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Record numbers in US prisons The number of people in US prisons and jails rose again last year to 2,267,787 people, continuing a trend of increasing incarceration rates that has gone on unabated for more than two decades. According to a report released in October by the US Department of Justice, by the end of 2004 there were 1.4 million prisoners in federal and state facilities and 700,000 in local jails....
Posted: Sat, Nov 5, 2005 9:23am PST
The CIA’s global gulag The Washington Post revealed November 2 that the US Central Intelligence Agency operates a global network of secret prisons that holds individuals captured or kidnapped in America’s so-called “war on terrorism.” This illegal prison system, first set up following the September 11 attacks, has at various points included facilities in eight countries, among them Thailand, Afghanistan and several countries in Eastern Europe, as well as a center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 10:31pm PST
Attorney Tells Why Guantanamo Detainee Attempted Suicide in Front of Him More than twenty detainees in the Guantanamo Bay prison have attempted suicide and UN investigators continue to press for visits at the prison camp despite refusals from the Bush administration. We speak with lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, who recently witnessed a client’s suicide attempt during a visit, about the ongoing desperation of prisoners and the military’s reporting of the events....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 10:29pm PST
Utica, NY Man Shot and Killed by Police 
In Utica, NY, resident Walter Washington was shot and killed by a Utica police officer this summer. The details surrounding the events of that night are shady at best and bizarre at worst. Many questions are still unanswered and Mr. Washington’s friends and family live in a state of uncertainty as they attempt to find the truth of the events surrounding Washington’s death....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 2:02pm PST
Paris hit by anti-police riots Two boys died on the evening of October 27 while fleeing from the police on a suburban council estate that houses poor and immigrant workers. The deaths of the boys, in Clichy-sous-Bois in Paris’ northern suburbs, sparked violent confrontations between mainly immigrant youth and 400 to 500 riot police dispatched by Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 6:55am PST
10/26 Communities United Against Police Brutality E-Newsletter Communities United Against Police Brutality
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Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 12:57am PST
US judge orders release of Guantánamo hunger strikers’ medical records A federal judge ruled on October 26 that the Bush administration and the US military must provide information to defense attorneys about the conditions of detainees in Guantánamo Bay. The lawyers are representing detainees from Qatar, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan who have been participating in a hunger strike for more than three months to protest their incarceration and treatment at the US detention camp....
Posted: Sun, Oct 30, 2005 9:19pm PST
U.S. Made "Inappropriate" Allegations of Terrorism Before Sentencing Iraqi-American Doctor Iraqi-American doctor Rafil Dhafir is sentenced to 22 years in prison for violating the Iraqi sanctions through his charity “Help the Needy.” We speak with Barrie Gewanter of the NY Civil Liberties Union about the case, who has publicly questioned the fairness of the trial....
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 8:52am PDT
Cheney is the Man Who Unleashed Torture and Promoted it Within Military and CIA The Bush administration is coming under increased criticism for attempting to justify the torture of detainees. Vice President Dick Cheney and CIA Director Porter Goss reportedly urged Senator John McCain to exempt the CIA from a proposed ban on torture. We speak with lawyer Scott Horton about the VP and torture....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 7:58am PDT
Bush administration seeks legal sanction for torture On Tuesday, the Washington Post published a front-page article revealing that Vice President Dick Cheney and CIA Director Porter Goss met with Arizona Senator John McCain last week to urge the modification of a Senate provision banning the US government from carrying out “cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment” of prisoners in its custody....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 7:54am PDT
Janis Karpinski, the Former Head of Abu Ghraib, Admits She Broke the Geneva Conventions # Karpinski, the highest-ranking officer demoted in connection with the torture scandal, speaks out about what happened at the Abu Ghraib prison. She discusses: How the military hid "ghost detainees" from the International Red Cross in violation of international law;
# Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller calling for the Gitmoization of Abu Ghraib and for prisoners to be "treated like dogs";
# Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's secret memos on interrogation policies that hung on t...
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 6:27pm PDT
PBS film documents Rumsfeld’s role in authorizing torture The Public Broadcasting Service’s October 18 edition of “Frontline” aired a documentary on US torture of detainees held in American prison camps in Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq. Entitled “The Torture Question,” the report makes clear that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the brutal methods of interrogation used against US prisoners. In a climate where the mass media functions primarily as a White House and Pentagon propaganda tool, the PBS investigation is a ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 6:39am PDT
Order broadens surveillance of Internet users In a serious attack on democratic rights, the US government has greatly increased the scope of legislation introduced in 1994, regarding the electronic monitoring of telecommunications providers....
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 6:35am PDT
URGENT SOLIDARITY NEEDED: SUPPORT THOSE ARRESTED PROTESTING NEO-NAZIS IN TOLEDO, OH! This is an emergency request for bail money for people arrested at the
anti-Nazi demonstration in Toledo, OH. Please Western Union money to
Chris Fox in Kent, OH. Call him at 330-389-0891 once the money is
wired....
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2005 12:02pm PDT
Guantanamo Detainees on Hunger Strike Tortured and Violently Force-Fed by Guards, Medical We speak with attorney Julia Tarver who is representing detainees at Guanatanamo Bay. She says her clients - who are participating in a hunger strike to protest their mistreatment indefinite detention - told her guards and medical staff forcibly shoved large feeding tubes up their noses and down into their stomachs, and used the same tubes from one patient to another....
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 10:44pm PDT
Assembly Points for the Tenth Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Assembly Points for the Tenth Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police
Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
(list in formation)...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 9:31pm PDT
National List of Endorsers for the 10th Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police... Endorsements for the 10th Annual National Day of Protest to
Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
October 22, 2005...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 9:26pm PDT
Twenty-Seven Detainee Homicides in U.S. Custody Lax Policies and Inadequate Investigations Create
Culture of Impunity, Human Rights First Research Shows...
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 11:04pm PDT
Communities United Against Police Brutality Newsletter In a previous edition of this newsletter, we reported that the MN
legislature passed a new law during the last session that criminalizes
so-called "false" reporting of police brutality incidents......
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 7:51pm PDT
Guantánamo Bay hunger strike enters third month The latest in a series of increasingly determined hunger strikes by Guantánamo prisoners entered its third month last week. The protest began on August 8 and has involved over 150 men, or more than a third of all detainees in the US navy prison....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 11:11pm PDT
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