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Transfer for Guantanamo detainees - 16 Dec 09

Guantanamo Detainees Repatriated to Home Countries

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the repatriation of 12 detainees from the infamous Guantanamo Bay Prison to their home countries. The prisoners were sent to Somalia, Yemen and Afghanistan. ...

created by Barbara McPherson | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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Gitmo. Get Going

It as announced that President Obama plans on sending some of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners to prisons in Illinois. The prisoners, alledged terrorists, will be held in Thompson Prison which lies 150 miles west of Chicago. It’s in the sticks, an extremely rural area...

opinion by CherrieJW | 2 wks ago
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albertacowpoke

Afghan Prisoner Transfers - IRC informed late by Canadian Gov

According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada delayed telling the Red Cross about prisoner transfers to Afghan authorities. The Corporation has obtained military documents that details...

created by albertacowpoke | 5 wks ago | updated 5 wks ago
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Obama looks for more options besides sending 40,000 troops

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Afghan Prisoners were Tortured - Senior Diplomat Testifies

Richard Colvin, a Senior Canadian Diplomat, presently employed in Washington, DC, testified in front of a Parliamentary Comnmittee investigating allegations of Afghan prisoner abuse. The prisoners in...

created by albertacowpoke | 5 wks ago | updated 5 wks ago
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israeli.agent

Cdn Parliamentary Commission-investigates handling Afghan POWs

What happens to Taliban prisoners captured by Canadians on the battlefied? This is presently investigated by a Canadian Parliamentary Commission. There are allegations of prisoner abuse of those...

created by albertacowpoke | 5 wks ago
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XxDeMoNxX

China Organ Transplant Scandal, 65% Come from Death Row Inmates

China has an organ transplant scandal on its hands. It seems that in 65% of all organ transplants performed in China death row inmates have been the donors. With 65% of all organ donor being death row inmates it is...

created by LarryDeezell | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago
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Babel-Fish

Son of leading scientist dies in jail.

"Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi run in the streets during protests in Tehran, Iran, June 16, 2009. Photograph: Getty Images/Getty Images Fears are mounting over the...

opinion by Babel-Fish | 22 wks ago
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sivakaran

End the farse, free doctors

Robert Templer, Asia program director of the International Crisis Group called government of Sri Lanka to alter course, provide a clear timetable to resettle the IDPs, and release the doctors. An estimated...

created by sivakaran | 22 wks ago
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Gov't Considers Chopping Down on Terrorists' Rights

"(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has appointed a ministerial committee to see if it possible to downgrade the prison condition of Arab terrorists to those of Gilad Shalit in captivity. Terror victim expert Meir Indor says Arab terrorists' conditions in Israeli...

created by René | 40 wks ago
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Taleban release Chinese engineer in Pakistan

Taleban militants in north-western Pakistan have released a Chinese engineer held hostage for more than five months. The engineer, Long Xiaowei, along with a Chinese colleague in the August in the Dir region. A Pakistani guard and driver who had been captured with the two...

created by Sanjay Jha | 45 wks ago | updated 45 wks ago
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Four prisoners executed in Japan

Japan has executed four death-row inmates. Japan still continues with capital punishment. Most of the countries have done away with this practice. " Japan has carried out the execution of four prisoners on death...

created by Sanjay Jha | 47 wks ago | updated 47 wks ago
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MG Paul D_ Eaton (Ret_) on GITMO Closing

Karen Hatter

A Scavenger Hunt for Guantanamo Case Files?

Although there has been a forceful thrust by President Obama's new administration for closing the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba prison as quickly as possible, with the president signing an executive order...

created by Karen Hatter | 48 wks ago | updated 48 wks ago
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Torture Rife in Equatorial Guinea, UN Confirms

This is a small country, one many have never heard of, but torture as government must be opposedwhere ever it is found." The Equatoguinean opposition has all along maintained that the practise of torture remains...

created by 158 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Israel Frees Palestinian Prisoners

Israel has gone ahead with its promised release of 200 Palestinian prisoners today, part of a move to try to shore up the position of Palestinian president Abbas. However even as Israel releases the prisoners, the country arrested 17 Palestinians in the West Bank today"...

created by Dave Keating | 1 year ago
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Israel to release 250 Palestinian prisoners

TEL AVIV: The Israeli cabinet on Sunday approved the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas amid persistent violence around the Hamas-ruled Gaza StripThe move followed a pledge by acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert...