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...take long for religion to become an issue in the campaign. In the spring of 2004, a handful of conservative Catholic bishops began to insist that Kerry, a Roman Catholic, should be denied Communion because of his support for abortion rights. A media frenzy - quickly dubbed the "Wafer Watch" - soon metastasized, with journalists following Kerry to Mass each Sunday and doing everything but checking his molars for evidence that he had indeed been given Communion...
...Kerry campaign's radar screen. In the fall, a Democratic activist and Catholic in Columbus, Ohio, named Eric McFadden approached the campaign about canvassing heavily Catholic counties in Ohio. Democratic volunteers in those areas had been barraged with questions from voters who had been following the Wafer Watch, and they were desperate for materials that could provide a fuller picture of Kerry's Catholicism. McFadden wanted to deliver flyers that highlighted Kerry's faith and the drop in abortion rates during the 1990s. He approached one of the campaign's Ohio field directors for permission, explaining that he wanted...
...based Human Rights charges that the Caretaker Government has trampled over basic human rights to achieve its goals. The report, which focuses on the testimony of Tasneem Khalil, a prominent journalist for the English-language Daily Star newspaper and for CNN and a part-time consultant to Human Rights Watch, paints a depressing picture of abuse at the hands of Bangladesh's military intelligence agency. Khalil, who had been writing about the security forces' alleged role in extra-judicial killings, torture and arbitrary arrests, was picked up by the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) in May, 2007. According...
...Human Rights Watch says that tens of thousands of people have been arbitrarily detained and abused by security forces over the past 13 months - most of them without the connections Khalil had to help set him free. "Rampant illegal detention and torture are clear evidence of Bangladesh's security forces running amok," said Brad Adams, Asia director of Human Rights Watch, in launching the report. "Tasneem Khalil's prominence as a critical journalist may have prompted his arrest, but it also may have saved his life. Ordinary Bangladeshis held by the security forces under the emergency rules have no such...
...Human Rights Watch says the government is undermining its reformist agenda by resorting to heavyhanded tactics of past regimes. "In its popular public campaign against corruption and abuse of political power, the government has routinely used torture to extract confessions or to gain information," the report says. "Torture has also been used to punish and intimidate peaceful critics of the government and army's role as the de facto rulers of the country." TIME could not reach the government spokesman for a comment, but officials have in the past downplayed allegations of abuse and said that anyone found guilty...