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• Ghosts of Christmas Present

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 481
  This cheery picture (right) may closely resemble your living room this Christmas morning, but in fact, its the living room of AnaPaulina Gomez, a third-year law student at Penn State Dickinson School of Law, pictured exactly a week ago. The many toys are donations from a toy drive that Gomez organized for children ...
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• UN concern at tainted Nepal general’s promotion

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Kathmandu, Dec 25 (IANS) The UN has expressed concern at the Nepal government’s decision to promote an army officer whose brigade ran a secret torture camp and who is alleged to be responsible for the disappearance of 49 prisoners, saying he and others should not be promoted until a transparent and unbiased enquiry ...
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• ‘Guantanamo in Illinois’ Not a Done Deal

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  So reports the Chicago Tribune’s Katherine Skiba and Peter Nichols : the $626 billion defense spending bill that just passed Congress doesn’t include money to convert the correctional center at Thomson, Illinois to a federal prison. The White House announced a week ago that it wanted to resettle Guantanamo Bay ...
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• Nepal promotes army officer with tarnished human rights record

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Sudeshna SarkarKathmandu, Dec 24 (IANS) Ignoring calls by the UN and human rights organisations at home and abroad, Nepal’s communist-led government Thursday decided to promote a senior army officer under whose command soldiers ran a torture camp during the Maoist insurgency and executed dozens of people secretly ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Gitmo may have to stay open until 2011

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 652
  By GottaLaff ( via ) Even when Gitmo is finally closed down, theres still the problem of indefinite detention at the Illinois supermax prison. President Barack Obama s commitment to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , by next month may be delayed until 2011 because it will ...
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• No Christmas for Detainees on Christmas Island

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 478
  In 1643, Captain William Mynors of the Royal Mary , a British East Indiaman, named the island when he sailed past it on Christmas Day.  The island remained uninhabited until around the 1890s.   Control of the island was transfered to Australia in 1957.  In recent years the island has become a destination for ...
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• Nation reporter unmasks extraordinary rendition-like subfields run by ICE

  
  Restore Fairness Blog — Authority: 117
  A couple months ago, Jacqueline Stevens, a reporter for the Nation, went on a road trip with Mark Lyttle, a U.S. citizen, born in North Carolina, who had been kidnapped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), stripped of his rightful identity documents, rendered stateless, and deported to Mexico, to re-locate ...
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• Records Show Rothstein’s Law Firm Gave More than $6 Million to Non-profits Last Year

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 482
  According to financial records made public late Tuesday, the law firm of accused financial swindler Scott Rothstein gave a whopping $6.06 million to non-profit groups and other foundations last year. Records show that the bankrupt Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler firm made these contributions to at least 113 organizations. ...
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• Local activists targeted in occupied Palestinian territories

  
  Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog — Authority: 133
  Abdallah Abu Rahme is affable and articulate.  Last July, when I called to set up a time to talk before one of the weekly protests in his village, Bi’lin in the occupied West Bank, he made jokes and explained exactly the best way to get there from Jerusalem through all the checkpoints and roadblocks . ...
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• Freezin’ for a Reason 2010: DC Guantanamo Vigil and Fast, January 11-22

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 534
  It’s easy to march on Washington, DC in March or September when the weather is sunny and warm. An activist event in cold, cold January only happens when people are really riled up about something. The upcoming vigil and fast in Washington DC from January 11 (the 8-year anniversary of the opening of the ...
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• Report: Colorado home to secret immigration detention centers

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 614
  An upcoming report from The Nation purports to expose 186 secret Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers, four of which are located here in Colorado. According to the report, ICE has been confining people in “unlisted and unmarked subfield offices” around the country. A partial list of ...
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• Danger: Popular struggle

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 554
  Amira Hass | Haaretz 23 December 2009 There is an internal document that has not been leaked, or perhaps has not even been written, but all the forces are acting according to its inspiration: the Shin Bet, Israel Defense Forces, Border Police, police, and civil and military judges. They have found the true enemy ...
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• Court OKs Pretextual Use of Immigration Detention

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 739
  In a ruling that slid in quietly under the news radar, a federal court of appeals ruled late last Friday that the government can lawfully use immigration detention as an excuse to conduct criminal investigations into non-citizens if the government likely has the right to deport that person. As long as his ...
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• Youth jail dangerous, guard says

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 158
  Youth jail dangerous, guard says A flawed admissions process at a Brampton superjail is endangering troubled teens and staff, says a senior jail guard at the Roy McMurtry Youth Centre.
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• Lithuania hosted secret CIA prisons

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 134
  The CIA used at least two secret detention centres in Lithuania after the 11 September 2001 terror attacks on the US, a Lithuanian inquiry has found. BBC NEWS Dec. 22, 2009 The report by a Lithuanian parliamentary committee says that in 2005 and 2006 CIA chartered planes were allowed to land in Lithuania. It ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Human Rights Round Up

  
  Human Rights — Authority: 116
  With the holidays coming up and getting the 2009 Year in Review together, we have been a bit light on posting. However here are some links to a few of the human rights stories from this past week. Detained in Iran, Russia, and China Last week NPR reported on three human rights stories from Iran, Russia, and ...
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• D.C.s star chefs prepare fresh meals for youths in juvenile detention

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 948
  When the boys and girls residing at the juvenile detention center on Mount Olivet Road in Northeast Washington were asked to pick the menu for a special holiday meal, they opted for no frills: Fried chicken. Macaroni and cheese. Potatoes. And cake. Lots of cake.
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• China: Liu Xiaobo’s Trial a Travesty of Justice

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 657
  (New York) – By mounting a pre-determined political trial of China’s most prominent dissident, the Chinese government is violating the rights of Liu Xiaobo and showing contempt for its universal human rights commitments, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
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