Migrants imprisoned at Campsfield House detention prison are being paid slave wages it has been discovered.
GEO, the multinational corporation that runs Campsfield under contract from the Home Office, not content with making huge sums of taxpayers money to imprison people whose only crime is to have come to the UK in search of a better [...]
This practice advisory focuses on the law governing the arrest, detention and bond procedures for people present in the United States who do not have criminal convictions. <?xml:namespace prefix = o />Please click here AILA Doc. No. 08081465.
JSMP Justice Update 2008BackgroundOn 2O May 2008, the President of the Republic issued a decree granting clemency to some 94 prisoners. Many had their sentences halved. As a result, a number of applications have recently been heard by the Dili District Court, contending eligibility for parole on the basis of these reductions. JSMP has obtained documents confirming the parole of former minister Rog
Want to know your MP's thoughts on 42 day detention?The Public Whip have created a new webpage where you can compare your views on 42 day detention to your representative's.The page was built by Julian Todd.Public Whip say in their newsletterEven though the votes in Parliament by other MPs will count exactly thesame as David Davis's, they are unlikely to devote so much timepublicizing their own re
From World Net Daily
Two seventh-grade boys were given detention and their classmates forced to miss their scheduled refreshment break when the pair refused to kneel and pray to Allah during a religious studies class.
Outraged parents called the punishment of the boys for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration at Alsager High School [...]
The eight-month McClatchy investigation found a pattern of abuse that continued for years. The abuse of detainees at Bagram has been reported by US media organisations, in particular the New York Times, which broke several developments in the story. But the extent of the mistreatment, and that it eclipsed the alleged abuse at Guantánamo, hasn't previously been revealed. Guards said they rou
Mom Commits Drug Dealer Son to Rehab and Juvenile Detention at Own Expense - "What's a mother to do?" she asked as she admitted her out of control son into juvenile hall. This was done at the parent's expense. In her explanation she claimed that it did not burden the tax payer because she paid for it. Indeed, at first glance it sure looks that way, however that drug dealing son of hers is the culm
First of all, say what you will about the terrorists and detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - I kind of like these guys. They’ve been going on pointless hunger strikes and committing suicide every chance they get all in hopes of embracing the “Evil American Empire” and attaining martyrdom. Having fought this enemy [...]
Gitmo Was Going To Be Shut Down AnywayHostages Of Terrorists Don't Have Rights...The US Supreme Court Thursday ruled Guantanamo prisoners have the right to challenge their detention at the US military base in civilian courts, dealing a stiff rebuke to the Bush administration. "The laws and constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times," the court said in its his
What, you thought the Mazzi/Mic Terror beef had run its course? You should know better than that. I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of Mazzi either.
Previously: Mic Terror - Detention (Mazzi Dis) [Audio] | Mazzi - Class Dismissed (Mic Terror Dis) [Video]
Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Great Britain has been pushing for power to extend the time period in which “suspected terrorists” so they can be detained up to 42 days. Some of Britain’s senior police officers broke ranks with their colleagues by denouncing these plans. Four senior police officers told the Guardian they had concerns [...]
I'm not going to write much now, except to say that pushing this set of proposals through Parliament is not about the need to protect our freedom; that has been shown ad nauseam. It is about the need to protect Mr Brown's government's collective backside; they have painted themselves into a corner at a time when they have little political capital left and can't afford to admit that they are wrong.
George Sampson has spent so long trying to live his dream, but now the Britain’s Got Talent has come crashing back down to earth. Young George has only gone and got himself in to an 80-minute school detention. He has been given the detention as he has been repeatedly late for school, due to the [...]
Prime Minister Gordon Brown was insistent that police should have the right to detain suspected terrorists for up to 42 days without any charges being presented against them. He is facing a probable defeat in parliament on the issue, but is determined to stick to his guns on what he believes is essential to deal [...]
SINGAPORE: The superintendent of the Whitley Road Detention Centre has been sacked over security lapses that led to the escape of Jemaah Islamiyah detainee Mas Selamat Kastari on February 27. His deputy has been demoted, with a corresponding pay cut.The two were the most senior officers in charge of the ground management of the detention centre, and were among six Internal Security Department (ISD
Superintendent of detention centre sacked over Singapore Mas Selamat’s escape
By Wong Siew Ying,
SINGAPORE: The superintendent of the Whitley Road Detention Centre has been sacked over security lapses that led to the escape of Jemaah Islamiyah detainee Mas Selamat Kastari on February 27. His deputy has been demoted, with a corresponding pay cut.
