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Meanwhile, outside the convention, the climate of fear across Burma has intensified. Last week, several NLD members were taken into custody for handing out pamphlets marking the one-year anniversary of Suu Kyi's current house arrest. This follows the detentions of a number of activists, including a Burmese reporter...
"The hatred they sow among the victims, nations and people will come back to haunt us." ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI, Prime Minister of Malaysia, warning of repercussions from abuse in U.S. military prisons
But Howard Simon, the A.C.L.U.'S Florida executive director, argues that it is important to draw a line between prisons that make chaplains available to inmates and prisons that make faith their core corrections criterion. "We're glad the Governor wants to improve Florida's brutal prison conditions," says Simon...
Perhaps TV cameras should be mandatory at military prisons and detention centers around the world. Everyone ought to be able to see what goes on in all the places where people are being held against their will. MANJULA PADMANABHAN New Delhi
The U.S. military has taken heat lately for holding and in some cases abusing innocent civilians in its prisons abroad. But at least one Guantanamo detainee, Taliban commander Mullah Shahzada, has proved anything but harmless. Soon after he was released last July--military officials believed there was no cause to...