners and International Law by By Audrey Bomse INTRODUCTION: Since 1967, well over 650,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza have been detained by Israel for resisting the Occupation. This constitutes approximately 20% of the total Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories and 40% of the total male …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
Vienna Convention Creates Individually Enforceable Rights by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke In a ground-breaking decision the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Vienna Convention) created individual rights to consular notification that may be enforced in a civil action. Thus, …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Supreme Court: No Exclusionary Rule for Vienna Convention Violations by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On June 28, 2006, the Supreme Court held that violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Notification (Convention) do not require exclusion of evidence from a criminal trial and are subject to procedural default …
Supreme Court Says No to Trial by Military Commission for Gitmo Prisoners by Matthew T. Clarke On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court held that prisoners being held in the military concentration camp prisons at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo), could not be tried by the special military tribunals set up …
Prisoner Rape Is Torture by Stop Prisoner Rape The U.S. has arrived at a critical moment of truth in addressing the sexual violence that plagues its prisons and jails. The failure of Departments of Corrections nationwide to prevent sexual abuse behind bars and to adequately respond to those who have …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Arizona Jail Prisoners Not Pretty in Pink by Gary Hunter Paraded in pink boxers, pink flip-flops and pink handcuffs more than 2,600 Arizona prisoners walked four blocks to new jail facilities in downtown Phoenix. Most moved from the Madison Street Jail, which closed for remodeling, to either the Towers Jail, …
Article • January 15, 2006 • from PLN January, 2006
President Bush Orders Compliance With World Court Order, Withdraws From Optional Protocol by by Matthew T. Clarke President Bush has ordered the states to comply with a March 2004 decision of the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court. In that decision the World Court ruled that …
Article • October 15, 2005 • from PLN October, 2005
U.S. Finally Outlaws Execution of Children by by Marjorie Cohn Today, the Court repudiated the misguided idea that the United States can pledge to leave no child behind while simultaneously exiling children to the death chamber. Dr. William F. Schulz, Executive Director, Amnesty International Until March 1, 2005, the United …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Guantánamo: What the World Should Know by Jules Siegel Guantánamo: What the World Should Know By Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 184 pages Review by Jules Siegel We have by now all seen much of this material before, but reading it all in one piece, told …
Guantanamo: Nine Months after the Supreme Court Victory, the Island Remains a Prison Beyond the Law. by Rachel Meeropol By Rachel Meeropol Consider the situation of Moazzam Begg. He is a 35 year old man with dual British and Pakistani citizenship. In early 2002, he was seized from his apartment …
Abu Ghraib's Stain on Military Medicine by Steven Miles by Steven H. Miles, MD This article examines the relationship of military medical personnel to abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. It is based on testimony before the US Senate and …
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