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• in Politics
  A Victory for Hamas; A Step Back for Peace Talks?
  Palestine and Israel are exchanging prisoners, however peace talks don't seem to come anytime soon.
  by eduardazo / on Oct 18, 2011
• in Politics
  Gitmo Should Close Up Shop
  U.S. Fostering Terrorist Cell on Enemy Soil
  by eklemens / on Jul 18, 2011
• in TV
  National Geographic Explorer Examines the Human Cost of "Solitary Confinement"
  As much as you would like to “get away from it all,” could you survive years of 24/7 solitary confinement?
  by missbobetier / on Oct 10, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “prisoners”

 

• Death March: Cannes Review

  
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  DatzHott.com - "Where Everything Cool is Hott!" Adolfo Alix Jr.’s film based on the forced move of Filipino and American prisoners of war by the victorious Japanese in 1942 premieres in the Un Certain Regard section of the fest. read more Read more here: EW The post Death March: Cannes Review appeared ...
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• Speed Kills

  
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  Florida Governor Rick Scott (Photo Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images). Is Governor Rick Scott of Florida trying to speed up his state’s death penalty? He’s signing more death warrants (three executions are currently scheduled over the next month), and he’s considering a bill passed by the legislature that ...
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• SECRECY: the Cloak of Criminality? Who can do what about it?

  
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  When John Hemming MP joined us at our Westminster meeting  in January 2011, to explore a Public Inquiry into White Collar Crimes , I knew that ‘ secret prisoners ‘ were his ‘pet subject’: the use of the Court of ‘Protection ‘ to steal the assets of mainly elderly people, by declaring them ‘not ...
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• Burma Reforms still need the US’s weight

  
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  The White House welcomed ex-general Thein Sein on Monday as the first president of Burma/Myanmar in roughly 47 years after the late Gen. Ne Win’s visit in 1966.   Thein Sein has been attempting to improve a significant diplomatic recovery for his nation after decades of isolation from the US. Self-styled ...
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• Freedom Rooms: Micro Apartments Designed by Prisoners

  
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  Who has more experience living in cramped spaces than prisoners? Modeled after a jail cell, the ironically named Freedom Room is a 96-square-foot micro apartment offering “a different idea” for temporary and social housing, hotels and hostels. Inmates at Italy’s high-security prison in Spoleto served as ...
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• 100 days of hunger: Anonymous stands up for Gitmo prisoners

  
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  Follow RT’s day-by-day timeline of the Gitmo hunger strike.Kicking off Friday, a series of “twitterstorms, email bombs and fax bombs” were aimed at “raising awareness in social media” of the situation at Guantanamo, violations of human rights of “prisoners, many of whom have been cleared for release years ...
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• Palestinian prisoners’ issue discussed at the European Parliament

  
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  [ PIC 19/05/2013 - 07:47 PM ] BRUSSELS, (PIC)– UFree Network to defend the rights of Palestinian prisoners raised the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on the sidelines of a meeting held at the European Parliament in Brussels on Nakba anniversary, in coordination with Council for European Palestinian ...
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• Human rights issues niggle as US firms eye Myanmar

  
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  T-shirts bearing images of President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It is a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became the first sitting United States president to set foot in Myanmar, ...
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• Prisoner Barghouti refuses to drink water after being isolated

  
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  [ PIC 19/05/2013 - 12:26 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Wa’ed Society for Detainees and Ex-detainees said that the Israeli authorities transferred on Friday evening captive leader Abdullah Barghouti, sentenced to 67 life terms, to solitary confinement. Wa’ed said in a statement on Saturday that prisoner Barghouti has been on ...
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• 79-Year-Old Kurdish Mother: “I don’t want to die in this prison!”

  
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  The Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan said on the occasion of the international human rights day on 10 December 2012 the following: Protecting and developing human rights, democracy and principles of the state of law have been some of our primary objectives since the day we came into power. Our efforts in those ...
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• The Saddest Reality Stars

  
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  Unlike the ‘Real Housewives,’ prisoners aren’t really exercising free will when they sign up to exploited on TV. Excerpt from: The Saddest Reality Stars
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• The Texas Tribune: With Consensus and Money, State Takes on Mental Health Care

  
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  As Republicans and Democrats in Texas House and Senate hash out the details of the state’s 2014-15 budget, one issue they are not arguing about is support for mental health.        
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• Maze Prison’s Future Stirs Up Ghosts of Its Past

  
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  With a peace center planned for Maze prison, home of an I.R.A. hunger strike, some in Northern Ireland are revisiting the complex story of the Troubles.        
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• Anwar, Malaysia’s Opposition Leader, Takes to the Streets

  
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  Anwar Ibrahim has returned to his roots as a political street fighter, drawing large crowds across the country to protest what he calls mass vote rigging.        
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• Marches in Jordan in solidarity with prisoners

  
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  [ PIC 18/05/2013 - 07:37 PM ] AMMAN, (PIC)– Thousands of Jordanians took part in several marches, sit-ins and events commemorating the Nakba anniversary and in solidarity with the prisoners in the occupation jails. In Amman, Jordanian citizens participated in a sit-in after Friday prayers in front of the Kaloti ...
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• Prisoners Onstage

  
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  At a Prison Volterra in Tuscany, Italy, inmates become actors.        
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• Exposures: Prisoners Onstage

  
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  Inmates in Italy find redemption in acting.        
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• UPDATED: Cousins of teenager murdered at checkpoint arrested

  
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  18th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | ‘Anabta, Occupied Palestine UPDATED: Two brothers of the arrested Deiyaa’ Nassar, cousins of the murdered Amer Nassar, were arrested last week Monday, May 13 past 2 am at night. Deiyaa’ Nassar, 19, and Fadi Abu-’Asr continue to be held in ...
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• Jorge Videla, Argentina’s Ex-Military Leader, Dies in Jail

  
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  Jorge Rafael Videla , Argentina’s former president, died on May 17, 2013, at the age of 87 in a jail cell where he was imprisoned. Videla ruled between 1976 and 1981, during Argentina’s military dictatorship, a period marked by death that left thousands of people missing [es]. In 1983 the former dictator was ...
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• Burma leader frees prisoners ahead of US visit

  
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  YANGON, Burma (AP) — Burma’s president has pardoned at least 20 political prisoners just ahead of a historic visit to the United States that will highlight the two sides’ improved relations brought about by the former pariah nation’s democratic reforms. State media reported Saturday that 23 prisoners were ...
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