Tag Archives: Prison
The Imprisonable Class And The Crisis Of American Criminal Justice
May 21, 2013
When Americans think of police states they often envision an authoritarian country like North Korea, the old Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. The very phrase conjures up images of men in dark uniforms breaking down doors in the middle...
Peace Activists Face Terrorism Charges For Trying To Turn Reactor Into Plowshares
By Katie Rucke
On June 28, 2012, three longtime peace activists — Sister Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57 and Michael Walli, 63 — cut through a chain-link fence surrounding a nuclear weapons production facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., which had signs saying “No Trespassing.”...
Somali-American Faces Life In Prison For Donating To Al-Shabaab
By Martin Michaels
A Minnesota humanitarian worker named Amina Farah Ali faces life in prison for charges of providing material support for Al-Shabaab, an armed group in Somalia considered a terrorist organization by a bevy of countries, including the U.S., Australia and Canada. Her sentencing...
Human Rights Defender Disappears In Bahrain: Crackdown On Whistleblowers Continues
By Martin Michaels
Where in the world is Nabeel Rajab? It’s the question Bahrainis and human rights advocates are asking after the sudden disappearance of the key opposition leader this week. Rajab, the president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, has been in prison since August 2012...
Obama Continues To Hack Away At Press Freedoms
By Mint Press News Desk
The New York Times (NYT) editorial board is calling out the Obama administration for “secretly combing through the phone records of reporters and editors at the Associated Press.” It’s a bold allegation that has drawn the ire of civil liberties groups and concerned...
How To Catch A Dictator
By Mike McDonald
Elena Caba waited more than 30 years for justice after she was raped and left for dead in a river alongside her neighbors during Guatemala’s bloody civil war.
She was nine when soldiers stormed her Indigenous Ixil Maya village near Chajul in Guatemala’s western highlands...
Gitmo Prisoner: Obama Has ‘Abandoned’ Detainees
By The Associated Press
A Guantanamo Bay detainee says he feels abandoned by President Barack Obama and the world after more than 10 years at the U.S. prison.
“I believe that President Obama must be unaware of the unbelievably inhumane conditions at the Guantanamo Bay prison, for otherwise...
Inside The DPRK: How A Caste System Structures Everyday Realities For North Koreans
By Frederick Reese
There is a strange phenomenon that lingers over every North Korean. For the past five decades, an arbitrary determination decides where they will live, what hospitals they will go to if they are sick, if they can go to college, if they can marry and even if they will receive...
Anonymous Takes Aim At Guantanamo, Vows To Close Prison Through Online Attacks
By Martin Michaels
The global hacker collective, Anonymous, has chosen the U.S. military’s Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba as its latest target, vowing to wage digital warfare against the facility considered by many groups, including Amnesty International and the World Medical Association...
Rodman to Kim: ‘Do Me A Solid’ And Free American
By The Associated Press
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to ask for the release of a Korean-American man sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in the North.
“I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea or as...