The two [...]
Protests are mounting all over the world against the year-long detention of Dr. Binayak Sen, a distinguished Indian human rights and health activist, under draconian laws in the central state of Chhattisgarh. Sen, national vice president and Chhattisgarh general secretary of the well-known People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), was arrested under allegations of helping left-wing extremists, k
Mom Commits Drug Dealer Son To Rehab And Juvenile Detention At Own Expense, But - "What's a mother to do?" she asked as she admitted her out of control son into juvenile hall. This was done at the parent's expense. In her explanation she claimed that it did not burden the tax payer because she paid for it. Indeed, at first glance it sure looks that way, however that drug dealing son of hers is the
Yusif Osman’s Body
Yusif Osman was a U.S. legal resident from Ghana and had been living in Los Angeles for five years. After a companion carrying false ID landed him in immigration detention, Osman was facing deportation on smuggling charges, an allegation he denied. While at an immigration detention center outside San Diego, he died suddenly. [...]
The political scandal over the CIA’s transfer of alleged terrorists to overseas prisons where they are subject to torture has now embroiled governments throughout Europe. Airplanes operated by CIA-front companies carrying detainees have landed many times at European airports before flying off to countries where the prisoners are held incommunicado and tortured, with the knowledge and even direc
By Yang Xiaojing in Mainland China
I am the wife of Cao Dong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Beijing. On May 21st, 2006, Cao Dong met with Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice-President of the European Parliament, and told him about the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Two hours after the meeting, Cao Dong was arrested [...]
I’m not a big fan of Raja Petra Kamaruddin and his Malaysia Today blog. I really didn’t like his style of outright bashing of fellow Muslims and Malays (no matter how bad they may be) on his blog, very much to the glee and delight of the non-Muslims and non-Malays here in Malaysia.Who will lose in the long run? Can’t you see it, my fellow Muslim & Malay Brothers and Sisters?Well RPK, I certainly hope that you know what you are doing this time. Good luck nonetheless!Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, reported:Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Avoid suspicion, for suspicion is the gravest lie in talk and do not be inquisitive about one another and do not spy upon one another and do not feel envy with the other, and nurse no malice, and nurse no aversion and
In U.S. jails and detention camps, immigrants are dying of gross mis-treatment including medical neglect
Word spread quickly inside the windowless walls of the Elizabeth Detention Center, an immigration jail in New Jersey: A detainee had fallen, injured his head and become incoherent. Guards had put him in solitary confinement, and late that night, an [...]
From: US Detention of Iraqis Grows Without End According to an October 31 report by the military paper Stars and Stripes, US forces will be increasing the capacity of detainees at Camp Bucca from 20,000 to 30,000. (1) An ever-increasing prison population has put extreme pressure on detainment facilities as well as on Iraq's fragile, developing judicial system. The New York Times reported on February 14 that more than half of the 26,000 detainees in US custody are still awaiting trial - many having been imprisoned for years. (2) For example, Bilal Hussein, a photographer from The Associated Press, has been detained by the US military since April of 2006, while no evidence or charges have been brought forward against him in court. (3) Bilal Hussein is one of many individua
The Jerusalem Post - Teheran's police chief, who was in charge of fighting vice, has been taken to jail and his case is currently under investigation, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary said Tuesday.But the spokesman, Ali Reza Jamshidi, refused to elaborate further about the case which has caught wide public attention in Iran, saying it is now in the "legal stage." Local media have reported that the police chief, Gen. Reza Zarei, was taken to jail after he was caught last month with six nude women by a police raid on an underground local brothel.
From: Britain monitoring 30 terror plots: interior minister British police and security agencies are keeping tabs on 30 terror plots, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told a Sunday newspaper. "There are 22,000 individuals who are being monitored. There are 200 networks involved and 30 active plots," Smith said in an interview with the News of the World. "We now face a threat level that is severe. It's actually growing," said the interior minister.
Student disciplined after stopping out-of-control school bus School bus driver falls out of seat Amanda Rouse wasn't supposed to be on the bus with 40 elementary school students, but the high school student managed to stop the careening vehicle after the driver fell out of her seat. And although the 15-year-old Marina High School student averted a possible tragedy, she is being disciplined by school authorities for being on the bus in the first place.Rouse was sitting behind the driver's seat and pulled the emergency brake when driver Christine L. Graves fell out of her seat and down the stairs as she made the turn in Seaside about 8 a.m. Wednesday...This from the San Jose Mercury.
