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| | Leonard Peltier Case "What Constitutes a Political Prisoner?" by Lawrence Sampson |
 | | The most famous of all American Indian political prisoners, Leonard is in his 28th year of incarceration. | | | American Indian prisoner who was approached and offered a deal to lose 30 years of his sentence if he killed Leonard Peltier. | | | When he advocated for spiritual rights behind bars, Manuel became a "problem prisoner" and received several years in solitary confinement. |
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http://www.freepeltier.org/020904_political_prisoner.htm
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| | MIT ESG Seminar on Political Prisoners (SP274): Class Resources |
| | Three activists were sentenced to long prison terms in North Carolina after their 1972 conviction for burning the Lazy B Riding Stable, which was a target of protest because it refused its services to blacks. | | | In 1972, they were convicted and sentenced to a combined total of 282 years in prison - one of the stiffest sentences ever imposed in North Carolina for arson in which on one died. | | | At most, he was a victim of racial prejudice and his own poverty - not a dissident jailed for his political views. |
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http://web.mit.edu/esg-conscience/www/resr/mmr-young.shtml
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| | Iran Focus-Iran: Political prisoner facing imminent execution - Human Rights - News |
| | Paris, Apr. 21 — Iran’s Supreme Court upheld an execution sentence for a 38-year-old political prisoner from the western Iranian town of Boukan. | | | Earlier this month Iran’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence against another long-time political prisoner in Iran. | | | Last year, he was handed down an execution sentence by an Islamic court in Urumiya. |
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| | Sumoud :: Comprehensive Report on Status of Palestinian Political Prisoners (June 2004) |
| | Prisoners who have been sentenced or who have received administrative detention orders are generally held in a prison. | | | On 24 June 2004, Addameer's lawyer, during a visit to a prisoner in Shatta, had to interrupt his conversation with his client many times to ask the guard to move away. | | | Background: On the same day Su’ad was sentenced, the Jerusalem District Court sentenced 37 year old Nahum Korman, an illegal Israeli settler, to 6 months of community service for the brutal killing of 11 year old Palestinian child, Hilmi Shawasheh, in 1996. |
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http://sumoud.tao.ca/?q=node/view/76
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| | POLITICAL PRISONER - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | Wilson is contesting an appeal against the politically biased decision but meantime remains deprived of his liberty. | | | As he was led from the dock, Qadus shouted the judgement was "racist" and a "total misjustice." He was called back by Judge William Wood QC, who told the 45-year-old his behaviour was "lamentable" and unless he apologised he would be found guilty of contempt of court. | | | Disgraced Stourbridge councillor Abdul Qadus was today starting a six-month jail sentence, his political career in tatters. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=47033
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| | Longest imprisoned Female Political Prisoner |
| | On 12 June 1991 her father was arrested for participating in demonstrations and sentenced to eight years in Drapchi Prison where he remains today. | | | Despite her youth, she was sentenced to three years imprisonment "for incitement to subversive and separatist activities". | | | Ngawang was reportedly sentenced on 31 July 1996 and in the months preceding the trial was fed only one plain dumpling or bun per day and was manifesting signs of severe malnourishment. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Bolonkin1/p62.htm
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| | Support our Prisoners! |
| | Both of the authors are eco-anarchist prisoners serving time for their activities - Thaxton received a 7 year sentence on charges of assault and riot on the June 18th “”Day of International Action Against the Global Economy” and Luers received a staggering 22 year sentence for setting fire to three SUVs. | | | Mumia Abu-Jamal is on death row, convicted of killing a cop after a rigged trial. | | | This was a project that could not have comen about without the wonderful work by the people in the No Death Penalty for Zolo Committee in Chicago. |
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http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/powpp.html
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| | Nuh Washington, Political Prisoner |
| | For that I have been sentenced to life imprisonment and subjected to the tightest security, not only in the states of California and New York, but in the country as well. | | | The State has conceded that I have committed no act but that I taught political education classes. | | | As a member of the Black Panther Party, I worked to raise the political consciousness of Black people and teach them self- defense. |
