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...surveillance cameras at internet cafes to track down those who are trying to access objectionable content. What happens to those who get caught in this way is something of an unanswered question, but the preponderance of the evidence suggests some scary things—long jail times, perhaps without trial, and so on.What are we to do, if anything, to express our feelings on this matter? It’s a difficult question: a foreign government has taken a position that is at some level fundamentally at odds with a feature we see as essential for legitimate governance, in this...
...team, had sat calmly sipping a Seven-Up and explaining why he wasn't afraid of death. It was his faith, he said, that made it possible for him to risk his life to do his job: ensuring that even members of Saddam's brutal regime got a fair trial. Despite the danger of assassination-a second member of the defense team was killed last month-he put his fate in the hands of God. "I believe now we are sitting together," he told TIME in the cafeteria of the Iraqi Bar Association on Monday, "but tomorrow maybe we cannot...
...Both men had spent two hours talking to TIME on Monday, explaining their reasons for joining the team of lawyers representing eight members of the former regime in the trial over the 1982 Dujail executions. (The two were representing Saddam's brother, Barzan al Tikriti, and the former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan.) The shooting comes just over two weeks after a fellow defense attorney, Sadoon al Janabi, was kidnapped and assassinated following the first televised broadcast of Saddam's trial...
...temples and wire-rimmed glasses that bent forward off his nose, had a history as a Shiite radical-he had spent over 14 months in prison during the '60s and '70s for membership of a religious opposition group. But al-Zubeidi's appearance in the October 19 trial could have lead to his being singled out for assassination. According to his own account, when he introduced himself to Saddam, al-Zubeidi said that despite the fact that he was a Shiite from Babylon, he was still defending him. That's when Saddam replied with his signature phrase, "Afia," or "Well...
...Bush might pardon the Vice President's former chief of staff if he is convicted of perjury, obstruction of justice or other charges. Republicans involved in the case say the scenario most conducive to a pardon would be a guilty plea by Libby to head off a messy trial in which Dick Cheney's testimony might be sought...