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  • Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Consequences of Covering Up : Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request
    On November 2, the Washington Post carried an explosive front-page story about secret Eastern European prisons set up by the CIA for the interrogation of terrorism suspects. While the Post article, by reporter Dana Priest, gave readers plenty of details, it also withheld the most crucial information—the location of these secret prisons—at the request of government officials.
    According (…)

  • In the Name of Justice
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Monica Benderman
    Kevin Benderman sits in jail. An injustice. He did not want to go. He did not take his stand, break a law and dare the courts to put him in jail with a stiff sentence. Kevin Benderman put his principles on the line and dared to trust that his rights would be respected as the constitution he fought to defend demands.
    Kevin Benderman did everything he could to demonstrate to the military, and to the world, that he did not want to go to jail, by consistently (…)

  • Col. Janis Karpinski, the Former Head of Abu Ghraib, Admits She Broke the Geneva Conventions
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    But Says the Blame "Goes All the Way to The Top”
    Karpinski, the highest-ranking officer demoted in connection with the torture scandal, speaks out about what happened at the Abu Ghraib prison. She discusses: How the military hid "ghost detainees" from the International Red Cross in violation of international law; Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller calling for the Gitmoization of Abu Ghraib and for prisoners to be "treated like dogs"; Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s secret memos on interrogation (…)

  • Force feeding is in itself torture
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Force feeding is in itself torture - Doctors and all military and government paid personnel involved are complicit in such torture and must be prosecuted for war crimes.
    One of the most...one of the most emotional things that I might say that I saw down there was the conditions and how they deteriorated within the time frame that I was there, the emotional and mental conditions of the prisoners themselves.
    I recall seeing, for example, two detainees permanently residing in the (…)

  • Paul Mitchell of Supremelaw.org responds to RELEASE: Prosecution of George W. Bush for Torture
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From Paul Mitchell of Supremelaw.org re: Oct 19 MEDIA RELEASE: Prosecution of George W. Bush for Torture Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:41:30 -0000
    "Paul Andrew Mitchell"
    Gail Davidson Lawyers Against the War Tel: +1 604 738-0338 Fax: +1 604 736-1175 Email: law@portal.ca Website: www.lawyersagainstthewar.org
    Greetings Gail Davidson:
    I am writing specifically to offer my assistance to you and to all Canadian courts of competent jurisdiction.
    George W. Bush is presently under formal (…)

  • MEDIA RELEASE: Prosecution of George W. Bush for Torture
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    World Exclusive
    MEDIA RELEASE
    October 19, 2005
    Prosecution of George W. Bush for Torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay Prisons
    Notification of Canadian Officials
    Lawyers against the War (L.A.W.) learned Nov 17, 2004 that George W. Bush was coming to Canada on Nov 30, 2004. During this period L.A.W. wrote to various governmental ministers advising of them that George W. Bush stood accused of the most grave crimes known to law, including torture, and therefore should be denied (…)

  • The CIA-leak case: From a notepad to jail and back
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DON VAN NATTA JR, ADAM LIPTAK and CLIFFORD J. LEVY
    In a notebook belonging to Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times, amid notations about Iraq and nuclear weapons, appear two small words: "Valerie Flame." ADVERTISEMENT
    Miller should have written Valerie Plame. That name is at the core of a federal grand jury investigation that has reached deep into the White House. At issue is whether Bush administration officials leaked the identity of Plame, an undercover CIA operative, (…)

  • America has 2,000 young offenders serving life terms in jail
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
    Two leading human rights organisations have accused the United States of in effect throwing away the lives of more than 2,000 juvenile offenders sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole - a punishment out of step with international law but one increasingly popular with tough-on-crime US legislators.
    According to a report being published today by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the United States is the only country to (…)

  • Abuse, Forced Labor Rampant in New Orleans Justice System
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When Robert Davis emerged from the temporary detention center in New Orleans, his eye was swollen nearly shut, his face was bruised, and he had a couple of stitches under his left eye. He told The NewStandard that police had beaten him and then charged him with public intoxication and battery, even though he had not had a drink in 25 years and had merely asked a police officer to leave him alone.
    The 64-year-old retired elementary school teacher sat sadly in a chair Sunday morning outside (…)

  • When Torture becomes Policy
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Whitney
    "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government." Declaration of Independence, July4, 1776
    President Bush has made it clear that he will veto the $435 billion Pentagon appropriations bill because it restricts his ability to abuse prisoners in the war on terror. The bill, which forbids the "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment" of prisoners in US custody, was (…)