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http://prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/nuh-washington
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| | Ernst Zundel: Political Prisoner |
| | Zundel — who did this country a favour by wiping off the books our disgraceful False News laws — has never once been convicted of a criminal offence in this country, never once found to have violated the hate crime laws that rest snugly around the throat of free expression in this country. | | | “He is being held in solitary confinement solely for the non-violent expression of his political views.” | | | He’s been investigated for years by the police. |
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http://www.ihr.org/news/030519Zundel_Pol_Prisoner.shtml
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| | A Former Political Prisoner's Continuing Fight for Justice and Truth |
| | Billington was sentenced to 77 years by the Commonwealth of Virginia, on trumped-up charges of "securities violations." He was interviewed by New Federalist editor Nancy Spannaus for "The LaRouche Connection" cable television program, on Dec. 12. | | | A Former Political Prisoner's Continuing Fight for Justice and Truth | | | They no longer have the trust in the Justice Department and FBI that they once did, prior to Waco, and Ruby Ridge, and all that. |
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| | Political prisoner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Institute of Justice and Democracy in Haiti Support for Haitian political prisoners | | | Political Prisoners in the United States - The Jericho Movement | | | He was imprisoned for his participating in the Berlin conference "Iran after the elections" after the February 2000 Iranian Election) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_prisoner
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| | Democracy Now! Kurdish Political Prisoner Leyla Zana Released After a Decade in Jail |
| | Conversation with exonerated death row prisoner Harold Wilson. | | | While Zana was released her sentence has only been appealed, not dropped. | | | A Turkish court ordered the release of Zana, along with three other Kurdish legislators after a state prosecutor called for their sentences to be quashed. |
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/10/1425202
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| | Martha Stewart: Political Prisoner - Mises Institute |
| | In the end, we are likely to have a well-known person owning a felony record and being sentenced to prison (or, at best, receiving a suspended sentence or probation) and a once-prosperous company in tatters. | | | Oh, and we will see some federal prosecutors being feted as though they had just solved the Case of the Century. | | | It is politics, not the pursuit of justice, which is driving this case. |
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http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1246
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| | Anarchist Black Cross Federation |
| | This list has been compiled and is maintained by the Jacksonville branch of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation. | | | Ask all questions through the mail before your visit. | | | Prisoners who went to prison as a result of non-politically motivated "crime" and became political while in prison are not Political Prisoners or Prisoners of War. |
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http://www.abcf.net/abcf.asp?page=prisoners
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| | Story of a Mon Political Prisoner |
| | The judge was a civilian, and the court was full with many people, all police. | | | I think the Mon leaders negotiated it with SLORC. | | | The political prisoners did the same work as the criminal prisoners. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/freeburma/humanrights/khrg/archive/khrg96/khrg9602.html
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| | VDARE.com: 08/25/03 - Pauline Hanson—Political Prisoner, by R. J. Stove |
| | Even if he had been found unambiguously guilty of electoral malfeasance, he would have several shots remaining in his locker. | | | When Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard defied the augurers by winning a third term in November 2001, he did so partly because the 9/11 political fallout would have favored any incumbent. | | | Even the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s psephologist Antony Green, of mildly leftist yuppie persuasion, admitted the eccentricity of the case against her. |
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http://www.vdare.com/misc/stove_hanson_prisoner.htm
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| | Political Prisoner to Exiled, Page 4, Assata Shakur Speaks |
| | I make a special, urgent appeal to you to fight to save the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the only political prisoner who is currently on death row. | | | The U.S. is becoming more and more of a police state and that fact compels us to fight against political repression. | | | As the concentration camps in the U.S. turn into death camps, I urge you to fight to abolish the death penalty. |
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| | Political Prisoners |
