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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Here is the complaint against Yoo
http://howappealing.law.com/PadillaVsYooComplaint.pdf
No Comments » - Posted in Civil and Political Rights,United States by Sean
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Padilla sues John Yoo for torture
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that US citizen Jose Padilla filed a lawsuit in a California federal district court this morning against former deputy assistant Attorney General John Yoo: “The suit filed this morning in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, turns the spotlight of blame on Yoo, the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Civil and Political Rights,Terrorism,United States by Sean
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Navy JAG Andrew Williams Resigns Over Torture
Lt. Cmdr. Andrew Williams, a JAG officer with the U.S. Naval Reserve, recently resigned his commission over the alleged use of torture by the United States and the destruction of video tapes said to contain instances of that torture. As ThinkProgress reported in December, Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann, the legal adviser at Guantanamo Bay, […]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Sean
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Genocidaires beware . . .
From Jurist: The Genocide Accountability Act of 2007 [text, PDF] modifies Section 1091, Title 18 USC [text], which had limited genocide prosecution to US nationals or to offenses by non-nationals committed inside the US. The new law will add aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence, stateless persons whose habitual residence is in the US, and […]
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Bush Signs Sudan Divestment Bill
Between photo shoots of himself clearing brush, somehow POTUS managed to get some work in. Does anyone have any information on Notre Dame’s holdings in companies that are active in Sudan?
1 Comment » - Posted in Africa,War and Violent Conflict by Sean
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Amnesty for Bob Mugabe?
According to the Washington Post, the International Crisis Group is backing a new plan to “save” Zimbabwe. Just what is this silver bullet, you ask? The plan calls for Robert Mugabe to live out his golden years in peace, with all the silver and gold he has allegedly plundered from international donors while his “liberated” country has sunk deeper and deeper […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Africa,Civil and Political Rights,Economic and Social Rights by Sean
Friday, July 27th, 2007
Unsolved [read: uninvestigated] civil rights slayings
Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP’s Washington bureau, recently stated “A good percentage of African-Americans are leery of our Justice Department. When there hasn’t been a real effort to deal with [unsolved civil rights slayings] how can we count on them to provide the support and protection we need today?” For you users of the […]
