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Addressing violence against all women
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22 April 2012
Meghan Rhoad
The bill to renew the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) faces a likely vote in the Senate next week, but its provisions that would assist immigrant women who are victims of violence have drawn some inexplicable opposition. The country’s single most important law for addressing domestic abuse, sexual violence, and stalking has offered life-saving protections to immigrant women since it first passed in 1994.
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Hundreds of Kyrgyz prisoners sew lips shut in hunger strike
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25 January 2012
A picture taken inside a prison in the Kyrgyzstan's city of Osh, on January 20, 2012, shows a prisoner looking through a hatch in a door of his prison cell. More than 1,000 detainees in prisons around Kyrgyzstan sewed yesterday their lips together in protest at their conditions, authorities in the Central Asian country said. AFP photo
Three thousand prisoners were on a hunger strike Wednesday in Kyrgyzstan with several hundred sewing shut their lips with staples and thread to protest jail conditions, officials said.
"Over three thousand convicts are refusing food in Kyrgyzstan, about 640 have sewn their lips shut," the Central Asian country's ombudsman Tursunbek Akun told journalists.
Prisoners in the country's largest prison in Bishkek are in a serious condition, he said, with some having to be hospitalised due to not taking food.
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Halil Savda Released
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13 December 2011
Conscientious objector Halil Savda was released after he gave his statement to the prosecutor.
He had been taken into custody at the airport in Istanbul when he was about to follow an invitation of Amnesty International to Paris.
Ekin KARACA
Conscientious objector Halil Savda was released on 7 December after he was taken into police custody one day earlier at the Atatürk Airport in Istanbul.
Savda was about to travel to Paris on an invitation of Amnesty International. He was taken into custody at the passport control because of an "arrest warrant" that had been issued about him. He was kept in custody for 24 hours because the fax of his case file from Eskişehir was sent with delay.
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Russian authorities must stop mistreatment of peaceful protesters
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08 December 2011
More than 1000 people have been arrested since Sunday © Chernavskiy Alexander / Demotix
The Russian authorities must halt police mistreatment of election protesters, journalists and detainees, ahead of further planned opposition demonstrations, Amnesty International said today.
More than 1,000 people, including journalists, were reportedly detained following demonstrations against the manipulation of votes at Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Figures vary, but possibly more than 100 remain in detention, though many have been released pending court hearings.
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USA repeatedly shipped arms supplies to Egyptian security forces
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08 December 2011
The US says it has seen no evidence that tear gas is being misused by Egyptian security forces © Nameer Galal/Demotix
Data obtained by Amnesty International shows that the US has repeatedly transferred ammunition to Egypt despite security forces' violent crackdown on protesters.
A shipment for the Egyptian Ministry of Interior arrived from the US on 26 November carrying at least seven tons of "ammunition smoke" - which includes chemical irritants and riot control agents such as tear gas.
It was one of at least three arms deliveries to Egypt by the US company Combined Systems, Inc. since the brutal crackdown on the "25 January Revolution" protesters.
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Anuncian que el activista Mumia Abu-Jamal no será ejecutado
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08 December 2011
PENA DE MUERTE
El periodista y militante de los Panteras Negras, que lleva preso desde 1981 y condenado a muerte desde 1982, no será finalmente ejecutado, según sus abogados.
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Ley del silencio frente a la propuesta de exhumar los restos de Franco
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01 December 2011
Crónica | En el Valle de los Caídos
Nadie habla en el Valle de los Caídos, el gran mausoleo que custodia los restos de Francisco Franco y José Antonio Primo de Rivera, así como de combatientes franquistas y miles de represaliados republicanos. ni los monjes benedictinos ni los miembros del organismo que se encarga del patrimonio del Estado español abren la boca un día después de que un comité de expertos recomendase la exhumación del dictador.