| | Then, as a consequence of their work on the streets, and/or involvement in military actions, they were targeted, captured or framed and tried in criminal courts and sentenced to prison. | | | Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War are men and women who, as a consequence of their political work and/or organizational affiliations were given criminal charges, arrested or captured, tried in criminal courts and sent to prison. | | | Jeff Luers is a political prisoner and has been granted this status because of his excessive sentence, politically motivated actions and his resistance on the inside. |
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| | FOX23 News - Coverage & Convenience - Syria's longest-serving political prisoner looks forward to new life, job |
| | Imad Shiha was one of 90 political prisoners released Monday as part of an amnesty by President Bashar Assad to mark the fourth anniversary of his July 2000 accession to power after the death of his father, President Hafez Assad. | | | Most of the prisoners freed were affiliated with Islamic fundamentalist groups and had completed their sentences. | | | Shiha said prison life was hard, and he had moved at least four times. |
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| | KhodorkovskyTrial.com - Press Center for Mikhail Khodorkovsky. |
| | The politically-motivated nature of the case has been confirmed by U.K. and U.S. court decisions, U.S. and E.U. congressional and parliamentary resolutions, and by a number of Russian and Western human rights organizations. | | | Recognize Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev as political prisoners | | | I think that any person becomes a political prisoner if the law is applied to him selectively, and this is an absolutely clear case to me. This is a glaringly lawless action. |
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| | Haiti: Political Prisoner Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste Released - November 29, 2004 |
| | Jean-Juste is a prominent activist for peace, justice and the rights of immigrants in Haiti and the U.S. He was arrested without a warrant by masked Haitian police on Wednesday, October 13, 2004, while he was feeding the hungry children of his parish. | | | Jean-Juste, or any of the more than 700 political prisoners remain in Haiti's jails (according to the Catholic Church's Justice and Peace Commission), almost all with no more in their files than Fr. | | | The interim government systematically denies political prisoners access to the courts, and ignores liberation orders for those who manage to appear before judges- former Delegate Jacques Mathelier (July 12) and grassroots activist Jean-Marie Samedi (November 22), both remain in jail despite valid release orders. |
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| | ARE YOU A POLITICAL PRISONER? by Wayne Carlson - Sierra Times.com |
| | Could it be that the majority of these disaffected voters recognize that the two-party political machine is rigged and that it actively works to prevent any challenge to their political hegemony? | | | People don't vote when there is nothing for which to vote. | | | Many of America's dumbed-down, well-indoctrinated people will take immediate umbrage at the mere suggestion that it is possible for the United States to have political prisoners. |
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| | Dennis Brutus |
| | After leaving South Africa in 1966 with a Rhodesian passport, Brutus made his home in England. | | | Political campaigns led to his being banned from all political and social activity. | | | Currently living in the United States, he is now a professor of African Studies and African Literature, and is Chair of the Department of Black Community Education Research and Development at the University of Pittsburgh. |
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| | Worldandnation: Cuba releases political prisoner |
| | His father, Blas Roca, was a legendary Communist Party leader who helped write the country's revolutionary constitution. | | | But Roca's steadfast opposition to the island's government, as well as his political pedigree, set him apart. | | | Two months short of completing a five-year sentence on charges of inciting sedition, Roca defiantly told reporters his battle for political reform in Cuba was not over. |
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| | ISN Security Watch - Tbilisi keeps pressure on 'political prisoner' |
| | ISN SECURITY WATCH (25/10/04) - The Supreme Court in Tbilisi has remanded Sulkhan Molashvili, the former Chairman of the Chamber of Control, Georgiaâs main state audit agency, for the third time in six months. | | | Molashvili was remanded by the Georgian Supreme Court for a second time on 22 July, despite a reported bail payment of US$265â000, and was again sentenced to another three months of pre-trial detention. | | | Georgian law decrees that a prisoner can only be held for a maximum of nine months in pre-trial detention. |
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| | China's game with political prisoners (Human Rights Watch, 6-12-2003) |
| | Over the years the event most likely to trigger a prisoner release has been a high-level diplomatic visit between the United States and China. | | | The United States should greet Wen Jiabao with a demand that China release all prisoners sentenced for what are in reality political crimes. | | | In February 1999, during the run-up to the United Nations human rights meeting, Beijing released Gao Yu, a young journalist. |
