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Abu-Jamal, Mumia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An African-American activist who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His conviction was based on dubious evidence and dubious legal proceedings. (Born 1954).
Blogger jailed for insulting leaders dies in Iran's Evin prison
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for an immediate investigation into the March 18 death of an Iranian blogger imprisoned in Tehran's notorious Evin prisonâ##.
Hypocrisy over Cuba's 'political prisoners'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Political prisoners and Cuba can be a confusing mix, in our time of mass propaganda. Three groups have attracted international attention over the past decade.
Obama's Liberty Problem
Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order will threaten the liberty of every single US citizen who is not in Guantanamo because it will damage the due process guarantees which have built up over the years to protect each one of us.
Predicting Torture
The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Bradley Manning is charged with leaking classified documents to Wikileaks and faces a court martial. The conditions of his confinement are extreme, and amount to torture.
Tunisian journalist in desert prison could die from untreated asthma attacks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukadous has been in extremely poor health since police arrested him on 15 July to begin serving a four-year jail sentence for covering protests in the Gafsa mining region of Tunisia.
Uyghur journalist and website editor sentenced to fifteen years in jail
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged at the harshness of a 15-year prison sentence handed down to journalist Gheyret Niyaz by a court in Urumqi, in Xinjiang province, China.

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