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  • Miller Agrees to Testify in CIA Leak Probe
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thursday September 29, 2005 8:38pm Washington (AP) - After nearly three months in jail, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released Thursday after agreeing to testify in the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of a covert CIA officer, two people familiar with the case said.Miller left the federal detention center in Alexandria (website - news) , Va., after reaching an agreement with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. Legal sources said she would appear before a (…)

  • Key Player in Torture Scandal Nominated to No. 2 Post at Justice Department
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Key Player in Torture Scandal Nominated to No. 2 Post at Justice Department; ACLU Expresses Deep Concern With Embattled Appointee
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Media@dcaclu.org
    WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today expressed deep concern that Timothy Flanigan, who served as deputy to then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, is being considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee to be deputy attorney general. The committee is scheduled to vote on his confirmation (…)

  • Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos
    By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago
    Saying the United States "does not surrender to blackmail," a judge ruled Thursday that pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America’s image.
    U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ordered the release of certain pictures in a 50-page decision that said terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan have proven they (…)

  • The verdict on Lynndie England, A major abuse and a minor sentence !
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The verdict on Lynndie England, A major abuse and a minor sentence !
    After more than a year of investigations and discussions by American Courts, the verdict by a military court has come to sentence Lynndie England to 3 years of imprisonment. The photos which have been disclosed about Lynndie have shown torture, sexual assault and humiliation of Iraqi detainee in Abu-Graib Prison. The pictures only show part of the suffering of those innocent detainee and only God knows what they have (…)

  • The buck stops with Lynndie
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    LYNNDIE ENGLAND is convicted. Donald Rumsfeld cackles. England, the 22-year-old private, was found guilty as prosecutors convinced an all-male Army jury that she bore full responsibility for ’’her own sick humor" in the infamous photographs of her at Abu Ghraib holding a naked prisoner on a leash and smiling as she pointed at a prisoner’s genitals.
    Defense lawyers depicted England as a depressed reservist, a mere file clerk who was compliant to authority and easy to (…)

  • New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Officers Deserted a Jail Building, Leaving Inmates Locked in Cells
    As Hurricane Katrina began pounding New Orleans, the sheriff’s department abandoned hundreds of inmates imprisoned in the city’s jail, Human Rights Watch said today.
    Inmates in Templeman III, one of several buildings in the Orleans Parish Prison compound, reported that as of Monday, August 29, there were no correctional officers in the building, which held more than 600 inmates. These inmates, including some who were (…)

  • Prisoners in New Orleans city jail were ’abandoned’
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Andrew Gumbel
    A leading US human rights group accused prison officials in New Orleans yesterday of abandoning hundreds of men in the city jail in the run-up to Hurricane Katrina, leaving them locked up without food, water, electricity, fresh air or functioning toilets for four days as the floodwaters rose to their chests, necks and higher.
    Human Rights Watch described the prisoners’ ordeal at the Templeman III facility in New Orleans as a "nightmare" and said, based on interviews with (…)

  • A Sausage - Looted or Not - Lands Elderly Church Leader in Prison
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Sausage - Looted or Not - Lands Elderly Church Leader in Prison
    By Kevin Mcgill and John Solomon Associated Press Writers Published: Sep 15, 2005
    KENNER, La. (AP) - Merlene Maten undoubtedly stands out in the prison where she has been held since Hurricane Katrina. The 73-year-old church deaconess, never before in trouble with the law, now sleeps among hardened criminals. Her bail is a stiff $50,000.
    Her offense?
    Police say the grandmother from New Orleans took $63.50 in goods from (…)

  • New Orleans : prisoners fell on barbed wire in bid to find water
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    New Orleans prison inmates desperate to get water fell out of cell windows onto razor wire where they hung for hours waiting to be rescued, according to a sheriff’s deputy.
    Luis Reyes, who guarded a prison during Hurricane Katrina and the days after, said that some detainees drowned in their cells as flood waters rose.
    In an interview with AFP, Mr Reyes said many prisoners broke out of their cells because there were just not enough guards to control the Community Correctional Centre (…)

  • 15 Muslims, Cleared of Terrorism Charges, Remain at Guantanamo With Nowhere to Go
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chinese Detainees Are Men Without a Country
    By Robin Wright
    In late 2003, the Pentagon quietly decided that 15 Chinese Muslims detained at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be released. Five were people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, some of them picked up by Pakistani bounty hunters for U.S. payoffs. The other 10 were deemed low-risk detainees whose enemy was China’s communist government — not the United States, according to senior U.S. officials.
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