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Kevin Benderman, imprisoned solely for his conscientious objection to the war in Iraq, is now known to have had his request for parole denied
Best regards from France, Bernard Blanc. ***** URGENT ACTION APPEAL 23 May 2006 UA 208/05 (09 August 2005) and follow-up (05 September 2005) - Prisoner of conscience USA Kevin Benderman (m) Kevin... ...
Defying the torture school
Daily Camera by Linda Jacobson 05/21/06 On April 11, Joanne Cowan entered federal prison. This effect was a direct result of the fact that Joanne was protesting our government's complicity in torture.... ...
American Gulag: close the prison camps
A UNITED Nations committee report released yesterday has condemned US treatment of suspected terrorists. It has also called for the closing of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and secret terrorist... ...
How Does President Bush Compare with Other Wartime Presidents With Respect to Free Speech Issues?
The Bush Administration has been talking of using the Espionage Act of 1917 to prosecute the New York Times and the Washington Post. Yet these veteran newspapers' "crimes" consist merely of publishing... ...
UN body urges US to shut Guantanamo, "secret jails"
The United Nations top anti-torture body told the United States on Friday that any secret jails it ran for foreign terrorism suspects, along with the Guantanamo Bay facility, were illegal and should be... ...
They Track Journalists, Don't They?
ABC reported that the government had amassed the call records of tens of millions of Americans. One of the people who helped break that story is Brian Ross, an investigative reporter for ABC News who also... ...
Judge to decide if victim can sue CIA
CNN 05/12/06 The government urged a federal judge on Friday to block a lawsuit filed by a German national who says he was illegally held in a CIA-run prison in Afghanistan for four months and tortured.... ...
In Abduction Case, US Argues Secrecy Over Law
Invoking the need to protect "state secrets," the Justice Department urged a federal judge on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a man whose experience came to symbolize what some have called the unaccountability... ...
How Not to Fight Terrorism
David Cole writes, "At a secret CIA 'black site' prison, the United States is holding the alleged mastermind of Sept. 11, Khalid Sheik Mohammed. And at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it has Mohamed al-Qahtani,... ...
UN Hears Evidence of US Violations of Ban on Torture Treaty
The UN was grilling the United States on its compliance with the global ban on torture today for the first time since Washington declared war on terrorists, focusing on allegations of secret CIA prisons... ...