3 month ago
adamrg : Amnesty International launches advert protesting against waterboarding - Unsubscribe me as well.
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5 month ago
nelson : McCain for torture, too - Ridiculous hair splitting on a core human rights issue
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5 month ago
nelson : Bush endorses torture - Refuses to sign a bill outlawing torture
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5 month ago
nelson : Golden shield project - How the Great Firewall of China works, both technically and socially
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6 month ago
nelson : Camp 7, Gitmo - Our secretive prison camp has an even more secretive sub-prison camp
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8 month ago
nelson : Pelosi was OK with torture - 2002 briefing of Democrat leaders
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9 month ago
nelson : Torture 2.0 - A web how-to for waterboarding. Maybe Mukasey would like to read up?
deusx : waterboarding.org | “Torture is abhorrent, both to American law and values, and to international norms.” —US DOJ 1/27/05 - "Using unclassified sources, news reports, and historical records we are attempting to put together as clear a picture as possible of this technique, its history, its legality, and the scope of its use."
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9 month ago
nelson : Waterboarding is torture - Insane we even have to debate this, but here's an expert
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10 month ago
nelson : The US doesn't torture - How do we know? Because Supreme Court refuses to hear the cases
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10 month ago
nelson : New US torture policy - When do the war crimes investigations start?
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33 month ago
plasticbag : 'Tom! The token gay friend!' is best thing I've seen recently about our new status as happy nice desexualised and funny little pet people who don't have anything to worry about... - "As we learn from Tom, talking to friends and family about equality isn't always easy. In fact, it can be an adventure."
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38 month ago
plasticbag : Webloggers are proposing a media fast for Mojtaba Saminejad, who has been arrested for reporting the incarceration of other Iranian webloggers - "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression... to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers" - Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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43 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : US has officially lost the moral high ground - Seeing your country's name up next to the phrase "erodes human rights" isn't a good thing.
deusx : BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US 'erodes' global human rights - "A leading human rights group has criticised the US over the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal and the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay"
plasticbag : Human Rights Watch takes US to task for damaging the worldwide fight for human rights - "Governments facing human rights pressure from the United States now find it easy to turn the tables," said Mr Roth. "Washington can't very well uphold principles that it violates itself."
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