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newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 14, 2008
In the wake of the recent changes to our policy on refugee detention, I find myself embarrassed and ashamed. What has happened to this great and decent country? Am I the only one who thinks this way? I am not talking …
Also tagged: human rights, featured, john howard, kevin rudd, civil society, detention centres, mandatory detention, ezequiel trumper
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Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in US Handstruthout.org » Truthout - All Articles - Aug 14, 2008 He was 17 when he came to New York from Hong Kong in 1992 with his parents and younger sister, eyeing the skyline like any newcomer. Fifteen years later, Hiu Lui Ng was a New Yorker: a computer engineer with a job in … Also tagged: immigration, illness, labor, health care, prison, immigrant, detainee, undocumented, habeus corpus |
telegraph.co.uk » Telegraph Politics - Aug 4, 2008
Parliament should not be allowed to decide whether a terror suspect is held without charge for up to 42 days by police, peers say today.
Also tagged: terrorism, terror, constitution, committee, suspects, house of lords, peers, lords, lord woolf, ill equipped, institutionally, lord goodlad, 42 daysmps
truthout.org » Truthout - All Articles - Jul 31, 2008
Reuters urged the US military to immediately release an Iraqi cameraman working for the news organisation or to publicly produce evidence to justify his detention. Ali al-Mashhadani, who also works freelance for the …
Also tagged: journalism, reuters, us military, anbar, iraqi citizen
truthout.org » Truthout - All Articles - Jul 30, 2008
From the July/August issue of Mother Jones Magazine read more
Also tagged: ice, texas, prisons, immigrants, detainees, contractors, undocumented, corrections corporation of america, private prisons
truthout.org » Truthout - All Articles - Jul 23, 2008
Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan's intelligence agencies and police have disappeared hundreds of Pakistanis, including children as young as 9, as part of the U.S.-led war on terrorism, Amnesty International charged …
Also tagged: terrorism, pakistan, amnesty international, torture, suspects, disappear, intelligence agencies
telegraph.co.uk » Telegraph UK News - Jul 23, 2008
Police detain woman under Terrorism Act on suspicion of trafficking her disabled son.
Also tagged: mother, trafficking, child trafficking, terrorism act, kent police, disabled son
wonkette.com » Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip - Jul 17, 2008
Here’s a Fox News clip from today of John McCain’s communications director Jill Hazelbaker, a.k.a. “the poor man’s Dana Perino.” She said that Barack Obama is not going to the Middle East to learn anything about the …
Also tagged: iraq, john mccain, barack obama, 1, muslims, gaffes, rallies, dana perino, jill hazelbaker, you re grounded
telegraph.co.uk » Telegraph UK News - Jul 8, 2008
A teacher has been suspended amid claims she punished two children who refused to worship Allah during a Religious Education lesson.
Also tagged: teacher, cheshire, allah, suspended, alsager high school
telegraph.co.uk » Telegraph Politics - Jul 4, 2008
Government plans to extend pre-charge detention for terror suspects to 42 days are "unnecessary, disproportionate and counter-productive" and should be rejected in the House of Lords next week, Human Rights Watch said …
Also tagged: government, watch, rights, human, terror, 42 days