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• On November 12

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 435
  On this day in ... ... 1969 (40 years ago today) , a news cable published in more than 30 U.S. newspapers wrote of an Army lieutenant named William L. Calley: The Army says he deliberately murdered at least 109 Vietnamese civilians during a search-and-destroy mission in March 1968, in a Viet Cong stronghold ...
  7 hours ago

• China: Secret “Black Jails” Hide Severe Rights Abuses

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 680
  (New York) - Since 2003, large numbers of Chinese citizens have been held incommunicado for days or months in secret, unlawful detention facilities known as "black jails" by state agents who violate detainees rights with impunity, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. read more
  14 hours ago

• Canadian border guards nab Syrian with $800K in gold

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 507
  A Syrian man is awaiting a detention hearing in Vancouver after he was caught crossing the U.S.-Canada border with nearly $1 million in gold and several items that could link him to a listed terrorist organization.
  17 hours ago

• CAP: Postpone Gitmo Close, Send Leftovers to Bagram

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 783
  The influential Center for American Progress, which has close ties to the Obama administration , is now calling on President Obama to push back the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center to July . That’s despite the president’s day-two directive to close the notorious prison by January. Closure has ...
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• John Yoo asks that torture lawsuit be dismissed

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 570
  University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall Law School Professor John Yoo – widely recognized as an architect of Bush Administration policies on torture and detainee rights – has filed a brief asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to toss a lawsuit filed by a former prisoner.American citizen Jose Padilla ...
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• Did fight with Dadwal’s son lead to Manu Sharma’s return to jail?

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) Did a chance fight with the Delhi police commissioner’s son in a bar result in Jessica Lal murder convict Manu Sharma returning to Tihar Jail Tuesday?According to highly-placed police sources, Sharma, who was out on two months’ parole since Sep 22, bumped into Police Commissioner Y.S. ...
  2 days ago

• DETENTION CENTRE

  
  The Heart of the Turks and Caicos — Authority: 141
  It was once the most feared building in Providenciales for illegal residents….now the South Dock Detention Centre is a mere shell of itself, now only operational when a Haitian sloop is captured or a massive illegal capture exercise…News 4 has Exclusive footage of the detention center.
  2 days ago

• New private prison in San Diego County in 2010?

  
  Last Blog On Earth — Authority: 427
  In its latest U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing , private-prison operator Corrections Corporation of America reports that it could begin construction on a new prison in Otay Mesa “as early as 2010.” Here’s why: CCA currently operates the San Diego Correctional Facility, an 1,154-bed detention ...
  2 days ago

• Denying Crucial Care

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  My friend Martha over at This is Everything posted a great piece on her tumblr from an article in The LA Times that was written back in June of 2008 .  It may be an old article but with all the health care news as of late it seems like a good time to remind people of the below fact: “Unlike federal and ...
  3 days ago

• Supreme Court decision could affect imprisoned teens

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Supreme Court decision could affect imprisoned teens Eric Hancock was 16 and with a cash-strapped older cousin when he robbed a Mount Oliver convenience store, killing the clerk before he left with $400 and a pack of Newport cigarettes in the summer of 2007.
  3 days ago

• Australia seeks help from Sri Lanka on flow of asylum seekers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Sydney, Nov 8 (DPA) Releasing Tamils from camps and reintegrating them into Sri Lankan society would help staunch the flow of asylum seekers crossing the Indian Ocean, Australia Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Sunday.Smith, due in Colombo Monday, said more quickly emptying the camps where Tamils were living after ...
  4 days ago

• 16-Year Old Got Life Without Parole for Killing Her Abusive Pimp -- Should Teens Be Condemned to Die in Jail?

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  16-Year Old Got Life Without Parole for Killing Her Abusive Pimp -- Should Teens Be Condemned to Die in Jail? Sara Kruzan was 11 years old, a middle school student from Riverside, Calif., when she met a man -- he called himself GG -- who was almost three times her age. GG took her under his wing; he would buy her ...
  4 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  4 days ago

• New Newsletter! – Movement #1

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 154
  The No Borders UK Newsletter has been rotated around local No Borders  groups for the last few years. Last month’s  network gathering in London, signalled that it is now our turn to produce the publication. We  intend to create a more regular and broad based periodical, drawing in others that work to end the [...]
  4 days ago

• Filipino Prison Dancing Inmates: Queen Tribute

  
  Blogoncherry — Authority: 517
  On Oct 31st 2009, the Filipino prison dancing inmates performed a tribute to Queen. Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center also known by its initials CPDRC is a maximum security prison in Cebu, in the Cebu Province, the Philippines. Byron Garcia, the official security advisor to the Cebu government who ...
  4 days ago

• Activist escapes abductors after six months in captivity

  
  This is Zimbabwe — Authority: 472
  MDC activist, Peter Munyanyi, 29, has finally managed to escape from his abductors after spending over six months in captivity at an unknown place. For over six months, Munyanyi, who was among hundreds of MDC supporters who went missing following last year’s post-election violence, said he did not know where he ...
  5 days ago

• Gross: Spit Ball Toys Grow 200x Original Size

  
  Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome — Authority: 752
  Spit Balls are a $ 5 toy from Edmund Scientific that grow to 200x their original size and sound like something that I dont want to touch. Still, for the sake of science , Id put them in my mouth . The wonder of polymers makes these slimy spit balls possible. Easy to make and fun to use, spit balls grow to 200x ...
  6 days ago

• Absolute Corruption Is the Rule in America

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  America’s former middle class is joining the ranks of the poor, and the foreclosed are filling the nation’s homeless shelters. Short of bold government action of Rooseveltian proportions, there will... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  6 days ago

• Inmates Save Deputy

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 171
  Tampa, Fla. inmates rescued a detention deputy when one inmate charged him, put him in choke hold and began strangling him
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• Premier, etc unwise to comment

  
  Civil Liberties Australia - promoting people's rights, and civil liberties — Authority: 113
  In South Australia, with an election close, both Labor and Liberal politicians play the law and order card constantly in the media. But in doing so, the Chair of the SA Council for Civil Liberties warns, they are being both unfair and unwise, particularly when their gratuitous comments apply to Aboriginal ...
  6 days ago

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