The military intervention brought an end to gruesome street-battles between two feuding political camps led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Awami League, and at first many Bangladeshis welcomed the de facto coup. But skyrocketing prices, a devastated economy and rampant human rights abuses have changed their minds. Over the past year, the military has set up torture and detention
Far be it from The Church being sensationalist or subscribing to conspiracy theory, but this was so freaking eerie that we had to pass it along, check an excerpt:
"In January when the Army Corps of Engineers awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root a $385 million contract to construct detention centers somewhere in the United States, to deal with "an emergency influx of immigrants
Illinois middle school bans public displays of affection;parents urge change MASCOUTAH, Ill. - Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter. The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of affection when she hugged two friends Friday.“I feel it is crazy,” said Megan, who was to serve her second detention Tuesday after classes at Mascoutah Middle School.“I was just giving them a hug goodbye for the weekend,” she said......District Superintendent Sam McGowen said that he thinks the penalty is fair and that administrators in the school east of St. Louis were following policy in the student handbook.It states: “Displays of affection should not occur on the school campus at any time. It is in poor taste, reflects poor judgment, and brings discredit to the school and to the persons involved.” ...This from MSNBC.com.
I was held several times in the Changchun No. 1 Detention Centre for informing people about the true nature of Falun Gong and the persecution. One of the tactics officials in these detention centres use on detainees, including Falun Gong practitioners, is “sleep torture.”
According to detention centre regulations, a 25-watt light bulb in each cell [...]
Have you read about the eighth-grade girl from Missouri who received two days of detention for hugging her friends? Apparently the school district has a strict rule against public displays of affection, which is evident in the fact that this otherwise well-behaved 13-year-old served her second day of detention yesterday.
The associated press quotes the student saying: “I’m just hoping the school board will open their eyes and just realize that maybe they shouldn’t be punishing us for hugs.”
Well said. For the full story visit MSNBC.com.
I agree that public displays of affection (often referred to as PDA in middle-schools across the country) is inappropriate. I don’t like doing it and I don’t like seeing other people doing it, but what is IT? I think the problem here is in the semantics.
According to the DatingTales First Edition Dictionary, public display of affection is defined as physical contact between two or more people romantically involved in the presence of
This is a comment to an earlier posting, “Privatized Prisons for Immigrants,” which I feel it deserves its own post.
A letter from the Elizabeth (NJ) Immigrant Detention Center
To Whom It May Concern.
This letter is on behalf of all the inmates at the Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey. This “prison” or “detention center” is run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). We have written this letter because of the mistreatment treatment from CCA Officers and the problems that this center has. First of all, the CCA officers here have chosen a career working with the public. They have an option to work here or not, and we are sure that there is no job requirement that states that they must treat people like animals as they do. Many of the officer are obnoxious and rude. They constantly curse at inmates and put them down. We already have very low self-esteem because of being in custody for immigration issues, why make us feel even
Serin, Geo y Bravo han sido castigados por el Director a permanecer encerrados en el colegio. Inreactúa con ellos en todas las dependencias escolares encontrando y combinando objetos que les permitan escapar del castigo y del colegio en este juego de rol en 3D. Si deseas conocer la solución consulta la guia aquí.
A new horror flick made its big-screen debut Monday before a captive audience.Eagles players, accustomed to getting the day after a game off unless they need treatment for an injury, were summoned to the team's South Philadelphia practice facility by coach Andy Reid for a team meeting and film review of their 19-16 loss to the Chicago Bears.''There's a problem and we need to make sure we fix it,'' Reid said. ''I don't want it to sit another day or two. I want to make sure we get in so that the fellows can move on to [preparations for] Minnesota.''I want them, No. 1, to look at the film and evaluate their mistakes. Then I want them to get it out of their minds fast and move on. We've got a good football team that we're going to play in Minnesota this week, and it's important that we learn from this and that we get it changed around quick.''The extra day of mental work did not seem to surprise Eagles players...Read more from The Morning Call>>
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is likely to face unexpected criticism of his government’s human rights record today, when he attends the annual summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan. National trade union organisations in a number of SCO states have renewed pressure on Iran to release two detained labour leaders, Mansour Ossanloo and Mahmoud Salehi. The initiative forms part of a worldwide trade union campaign aimed at securing freedom for the two prisoners, kicked off last week with trade unions taking action in over 30 countries worldwide.
