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Fears Grow for Iran Stoning Case Lawyer and Son
As reports surfaced this week of the imminent execution of Iran’s Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, we are also grew increasingly concerned with the fate of her lawyer and son. We fear…
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Arizona Ignores Trial Judge, Kills Prisoner
"The death penalty in this case is not appropriate and never has been." That’s what former judge Cheryl Hendrix told Arizona’s Board of Executive Clemency in support of Jeffrey Landrigan’s effort…
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The power of World Press Freedom Day
Today, World Press Freedom Day provides an opportunity for people around the world to celebrate the fundamental human right to freedom of expression. Every day, journalists around the world face…
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Don't Quota Me
On February 22, James Chaparro's sixth day on the job as the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) behemoth detention and removal operation, he issued a memo directing all…
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Hey India, Help Free Aung San Suu Kyi
India should use it's democratic cred and influence as a rising global power to help Aung San Suu Kyi and other Prisoners of Conscience (POC) in Myanmar. In 1993, the…
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The Story of Maajid Nawaz
Maajid Nawaz is a British citizen of Pakistani descent who became involved in his youth with the radical Islamic Liberation Party (Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami), undertaking missions for the party in…
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Dollars and cents of new health care legislation
While protesters have been occupying House Speaker Pelosi's office, demanding a health care system that serves "Patients not Profit", the House of Representatives is preparing to vote on the market-based…
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SADC Tribunal Struggles for Legitimacy
UPDATE, September 24, 2009 "SADC Executive Secretary Tomaz Salamao told VOA that Harare’s move to repudiate the tribunal has been referred to the ministers of justice of the regional bloc's…
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Roxana Saberi Freed!
[caption id="attachment_2043" align="alignleft" width="145" caption="Journalist Roxana Saberi filming footage in Tehran. (c) BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images"][/caption] We're happy to report that American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi was freed from prison in Iran!…
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Seven Years Later: Our Power, Our Responsibility
This week we mark the 7th anniversary of the day the U.S. government first began warehousing “enemy combatants,” terrorism suspects and hapless wrong-place-wrong-time detainees at Guantánamo. Since then, hundreds of…