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Woman Politician Wins Even By Losing
World  (tags: politician, woman, win, lose, empower women, Pakistan, election, vow, fight, injustice, strength, Jafarabad, Sindh, candidate, poor, support )

Naoko
- 794 days ago - ipsnews.net
KARACHI, Pakistan, Mar.23, 2010 (IPS) - Earnestness is still on her sunburnt face as she faces throngs of people just days after her defeat. Indeed, even as threats continue to come her way, Mai Jori has not given up on her dreams to help empower the
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The Heart of Darkness: Congo.
World  (tags: Congo, raped, mutilation, torture, destruction, injustice, bestiality, "Women´s Rights" )

Marta
- 803 days ago - wluml.org
For women, the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is the heart of darkness: a territory where they are sexually attacked, mutilated and killed in ways so vicious that the United Nations calls it unprecedented. But for the survivors, the horror
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Letting Go of Control Orders
World  (tags: control orders, secret evidence, injustice )

Eleanor
- 987 days ago - guardian.co.uk
The control order system was, essentially, cobbled together by the government after the law lords ruled in December 2004 that holding men without charge or trial in Belmarsh prison - the government's previous response to holding terror suspects who.......
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Megrahi Was Framed
World  (tags: injustice )

Eleanor
- 991 days ago - newstatesman.com
The trial of the "Lockerbie bomber" was worse than a travesty of justice. Evidence that never came to court proves his innocence
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"Would You Be Able to Cope?": Letters By the Children of Control Order Detainee Mahmoud Abu Rid
World  (tags: inhumanity, injustice, secret courts, control orders, children-bereft )

Eleanor
- 1057 days ago - andyworthington.co.uk
...and below I reproduce four letters written by five of Mahmoud Abu Rideh's six children, which should convince all but those with hearts made of stone that the government's anti-terror policies have been nothing but a grave and profoundly disturbing,,,
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Seven Years of Madness: The Harrowing Tale of Mahmoud Abu Rideh and Britain's Anti-Terror Laws
World  (tags: injustice, mental-torture, control orders, detention-without-trial, secret-courts, secret-evidence )

Eleanor
- 1057 days ago - andyworthington.co.uk
Today, Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a Palestinian-born British resident with a British wife and six British children, has a hearing at the High Court in London to consider his request for internationally valid travel documents which would allow him to leave the cou
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Control Order Detainee Mahmoud Abu Rideh to Be Allowed to Leave the UK
World  (tags: control orders, injustice, fair trials, habeas corpus )

Eleanor
- 1058 days ago - andyworthington.co.uk
Mahmoud Abu Rideh secured an important personal victory today, but everyone who believes that no one should be imprisoned or otherwise deprived of their liberty on the basis of secret evidence - and, essentially, on the whim of government ministers who...
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Law Lords Condemn UK's Use of Secret Evidence And Control Orders
World  (tags: secret evidence, injustice, punishment without charge )

Eleanor
- 1074 days ago - andyworthington.co.uk
Four years late, the Law Lords finally put the British government's anti-terror policies under the spotlight on Wednesday by delivering a resounding repudiation of the government's use of secret evidence to impose control orders on alleged terror suspects
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Urgent Action for Mahmoud Abu Rideh
World  (tags: human rights abuse, torture, control order, injustice )

Eleanor
- 1086 days ago - care2.com
Mahmoud Abu Rideh has been held on a control order for more than four years. Before that he was imprisoned for 3 ½ years under an act of parliament now held to be unlawful.
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De Menezes Officer Cleared of Deception
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', corruption, crime, death, ethics, freedoms, HumanRights, humanrights, society, violence, police state, cover up, independent my a**e!, gutless, injustice, protest, now )

Pete
- 1094 days ago - independent.co.uk
A senior police surveillance officer who admitted tampering with his evidence during the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes was cleared today by an official investigation. The Special Branch Officer deleted text from his computer note
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Cowardly Inaction on Omar Khadr Case
World  (tags: injustice, guantanamo, canada )

Eleanor
- 1139 days ago - cageprisoners.com
It is a shame that six years of Omar Khadr's life have already been wasted as a result of a cowardly government and the only Western nation yet that hasn't extradited one of its own from Guantanamo Bay. It is even more shameful because there is a.....
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Take Action: Demand Release of Detained Colombian Activists, Victims of Baseless Prosecutions
World  (tags: world, columbia, prosecutions, prison, suppression, government, crime, corruption, politics, injustice, mine workers, activists, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', violence )

Tom
- 1149 days ago - action.humanrightsfirst.org
Colombian prosecutors accuse human rights defenders of membership in a guerrilla organization and rely heavily on false testimony and inadmissible intelligence reports. Baseless prosecutions are attempts to silence and discredit human rights activists.
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Torture Taints All Our Lives
World  (tags: collusion, torture, injustice, secret evidence, torture evidence )

Eleanor
- 1152 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Last Friday it was announced that, under instructions from the attorney general to the director of public prosecutions, the police are to investigate claims by released Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed that MI5 agents had knowledge of.........
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UN: The 50 Poorest Countries on Planet Earth
World  (tags: Poverty & Hunger, Injustice )

Ben
- 1154 days ago - infoplease.com
Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti...
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Britain's Insane Secret Terror Evidence
World  (tags: injustice, imprisonment without trial, secret evidence, torture evidence )

Eleanor
- 1166 days ago - andyworthington.co.uk
A month ago, when Britain's Law Lords ruled that three men who have each spent between six and eight years imprisoned without charge or trial, or held without charge or trial under strict bail conditions amounting to house arrest, could be deported to..
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