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VANUNU
MORDECHAI J.C : RECENT NEWS
Posted: 07 Oct 2008 11:50 PM CDT
Here
is the appeal decision,
Today we went to the district court,to hear the 3 judges sentence for
my appeal against 6 months prison for speaking to foreign Media.
The sentence by the 3 judges was 3 months prison, instead of 6 months.
They again found me guilty for speaking to foreign media.
We can try to appeal this sentence in the supreme court.
So I can be free until we will hear from the supreme court.
-vmjc ![]() |
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Ruling
on Chinese hits Bush jail policy
Posted: 07 Oct 2008 10:16 PM CDT
In
asking other countries to take the Uighurs, the Bush administration
argues that US terrorism laws prohibit them from coming to the US, but
critics say the government can provide waivers.
Tom Malinowski, of Human Rights Watch, said the state department had
for months argued internally that the US should provide waivers for a
few detainees to put pressure on other countries to help, but had met
resistance from the justice department and Mr Cheney. ![]() |
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Death
of Detained Immigrant Inspires Online Game With Goal of Educating
Players
Posted: 07 Oct 2008 10:09 PM CDT
By
NINA BERNSTEIN The death last year of Boubacar Bah, a Guinean tailor
held in a New Jersey jail for overstaying his visa, showed immigration
detention to be one of the most secretive corners of American life. But
now Mr. Bah’s story is being retold in an unusually public way: in an
online video game. [...] ![]() |
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AP
Exclusive: Documents say detainee near insanity
Posted: 07 Oct 2008 09:43 PM CDT
"I
will continue to do what I can to help this individual maintain his
sanity, but in my opinion we're working with borrowed time," an
unidentified Navy brig official wrote of prisoner Yaser Esam Hamdi in
2002. "I would like to have some form of an incentive program in place
to reward him for his continued good behavior, but more so, to keep him
from whacking out on me." ![]() |
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