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• World Briefing | Africa: Zimbabwe: Trial of Opposition Leader Suspended

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  The judge in the trial of Roy Bennett suspended proceedings until next year.
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• IMEMC: This Week in Palestine, November 27, 2009

  
  PalCast — Authority: 128
  Israel announced this week it would halt construction works in illegal settlements for a period of 10 months, while military attacks on Gaza and the West Bank left four dead and six injured. These stories and more in this week’s update. This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for ...
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• *From The Partisan Defense Committee- 24th Annual Holiday Appeal- Honor Class War Prisoner Lynne Stewart

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 148
  Click on title to link to the Partisan Defense Committee Web site. The following is passed on from the PDC concerning the 24th Annual Holiday Appeal Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Free All Class-War Prisoners! Build PDC Holiday Appeal “The path to freedom leads through a prison. The door swings in and out and ...
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• Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now" Stopped at Canadian Border after Appearing at Seatac "Borders" Books

  
  Silenced Majority Portal — Authority: 444
  Amy Goodman felt ‘violated’ by Canadian border officials | Raw Story A supreme irony. Armed interrogators wanted to make sure she didnt say anything about the 2010 Olympics. They demanded notes, looked through her friends computer. (She is an American...
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• Kyaw Zaw Lwin has been handcuffed during the court sessions, which he said was against Burma’s law.

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
  Handcuffing of Burmese-American in court protested by Mungpi Friday, 27 November 2009 22:18 New Delhi (Mizzima) – The lawyer of detained (alias) Nyi Nyi Aung, said he had objected to handcuffing the accused during the trial and had submitted an objection letter, but it was rejected by the court. Kyi Win, one of ...
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• Terrorists feasting on fresh chicken, beef, eggs, and milk in Pak prisons!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Lahore, Nov.27 (ANI): Its not all that bad to be a prisoner in Pakistan, as one can enjoy sumptuous meals consisting chicken and farm fresh milk while in custody.There may be overcrowding in Pakistani jails, but there is no lack of quality food for the prisoners there.Officials admitted that there are numerous ...
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• World Briefing | Africa: Tunisia: Journalist Gets 6 Months in Jail

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  A journalist known for his critical stance toward Tunisia’s government, Taoufik Ben Brik, was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail on an assault charge.
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• Op-Ed Columnist: Iranians in Exile

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Roger Cohen
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• Wheres Red Cross in Afghanistan?

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  Like a dog with a bone, Parliament and predictable types among the public agitate the question of prisoners captured by Canadian troops in Afghanistan being turned over to Afghan authorities who are accused of torturing them.
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• A Rare Chinese Look at Secret Detentions

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 153
  Bunk beds are seen in a room in a black jail in Beijing in August 2009. Activists said more than a dozen illegal detention centers known as black jails exist in Beijing.
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• Israel’s appalling denial of entry to Palestine for African American activists Dhoruba Bin Wahad and Naji Mujahid

  
  Palestine Think Tank — Authority: 477
  USPCN stands with African American activists against Israeli racism Israel’s appalling denial of entry to Palestine for African American activists Dhoruba Bin Wahad and  Naji Mujahid comes as no surprise.   The state of Israel, inherently racist and exclusionary, has always found common cause with other racist ...
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• HMP Kirkhams Christmas raffle prize: Get out of jail free

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Telegraph View: First prize in the Christmas raffle at HMP Kirkham makes the prison look more like a case of Ready, Steady, Abscond than Porridge.
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• Free speech trial of two Western Saharan students in Morocco postponed

  
  asvdh — Authority: 136
  Baba Ali Toumi and Abdellah Dihani The Court of Appeal in Casablanca has postponed the verdict on two Saharawi students, Baba Ali Toumi and Abdellah Dihani to next week. The trial resumed today Thursday, 26 November 2009, in the absence of the complainant and witnesses, still the president of the court refused to ...
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• *From The Partisan Defense Committee- 24th Annual Holiday Appeal- Honor Class War Prisoner Lynne Stewart

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 148
  Click on title to link to the Partisan Defense Committee Web site. The following is passed on from the PDC concerning the 24th Annual Holiday Appeal Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Free All Class-War Prisoners! Build PDC Holiday Appeal “The path to freedom leads through a prison. The door swings in and out and ...
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• U.K. cops arrest people ‘just for the DNA’

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 124
  More than three-quarters of young black men aged between 18 and 35 are on the system, the report said. Set up in 1995, the database contains the DNA profiles of five million citizens, eight percent of the population, making it the world’s biggest in proportion to population size. “Parliament has never formally ...
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• Pollards protest Shalit deal

  
  Uncensored News from Israel — Authority: 441
  In a public letter, captured Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard and his wife protest the immense efforts the government spends for Shalit – but not for Pollard. American Jews, they do not understand that Shalit comes from a well-connected leftist family, while Pollard is just another foreign Jew for the government, ...
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• Netanyahu, Barak: Shalit is an exception

  
  Uncensored News from Israel — Authority: 441
  Netanyahu and Barak are hard pressed to reconcile their willingness to exchange Shalit for 1,100 terrorists with their numerous statements which condemned negotiations with kidnappers – the negotiations, that is, conducted by other cabinets. According to Barak, Israeli acceptance of exchanges must not be rescinded ...
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• Colvin may be mistaken on torture

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  One wonders if Richard Colvin, the Canadian diplomat whose warnings about torture of Taliban prisoners by Afghans has created a firestorm of recriminations, had any idea of what he was unleashing when he compiled his report? As an honest man, he might have been too prone to accept complaints by supposed victims. ...
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• Jammu and Kashmir to get more prisons

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Jammu, Nov 26 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir government plans to set up more prisons over the next four years to decongest the existing ones.The new jails would be built in all the new district headquarters. Since July 2006, eight new districts have come up in the state, taking their total number from 14 to [...]
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• Women play a bigger role in Mexicos drug war

  
  EndrTimes — Authority: 445
  MEXICO UNDER SIEGE Women play a bigger role in Mexicos drug war Addiction, the economy and the lure of living well have sucked many into the narcotics underworld. The trend threatens the foundations of Mexican society. Guillermina Castro Lopez, in the Culiacan prison in Mexicos Sinaloa state, got 15 years ...
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