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After having spent 19 years in various prisons and detention camps for publishing materials critical of the communist regime in Vietnam, Doan now lives in Washington, where he works to organize Vietnamese immigrants around the world to promote democracy in their homeland.
Reid was not born to Islam; he is a convert with a convert's zeal. His grandfather was a Jamaican immigrant to Britain, and his father Colvin Robin Reid met and married Lesley Hughes, a white woman who was the daughter of an accountant and magistrate. Richard was born in...
It was long assumed that the growth of Islam in Britain was simply a function of immigration. But that underestimates the religion's appeal. Since the early 1980s, Bangladeshi and Pakistani imams, often associated with evangelist Islamic groups, have targeted young black inmates of British prisons. "Islam is a sort...
That decision foreshadowed a series of violent, related incidents, including the security forces' quashing of protests throughout the prison system and the forcible transfer of inmates to the new "F-type" facilities. In the worst clashes, in December 2000, 30 prisoners and two guards were killed. In other incidents, two...
But what will the deaths of Cengiz Soydas and his - so far - 44 Turkish comrades come to mean? Soydas died last March, on the 150th day of a prison "death fast" begun in October 2000. A 29-year-old university student who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison...