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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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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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Hogan takes charge to solve ARV crisis
by Anso Thom The Health Department has intervened in the crisis in the Free State after financial mismanagement has caused a shortage of antiretroviral drugs. E-mails were sent to ARV treatment sites in the province last week, ordering them to stop putting new patients on…
Author: Pretoria News (South Africa)
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Detainee Rights: A Step Forward in the U.S., Back in the UK
Last week was a dramatic one, on both sides of the Atlantic, in the battle to preserve fundamental human rights against the recent disturbing tendencies of two of the world’s leading democracies to invoke fear of terrorism to claim extraordinary and excessive powers. In the…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Refugees 'beaten, shocked' by metro cops
The Aids Law Project, the Legal Resources Centre and Lawyers for Human Rights are Atlantic grantees. by Louise Flanagan Destitute people who were arrested while sleeping outside the Methodist Church in central Joburg a week ago say police beat them, insulted them, gave them electric…
Author: The Star (South Africa)
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Henrico Schools Take Steps to Reduce Racial Disparities in Suspensions
By Graham Moomaw In an effort to reduce racial disparities in student suspension rates, Henrico County Public Schools announced a partnership Monday with the Legal Aid Justice Center, a Virginia-based advocacy group that offers legal representation and other services to low-income people. Under the agreement,…
Author: Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Seeking to Intervene With Young Adults Before Crime Becomes a Way of Life
Original Source By KAREEM FAHIM Almost every time he was released from jail, Wilfredo Hierrezuelo stumbled back in, once after an arrest for dealing drugs, another time after he assaulted a school safety guard. By the time he walked out of Rikers Island in October…
Author: The New York Times
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Court Backs Bush on Military Detentions
Original Source By ADAM LIPTAK President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision. But a second, overlapping 5-to-4 majority…
Author: The New York Times
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12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement
Joseph Coughlin describes his work as “trying to get people to ‘age cool.’ ” More specifically, as director of AgeLab, a research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is pushing advances in transportation, health care and housing off drawing boards and into older…
Author: Wall Street Journal
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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