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| | Interview with Ahmed Kathrada, cover page |
| | Now his responsibilities include serving as a member of Parliament, Parliamentary Councilor to the Office of the President, and preserving the history of Robben Island. | | | He became a core member of the ANC, was convicted in the famed Rivonia trial, and served 26 years in prison with President Mandela. | | | South African Ahmed Kathrada served 26 years as a political prisoner of apartheid with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu. |
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http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Kathrada
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| | Haiti Activists around the world demand freedom for political prisoner Sò Anne - July 5, 2005 |
| | Haiti's interim prime minister has declared there are no political prisoners in Haiti. | | | Whereas Auguste was arrested without a proper warrant in violation of the Haitian constitution and has been held in a Haitian jail without formal charges since May 10, 2004; | | | If former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune and former interior minister J. Privert are not freed there are political prisoners in Haiti. |
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| | Letter to Colin Powell urging U.S action in favor of Tunisian political prisoner (Human Rights Watch Press release, ) |
| | Letter to Colin Powell urging U.S action in favor of Tunisian political prisoner | | | Human Rights Watch is writing to urge a strong intervention by the United States in favor of the release of Tunisian political prisoner Hamma Hammami, as well as all other persons imprisoned in Tunisia for their political opinions and nonviolent political activities. | | | Hammami is serving a three-year, two-month sentence for activities related to the political party of which he is spokesman, the Tunisian Communist Workers Party (PCOT). |
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| | KhodorkovskyTrial.com - Press Center for Mikhail Khodorkovsky. |
| | In the same way, no state interests can justify the abuse of justice to fight political opponents. | | | We appeal to the international human rights community to recognize the obvious fact: Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a political prisoner. | | | This appeal will be sent to all international human rights organizations, the first of these being Amnesty International. |
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| | Leonard Peltier Native American Political Prisoner |
| | Build and Support Jericho '98 March on the White House! | | | He, his family, and his supporters participated in the struggle for prisoners' rights and were in the forefront during the hunger strike, work stoppage, marches, and rallies of the early 1980s. | | | In 1958, during a period when the United States was attempting to "terminate" reservations (i.e. |
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| | Blogcritics.org: Tommy Chong, political prisoner |
| | My cranky old Republican father, for example, spent thirty years running a convenience store. | | | The judge and prosecutors here are the threat to our liberty, not Tommy Chong. | | | If selling drug paraphernalia constitutes criminal activity, there are at least hundreds of thousands of people who should be in prison. |
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| | Congressman Hansen's Injuries Inflicted by Federal Marshals. |
| | after being shackled in torture and serving four years in prison for | | | Why this torture, jail without trial and prison on false charges? | | | Congressman Hansen was forced to wear shoes two sizes too small, causing foot injuries and loss of toenails! |
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http://www.uhuh.com/reports/hansen/hanhurts.htm
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| | The Amazing Wonderdog: Skippy is a political prisoner |
| | Skippy is not a member of any political party. | | | Beyond that, Emery's activities were tolerated by Canadian law enforcement, which somewhat weakens the extradition case, since a law that is not enforced doesn't look like a law at all. | | | Rather than not enforcing the law, the Crown has bided its time. |
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| | Political Prisoner - Objectivism Online Forum |
| | This is not legitimate, but these are not "political prisoners". | | | In terms of method, political prisoners are usually ordered into jail by the political leadership, rather than the judicial system. | | | I started with a rough definition of: "prisoners who are in jail not because they violated anyone's rights, but for 'political' reasons". |
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| | Free Political Prisoner Jeff 'Free' Luers! |
| | Jeff is a political prisoner and continues to write and agitate for his release while imprisoned at Oregon State Penetentiary. | | | His appeal was filed in January 2002 and oral arguments before the Oregon Court of Appeals were heard on November 30, 2005 | | | Despite the fact that this action hurt no one, caused only $40,000 in damages and the cars were later resold, Jeff was sent to prison for a sentence considerably longer than those convicted of murder, kidnapping and rape in Oregon state. |