Alberto PRADILLA
«El abad está ahora mismo reunido. Llame por teléfono para concertar una cita». Esta es la única respuesta obtenida ayer a las puertas de la Abadía de la Santa Cruz, en el Valle de los Caídos, ubicada en la parte trasera de la inmensa cruz que preside el panteón. Ni rastro de Fray Anselmo Álvarez, el religioso que ha oficiado algunas de las misas con las que la utraderecha recuerda a Franco cada 20 de noviembre. Y eso que, después de la presentación de las recomendaciones de la comisión de expertos, este fraile se ha convertido una de las piezas clave del debate. Su palabra será influyente teniendo en cuenta que la Iglesia tendrá la última palabra en caso de que el futuro Gobierno español acepte los planteamientos del comité. La familia del dictador ya ha expresado su rechazo, pero son las sotanas quienes disponen de capacidad de veto. «Con la polémica que se ha generado, nadie quiere hablar», confirma una trabajadora de la abadía. Como única alternativa, ofrece un número de teléfono al que no contesta nadie.
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Rethinking military service
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25 November 2011
The matter was hotly debated for months and a decision eagerly awaited, but Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's announcement of the terms for paid army duty exemption has not put an end to the controversy. The new provisions have yet to be approved by Parliament.
According to the new bill, people above the age of 30 will be able to skip military service by paying TL 30,000. Partial exemptions in the past called for conscripts to serve at least 21 days of basic training. Expatriate Turks will be able to avoid army duty through payment of 10,000 euros.
The interest that such programs generate punctures the official myth that Turks are born soldiers and all young men see military service as a necessary rite of passage that will turn them into real men. Many would opt for an exemption if given half a chance, and are in fact willing to pay significant amounts of money for it.
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The Return of the Albuquerque Death Squads
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24 November 2011
by DAVID CORREIA
Albuquerque.
On November 13 of this year the Albuquerque police oversight commission cleared one of its own for the fatal shooting in September of 2010 of 19-year old Chandler Barr. The officer, a bicycle cop on her first day on the job, shot the mentally ill Barr twice in the chest after he threatened her with a butter knife. Barr is one of 20 young men shot by Albuquerque police in the last two years, and one of 14 dead from their injuries. The long list of young men—mostly Hispanic and many of them mentally ill or drug users—incudes also Dominic Robert Smith shot and killed on October 1, 2009 by an officer that, according to Margaret Ann Saiz, Robert’s mother, “said that my soon looked like he was mentally retarded.” Smith was behaving erratically and shoving pills in his mouth when an Albuquerque Police officer, using his favorite hunting rifle, fired a round into the unarmed man’s chest.
In May of this year Mark Gomez found his brother Alan high on drugs and “acting crazy.” Not knowing how to intervene and scared that his brother would hurt himself, he called 911. Alan Gomez became another statistic when an APD officer shot him in the back. Gomez was armed at the time with a plastic spoon.
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Vegan prisoner on hunger strike
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10 November 2011
Association of Freedom for World staged a demonstration yesterday to protest Kırıkkale F-Type High Security Prison’s negligence about the demands of vegan prisoner Osman Evcan for the last four years.
Making a statement to the press in front of Galatasaray High School in Istanbul, members of the Association of Freedom for World underlined that prisoner Evcan’s situation hasn’t been improved despite the application letters he wrote so far to express his situation. The statement added that; “Following the one-year process shaped with the insensitivity of authorities and their criminal acts, Osman Evcan has begun a hunger strike as of 4 November.
Osman Evcan's friends have launched a campaign on internet (http://osmanayemek.tumblr.com/english) where there is also a petition to sign. The support campaign is called the Campaign for Vegan Food to Osman Evcan has been started, but so far, the petitions to the authorities by Evcan himself and by the Campaign have been ignored. A member of parliament, Melda Onur, submitted a written question to Ministry of Interior in the National Assembly asking as to why Evcan’s issue is being ignored and not considered. She visited Evcan in prison, but the prison authorities wouldn’t let her give the food she brought for Evcan.
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