Prisoner Hunger Strike Enters Crisis Stage
Region: United States
(Originally published at the Daily Censored for Project Censored). Since July 1, 2011, some 6,600 mostly California state prisoners have participated in a hunger strike. The strike began at Pelican Bay and has spread to... more
Views: 4315PDP demands release of all political prisoners
Region: India
Jammu, January 28 (Scoop News) – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today demanded release of political prisoners and hundreds of innocent youth, who have been languishing in different jails, to cre... more
Views: 1413Mufti calls for immediate and unconditional release of political prisoners
Region: India
Srinagar April 8 (Scoop News) - Peoples Democratic Party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed stressing immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners. In a statement issued here today he said has ... more
Views: 1998White House to Move Guantanamo Prisoners to Thomson, Illinois
Region: Illinois
The White House will announce Tuesday plans to move some Guantanamo Bay prisoners to a facility in the rural town of Thomson, Illinois, news organizations including the Associated Press and Talking Points Memo confirmed. ... more
Views: 1733Indian Supreme Court directs state Govts to file Latest Status Report on POK prisoners under J&K Gov
Region: India
Ocotober 06 (Vijay Kumar) -Supreme Court of India on Friday directed the Union of India and Govt. of J&K to file Status Report on the detenus detained in various jails of India under orders of Go... more
Views: 3074Why Many Guantanamo Detainees Ordered Released Are Still Stuck There
Region: United States
This story was co-published with Slate [1]. Read our summary of the judge's remarkable ruling [2], which we've also posted in full [3]. When President Obama took office and ordered [4] the detention center at Guantanamo... more
Views: 1189Syria Riot Jail Causes Concern
Region: Syrian Arab RepublicA year after riots, questions remain around Sednaya jail and the fate of prisoners. By an IWPR-trained reporter (SB No. 66, 07-July-09) Although his jail term was supposed to end in April, Nizar Rastanawi is still inc... more
Views: 1676US tortured the detainees in the secret prisons of other countries
Region: United States
US President Barack Obama recently met with his NATO allies in Strasbourg, France and discussed the new strategy about Afghanistan but as a matter of fact, the US “war on terror” has some dark aspects. ... more
Views: 1706'My Fellow Prisoners': John McCain Transcript
Region: Pennsylvania
'My fellow prisoners"-- this is how John McCain referred to Americans during a Pennsylvania campaign speech today, in a gaffe that is already widely circulated online in a CNN video excerpt. In the video below, McCa... more
Views: 2010Israel’s Prisoner Exchange makes no Sense at all
Region: United States
Israel’s Knesset recently voted in favor of a prisoner exchange. However, the specifics of the exchange are where the debates rage. Israel, in it&rsq... more
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