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• The Hauntings of Alcatraz

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 158
  Located in San Francisco Bay with a great view of the Golden Gate Bridge and downtown San Francisco, you’ll find perhaps the most famous prison in the world. Alcatraz, nicknamed “The Rock”, was originally known as “La Isla de los Alcatraces” or “The Island of the Pelicans” because of its appearance as a ...
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• Vietnam Charges Lawyer With Capital Crime

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 151
  The charge of subversion against a U.S.- educated human rights lawyer intensifies a crackdown on dissent in advance of a Communist Party Congress.
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• NYT > World: Trial of Prominent Chinese Dissident Begins

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . A verdict in the trial of Liu Xiaobo, one of China’s most vocal reform advocates, could come as soon as Friday.
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• Success Of Your Internet Business

  
  Business to Business b2b | Marketing | eCommerce | Telemarketing — Authority: 155
  Internet research paid surveys golden chance for people that go to make money, sitting in the comfort of your home, and when they feel free, and it does not hum drum, how to enter data, or filling out the form, instead of challenging and interesting. The surveys are conducted, or market research firm or corporate ...
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• Trial of Prominent Chinese Dissident Begins

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 151
  A verdict in the trial of Liu Xiaobo, one of China’s most vocal reform advocates, could come as soon as Friday.
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• Who Are The Four Afghans Released From Guantánamo?

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 574
  Over the weekend, 12 prisoners were released from Guantánamo, as the Justice Department announced in a press release on December 20. I have previously reported the stories of the two Somalis who were released — emphasizing how nothing about their cases demonstrated that they were “the worst of the worst” ...
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• Links for Dec.21.09 to Dec.23.09

  
  The Arabist — Authority: 495
  *  Middle East Online | The End of Brotherly Love? | Tarek Kahlaoui on the Egyptian MB. *  The Israel Lobby and the Prospects for Middle East Peace « P U L S E | Lectures by Stephen Walt. *  Israeli Organ Trafficking and Theft: From Moldova to Palestine | Investigation by Washigton Report. *  Doctor admits ...
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• Shalit talks drowned in hypocrisy

  
  Uncensored News from Israel — Authority: 144
  Speaking to families of terror victims whose murderers will be released for a worthless corporal, Netanyahu posed the choice as the one between “redeeming captives and protecting citizens.” Of course, he couldn’t care less about the captive, but simply bows down to media’s howling. Polls indicate about forty ...
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• Plan to Move Guantánamo Detainees Faces a New Delay

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 168
  Rebuffed by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy an Illinois prison, the Obama administration is unlikely to close the Guantánamo Bay prison until 2011 at the earliest.
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• Plan to Move Guantánamo Detainees Faces a New Delay

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 151
  Rebuffed by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy an Illinois prison, the Obama administration is unlikely to close the Guantánamo Bay prison until 2011 at the earliest.
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• UK: Foreign prisoners handed £500 cash cards to go home

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  More than 2,000 foreign prisoners have been handed the money in the last two years in a desperate bid to clear Britains overcrowded jails. Some prisoners are given the money even though they are also freed from their jail terms up to nine months early. They can spend it on anything they wish once they have returned ...
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• Claims troops mistreated prisoners unfounded

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  All allegations of mistreatment of Afghan prisoners by Canadian troops investigated so far have been unfounded, the Canadian Forces Military Police said Monday night.
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• Omar Barghouti: BDS as response to repression of Palestinian nonviolence

  
  US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation — Authority: 469
  Many of you have already heard of the most recent arrest by Israel of a leader of Palestinian nonviolent resistance to occupation and apartheid. Our allies at Stop the Wall have information and action steps that you can take to demand the release of Jamal Juma , who joins Mohammad Othman and Abdallah Abu Rahmeh in ...
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• Israel’s deadly mistakes

  
  Israpundit — Authority: 584
  By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist IN 1983, ISRAELI authorities arrested Ahmed Yassin, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza. He was convicted of unlawfully stockpiling weapons and establishing paramilitary jihadist organizations, and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Just two years later, however, he was set free ...
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• Three prisoners flee from police van

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) Three prisoners Tuesday fled from a prison van after it was hit by a truck in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, police said here.“They were travelling in the van when it was hit,” a police official told IANS.The three under-trials — Ganapati Singh, Balbir Ram and Monirul — ...
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• Everyone awaiting prisoner exchange while Israeli PM orders negotiations to continue

  
  UN-Truth — Authority: 124
  Yes, free Gilad Shalit — for God’s sake, for his sake, for Gaza’s sake… At the same time, free Palestinian prisoners, too. The fate of some 1,000 to 1,400 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails is also now under discussion, according to various media reports. There are currently between 7,000 and 11,000 ...
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• Relatives seek release of Pak prisoners languishing in Indian jails

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Islamabad, Dec. 22 (ANI): Relatives of Pakistani prisoners, who have completed their terms in Indian jails, have urged Islamabad to ask New Delhi to release them.Addressing a press conference here, activist Ilyas Qasmi and prisoners’ relatives said there were at least 32 prisoners awaiting repatriation to Pakistan ...
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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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• Israeli government agonizes over prisoner release

  
  Uncensored News from Israel — Authority: 144
  Trapped between common sense and media pressure to get back a worthless corporal from a well-connected leftist family, Israel’s security cabinet failed to reach a decision during three meetings today. We wonder how would they behave in a real military situation when a simple questions of 1 to 950 exchange caused ...
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• Arizona Prisons Plan to Transfer Illegal Immigrants to Federal Custody

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Desperate to save money, Arizona will transfer illegal immigrants who have been convicted of nonviolent crimes to federal custody for the last three months of their sentences.
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