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Please join us for a powerful and inspirational weekend that will be filled with stories and insight about how to further our struggle to abolish the death penalty....

Update on Jeff Free Luers Jeff is still in the hole; please continue to write to him!...

Jordan detains and tortures political and security suspects. Its military security agency – the General Intelligence Department – uses torture methods such as the "falaqa" – beating the soles of the feet with a stick, and the "shabeh" (phantom) - suspension from handcuffed wrists for several hours and then beatings....

In February 2002, the British-born Moazzam Begg was seized by the CIA in Islamabad. No reasons were given for his arrest. He was hooded, shackled and cuffed and flown to the U.S. detention facility at Kandahar, then to Bagram airbase where he was held for approximately a year before being transferred to Guantanamo. The U.S. government labeled him an "enemy combatant." He was never charged with a crime. In all, Moazzam spent three years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement. He was sub...

Justice Delayed is Murder, and a War Crime...

Eleven people are scheduled to be executed in the month of August. There will be at least one execution per week, and three on the third and fifth weeks. Among those scheduled for execution are a South Dakota person who would be the first person put to death in that state since 1947 and an Ohio man who is arguably severely mentally ill and possibly suffers from mental retardation....

At 9:15 PM July 22 shouts interrupted on-the-air Radio Universidad - a shout for help, while in the background I could hear the doors being pounded as if someone was trying to smash them, and a women screaming. A male voice managed to shout, “We are being attacked!” There was a sound like glass breaking. Then the station went silent....

How can you help? Get involved and take part in the Cabhair monthly sustainer! Cabhair, is an Irish charitable organisation that provides financial assistance to the dependants and family members of Irish Republican political prisoners. I would urge everyone who reads this to help them in this most noble of work by making a contribution. Cumann Na Saoirse Náisiúnta (National Irish Freedom Committee) sends all collected donations straight to Cabhair through its Monthly Sustainer program. The p...

...Treatment of Guantanamo Detainees ~ Interview with Wells Dixon, Center for Constitutional Rights attorney, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...

PITTSBURGH — As the mostly African American and Latino congregation was preparing for weekly Friday prayers at Light of the Age mosque here on June 30, a dozen FBI agents raided the building and lined up worshippers outside at gunpoint. Agents ransacked the building and asked individuals detailed personal questions, demonstrating intimate knowledge of their private lives....