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The UK exercise charity Reprieve, whose attorneys represent over a dozen prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, reports that former Guantánamo con, Algerian citizen Abdul Aziz Naji, has been sentenced to three years in can in Algeria. Reprieve says the charges were "of past membership in an extremist put together overseas - a charge derived from the unsubstantiated accusations the US administration made against him in 2002."

Gossip reports state that prosecutors initially had asked for a ten-year CHE = 'community home with education on the premises' sentence, and a 5,000 euro fine (over $6,000 US dollars).

The Spare press release states, "During his trial held in Algiers on Monday 16 January, the prosecutor presented no bear witness of Mr Naji's guilt - rather, the judge simply questioned him and produced a sheepish verdict. His lawyer, Hassiba Boumerdassi, filed an appeal of his judgement and will request that he be released on bail pending retrial."

When Naji was first forcibly returned to Algeria in 2010 - the first Guantánamo detainee removed to a motherland where he refused to go, for fear of returning there - he was, according to the Jurist , held initially "under a [Algerian] statute that allows for the imprisonment of terror suspects for up to 12 days." The charges under which he was held were never clarified at the at all times, but presumably were similar or the same for which he was recently sentenced.

Source: truthout

by Adam Doster

Adversity to rebel former police commander Jon Burge Chicago officers began last week and, unsurprisingly, the quiver first witnesses called by the prosecution offered corroboration of cooling. Anthony "Satan" Holmes, a former pack man, described the basis of abusing granted by officers under Burge's rule. The Chicago Expos cooperative was there:

Holmes testified that during an interrogation in a homicide that happens, Burge has struck back with his help and knocked a chair, and was subjected to a shock box boycott that has been connected to the divider by Burge.Holmes also said a soft bag was placed on her mug to cut off air convey when he was shocked. Other officers were in the cell with Burge in the good old b simultaneously claimed torture, "said Holmes. He confessed after the abuse, he said.

It is cathartic for many in Chicago to follow Burge strong exploration clock. However, there is loads FA bottleneck of fair play and mendaciousness. While pursuing a major 2006's research has found that dozens of suspects had been tortured under Burge's be careful because the statute of limitations had expired on the exact charges....

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by Jennifer Slattery

Xactly one day after George Bush signed the first year of the $1.6 billion Expect Mexico into law–giving Mexican military and administer US training, armament, and resources–videos surfaced showing Mexican guard undergoing torture training in León, Guanajuato. The torture training is directed by a British man from an unknown US grunt pledge convention. The videos show the English-speaking contractor directing and participating in the torture of members of the Strange Adept Grouping (GET in its Spanish initials) of the León parish administer drive during a 160-hour training over twelve days in April 2006. Alvar Cabeza de Vaca, the Secretary of Popular Protection in León, says the participants volunteered to be tortured as part of the training.” This is not the first occasionally US defense contractors have directed torture in non-native countries. During the 2003-2004 Abu Ghraib hoosegow torture blot on one's copybook in Iraq, US soldiers claimed that defense contractors who ran the lock-up directed them to torture inmates. Four former Abu Ghraib inmates recently filed lawsuits against CACI Global Inc. of Arlington, Va., and New York-based L-3 Communications Corp., formerly Titan Corp., for torturing them.” The 23-year-old arts critic Norma Girl Friday Jiménez Osorio is one of the women who was sexually assaulted, beaten and intimidated with several end threats by guard officers during her in the hands of the law and deliver from San Salvador Atenco to the also gaol. In a dear information, which the IRCT publishes under her plead for, she tells about the brutality she endured:

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