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Melvin Blevins Jailed For Forcing 18-Month Niece To Smoke Weed

Melvin Blevins, 19 years old, has been arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison for video taping himself forcing his 18 month old niece to smoke marijana. The video tape was found inside a camera at a pawn shop in Ohio. Blevins is shown giving the little girl a glass...

created by Annina Bergman | 13 wks ago
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Bush Dodges Shoes Thrown by Iraqi Journalist

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Release Of Shoe Thrower Muntadhar al-Zaidi Delayed

The release of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who shoveled both of his shoes at former US President George W. Bush during a Baghdad press conference in December of last year, is delayed. Al-Zaidi was...

created by Yuliya Talmazan | 14 wks ago | updated 14 wks ago
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Dolphin Van abductions scares people - BBC

Tamils detained in Vavuniya camps are being abducted everyday by people who come in 'Dolphin Vans' " Displaced Tamil people are being daily abducted from camps in Vavuniya by people who come in vans, a displaced...

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created by senthil5000 | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago
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Dylan's 'W.W.I.' (Walking Without ID): The John Lennon Treatment?

• Is folk-rock icon "Only a Pawn in Their Game" -- a covert war against "dissidents," intellectuals, journalists and the cultural vanguard?GET POLITICAL w/ VIC LIVINGSTON In America, even at the Jersey shore, a "W.W.I." -- walking without ID -- isn't supposed to get...

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opinion by Scrivener | 18 wks ago | updated 18 wks ago
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Protests in Honduras Against Coup | Photo 02

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The Silenced Human Rights Violations in Honduras

While analysts, diplomats, politicians and the general population are discussing whether the coup suffered in Honduras on June the 28th was Hugo Chávez's fault or not, Human Rights Organizations are calling...

created by Arbol | 22 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago
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Sri Lanka captured Canadian

A Canadian is kept in the camps for the former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cadres. These camps are different than the detention camps that the Sri Lankan government calls as welfare villages. The Sri Lankan...

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created by sivakaran | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago
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Sri Lanka camps a 'national disgrace'

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Sri Lanka's treatment in the detention camps a national disgrace. " "For more than a year, the Sri Lankan government has detained virtually everyone, including entire families,...

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created by sivakaran | 27 wks ago | updated 27 wks ago
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Cebu inmates dance to Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire

The Cebu inmates, the dancing prisoners from Cebu in the Philippines who became instant sensations due to their dance to Michael Jackson's Thriller, are back with their lastest mass dance to Jai Ho from Slumdog...

created by Amy Judd | 28 wks ago | updated 28 wks ago
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Sri Lanka silencing voices

Sri Lanka: Avoid a Postwar Witch Hunt- Human Rights Watch Enforced disappearances and killings of people suspected of being LTTE supporters also occurred in association with the government's taking of...

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created by sivakaran | 29 wks ago | updated 29 wks ago
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60 Elderly Persons burried in one mass grave

Deaths at the IDP camps of Sri Lanka gets increasing due to lack of proper food and medicine. Sri Lanka government has not given full access to the aid agencies who are willing to help the people inside the camp. Elderly people and babies are the...

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created by senthil5000 | 29 wks ago | updated 29 wks ago
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Up to 30,000 'disabled' by Sri Lankan shells

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Up to 30,000 'disabled' by Sri Lankan shells

Sri Lanka's shelling made up to 30,000 tamil people disabled. A french charity in Batticaloa producing artificial limbs has got "huge demand". But Mahinda Rajapakse is still claiming his army rescued...

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created by senthil5000 | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago
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BBC Interview with Charu Lata Hogg Vakthaa TV

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Tamil children 'being abducted' from detention camps

Tamil childrens from the detention camps in sri lanka are being abducted by gangs linked to the government. As there is no independent monitors in these fully army controlled camps, the children are under huge...

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created by senthil5000 | 31 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago
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Obama reverses course on alleged prison abuse photos

" WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama has ordered government lawyers to object to the planned release of additional detainee photos, the White House said Wednesday. ...

created by VLOGZ | 32 wks ago
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A cellphone photo from Sri Lanka's detention camp

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Sri Lanka - Atleast four deaths reported in barbed-wire camp

Tamils kept inside the barbed-wire detention camps face humanatarian issues. The first reported deaths inside the camp was atleast four. There are many such unreported crimes which doesn't get attention....

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created by senthil5000 | 33 wks ago | updated 33 wks ago
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Gaza activist now tweeting about her detainment in Cairo airport

This was just tweeted from Laila El-Haddad, otherwise known as 'Gazamom' at the Cairo airport. She is with her two very young children and it on her way back to Gaza from the US and Canada. "am now being told...

created by mtippett | 37 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago
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