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...finds offensive, despite health risks to the woman, is already being used to justify additional abortion restrictions that deprive women of their equal rights and reproductive freedom. This year promises more of the same. Among other cases, the court will decide whether the Bush Administration can continue to imprison hundreds of detainees at Guantánamo Bay for years without any meaningful judicial review, whether voter-ID laws are constitutional and whether we can execute human beings using a lethal-injection protocol that we do not allow for our household pets. These are not small questions. The answers will help determine...
...Tibetan Buddhists faced greater repression in recent months, said the report, as authorities continued to detain and imprison Tibetans for peaceful expression and nonviolent action - at least 100 such cases were identified...
Next summer's Olympics will showcase a China of glittering skyscrapers and overstuffed store shelves. But the government responsible for this economic miracle continues to imprison political activists, restrict religious freedom, tightly control the media and Internet, and protect its citizens only haphazardly from pollution and unsafe food and consumer products, a congressional panel reported Friday...
...Human rights came in for the toughest criticism. Despite a 2005 pledge to "provide relief" for its political prisoners, Beijing continued to detain and imprison democracy activists as well as those attempting to organize workers in labor unions not approved by the government. Police routinely detain people for days without formal charge or more justification than to avoid protests or "social unrest," it said...
...Freedom Summer" of 1964, Fannie Lee Chaney moved out of the state to escape death threats. The murders of Chaney and two fellow civil rights workers inspired the movie Mississippi Burning --but led to no state murder indictments until 2005, when Fannie Lee's testimony helped convict and imprison Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen. Following a funeral service at the chapel that memorialized her son, Fannie Lee was buried next to James' grave in Meridian, Miss. She was 84. Since 1964, when Alvin--the deep-diving submarine that engineer Harold Froehlich designed--was launched, the vessel, the world's oldest...