More here.
Another imprisoned activist for human rights has been released, Haleh Esfandiar.
Swedish Newspaper reports about that.
Dr. Haleh Esfandiari (Persian: هاله اسفندیاری) (b. March 3, 1940) is an Iranian American academic and the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Her areas of expertis
President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror, Thanks Troops, FULL STREAMING VIDEO PODCASTThis afternoon, the President signed an Executive Order that interprets for the United States "Common Article 3" of the Geneva Conventions, as authorized in the Military Commissions Act. The Order interprets the meaning and application of Common Article 3 with respect to certain detentions and interrogations.Specifically, the interpretation of Common Article 3 set forth in this Order is applied to the Central Intelligence Agency's detention and interrogation program whose purpose is to question captured Al Qaeda terrorists who have information on attack plans or the whereabouts of the group's senior leaders.The Order requires that any CIA interrogation program that might go forward comply with all relevant federal statutes, including the prohibition on "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment" in the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, the federal prohibition on torture, and the War Cri
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will make the United States "regret" its detention of five Iranian officials in Iraq, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tuesday.
Oh really. And how would they propose to do that? Perhaps by using the Iraqis as proxies and developing nuclear weapons? Naahh. Only Bush wants war.
– Paris Hilton was released from a Los Angeles County jail early Thursday because of an unspecified medical problem and will fulfill the reminder of her sentence in home confinement, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
The 26-year-old hotel heiress was sent home shortly after 2 a.m. fitted with an electronic monitoring bracelet. She had spent five days at the Century Regional Detention Facility in suburban Los Angeles for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
“I can’t specifically talk about the medical situation other than to say that, yes, it played a part in this,” said sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore.
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Yesterday, a federal appeals court in Washington upheld a provision in a law signed by the president (the Military Commissions Act) that took away the rights of Guantanamo prisoners to challenge their detention before a court.
This really doesn’t change anything. In october 2006, the Military Commissions Act was approved by Congress, which denies habeas corpus to any non-citizen who is being detained by the U.S. So essentially we can keep these prisoners for as long as we want, possibly even without reason, and use “aggressive” interrogation methods (as long as we don’t refer to it as torture) until they squeal and give information that may or may not be accurate, seeing how they may be innocent after all.
This may get to the Supreme Court, and I’m willing to bet that the new Democratic congress will change the policy.
I just can’t help but feeling that if only one of those detainees is innocent, then Guantanamo is an atrocity. At least it is fo
You are trapped in the school detention room and you have to help Serin, Geo and Bravo get out. It won't be easy...The doors have been locked up and you are going to have to use ordinary objects from the school in creative ways to engineer your escape. Try to find objects by clicking on the furniture and various other places. Pay attention to the description of objects - they may contain clues.Click here to play
The Manhattan School for Children, an elite K-8 Upper East Side public school, is trying a new way to get students to arrive at school on time: give their parents detention. Parents who arrive after 8:25 must go to the office with their child ot pick up a late slip and then sit in the auditorium for 20 minutes before they are allowed to leave. Reactions from parents have been mixed:
Was I humiliated going to Mommy Detention? Absolutely. But will I be late again? No.
I think it stinks that we have to wait. I’m a freelancer. If I show up late, I lose my client. It’s a little too stressful.
Principal Susan Rappaport explains the reasoning for the new system, which parents were notified of over the summer:
You can’t hold children accountable for being late. The parents need to make the breakfast, get the children dressed and get them to school on time.
The incident has received worldwide coverage and could possibly be a model for other schools with chronic lateness pro
U.S. Court of Appeals Overrules Civilian CourtsGuantanamo Bay detainees may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling upholding a key provision of a law at the center of President Bush's anti- terrorism plan.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 that civilian courts no longer have the authority to consider whether the military is illegally holding foreigners.Barring detainees from the U.S. court system was a key provision in the Military Commissions Act, which Bush pushed through Congress last year to set up a system to prosecute terrorism suspects.The ruling is all but certain to be appealed to the Supreme Court, which last year struck down the Bush administration's original plan for trying detainees before military commissions.The Military Commissions Act was crafted in response to that decision and the president hailed it as a necessary tool for bringing terror suspects to justice.But the most