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| | POLITICAL PRISONER--BILL DUNNE by Ronald Del Raine |
| | Of course, it's established case law that it's illegal to retaliate against prisoners for the exercise of their constitutional rights: therefQre, it follows that this practice is not practiced. | | | Furthermore, our government officially proclaims that there are no political prisoners incarcerated in the United States: therefore, it follows that there are none. | | | As an indication of the United States inconsistent treatment of "terrorists," one need only look to the April 1990 State Department publication which identifies both the PIRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army) and the African National Congress (the "ANC") as terrorist organizations. |
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| | Anarchist Black Cross Network: Resistance is Global |
| | they were jailed for acts they made clear before and/or during their trials were expressly political actions carried out against the state, its policies, capitalism and/or oppression. | | | they were jailed for acts that mainline movement groups may not regard as "political action," but which should be regarded as notable. | | | Other groups offer support to all prisoners engaged in class war and do not adhere to standard definitions, maintaining that law and the "movement" have failed to adequately address political changes and repression in the last 10-15 years. |
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| | Key Political Prisoner Is Released in Burma (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Naing was among at least 19 political prisoners released this week, including at least three senior members of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, according to activists in the United States and Thailand. | | | The United Nations, United States and European Union consider her release essential toward reform. | | | Most are not political prisoners, the activists said. |
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: Britain's Real Political Prisoner by Val MacQueen |
| | It was stated, by way of explanation, that the Lord Chief Justice thought that most British people wouldn’t want someone who burgled their home sent to prison. | | | Tony Martin is a political prisoner being used to further a political agenda. | | | At his first parole hearing, 59-year-old Tony Martin, by all accounts a model prisoner, despite the injustice done to him, was refused his freedom because the judge ruled that he posed a danger to burglars. |
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| | ABC News: Former Political Prisoner Sues Castro |
| | The U.S. State Department has repeatedly condemned Cuba for repressing dissent and criticized the conditions under which political prisoners are held. | | | Officials with the Cuban Government Interests Section in Washington, which represents Castro's government in the United States, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. | | | Jerez, a vocal opponent of Castro's government, said he was tortured during a three-month incarceration at a Havana psychiatric hospital called Mazorra where other political dissidents were kept. |
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| | Al-Quds University - Abu-Jihad Center for Political Prisoner's Affaris |
| | Al-Quds University - Abu-Jihad Center for Political Prisoner's Affaris | | | Khalil Al-Wazir, one of the founders of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fateh), whose specific charge was the political structure of Fateh in the Occupied Territories, and who maintained close contacts with the prisoners from his headquarters abroad. | | | This unique Center was established in 1999 to commemorate and document the development of the Palestinian prisoner movement. |
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| | ISN Security Watch - China frees high-profile political prisoner |
| | She was sentenced to eight years in prison for what the prosecution described as illegally providing state intelligence to foreign sources. | | | ISN SECURITY WATCH (18/03/05) - China has released a prominent Uighur leader and political prisoner, Rebiya Kadeer, one day before US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Beijing. | | | Last year, her prison term was reduced by one year for good behavior. |
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| | BARISTA: our very own political prisoner Archives |
| | At least some of the Mallorcan stopovers were used to take on fuel after arriving from, or before departing for, the United States. | | | The Spanish government says it has been assured by the Bush administration that none of the CIA planes stopping on Spanish soil had prisoners on board or otherwise infringed Spanish law. |
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| | Leonard Peltier Page--STORIES for American Indian Youth |
| | Can't Jail the Spirit--A prisoners' Rights page, with focus on political prisoners. | | | This is a list with addresses where you can write to them. | | | The politics of repression (of AIM)--the reasons why this occurred--are also covered. |
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