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Connecticut State House Votes to Repeal Death Penalty
This article highlights Atlantic grantee Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty (CNADP) in its report that the Connecticut House of Representatives voted to repeal the death penalty with an 86-62 vote. The repeal now moves to the desk of Governor Dannel P. Malloy, who…
Author: Connecticut Post
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Department of Homeland Security-funded counterterror trainings smear Muslims
PRA’s groundbreaking exposé of how tax dollars fund anti-Muslim trainings for police and counterterrorism personnel won the attention of news outlets and policy makers at its release this spring. We’ve been keeping the pressure on the Department of Homeland Security to stop funding flawed and bigoted…
Author: PRA in the News
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Obama and the Left
Original Source by Gara LaMarche As the Obama Administration has in recent days taken a couple of steps in the civil liberties/national security area — opposing release of torture photos and declaring an intent to retain some form of military commissions for terror suspects (while…
Author: The Huffington Post
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Counterterrorism and the New Administration
Original Source by Christopher Preble I was planning to take this space to plug Cato’s forthcoming conference “ Shaping the Obama Administration’s Counterterrorism Strategy,” but we’ve had such an overwhelming response that we’ve had to turn registrants away. But what the heck, I’ll plug it anyway…
Author: Partnership for a Secure America
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Law Professor Elected President of the A.C.L.U.
The American Civil Liberties Union elected a new president on Saturday, choosing a constitutional law scholar who said she would reach out to African-Americans and to religious communities where the group has often been viewed more as foe than friend. The selection of Susan Herman,…
Author: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Victory for Liberty's Charge or Release Campaign
The Government has dropped plans for 42 days detention. Last night saw a resounding victory for Liberty’s long running Charge or Release campaign. Common sense and common decency prevailed as the Government dropped plans to detain terror suspects for 42 days without charge, following an…
Author: Liberty
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Troubles past: Northern Ireland conflict remembered
by Stephen Bates As a memorial it may have somewhat lacked the poignancy of a Remembrance Sunday or the sense of devastating loss from the trenches of the first world war, but yesterday, with due ceremony, the longest British military deployment in history – the…
Author: The Guardian (London)
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Suicide on the Brink of Release; Families, Attorneys Push to Hold Guantanamo Officials Liable
by Josh White When Mani al-Utaybi fixed a makeshift noose around his neck and hanged himself in a Guantanamo Bay cell in June 2006, the Saudi Arabian detainee had been close to being transferred to his homeland and freed, his attorney and military officials said.…
Author: The Washington Post
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Hundreds of Workers Held in Immigration Raid
by ADAM NOSSITER LAUREL, Miss. – In another large-scale workplace immigration crackdown, federal officials raided a factory here on Monday, detaining at least 350 workers they said were in the country illegally. Numerous agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement descended on a factory belonging to…
Author: The New York Times
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Spying uncovered: Documents show state police monitored peace and anti-death penalty groups
Original Source By Nick Madigan, Sun Reporter Undercover Maryland State Police officers repeatedly spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups in recent years and entered the names of some in a law-enforcement database of people thought to be terrorists or drug traffickers, newly released…
Author: Baltimore Sun
