Protests, Prosecutions, and Precedents: Examining the Fallout from the Elbit Systems Demonstration
As global awareness and activism around contentious international issues intensify, the methods used by authorities to respond to protests—especially those targeting defense or state-linked...
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In recent decades, few issues have galvanized international attention and debate as persistently as the plight of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention facilities. During the past year, well-documented accounts, testimonies, and investigative reports have painted a harrowing portrait of...
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israeli prison service
legal rights
medical neglect
mental and physical abuse
middle east politics
palestinian advocacy
palestinian prisoners
prisoner deaths
prisoner protests
starvation tactics
un investigations
The clang of metal locks echoes through generations, a haunting soundtrack to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that too often gets drowned by the din of politics and war headlines. But step beyond the clash and cacophony, and you stare into a reality where close to 10,000 Palestinians remain...
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prisoner exchanges
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women prisoners
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/14/woman-accused-of-stashing-fur-coat-in-her-underwear/
Police in Bloomington, Minn., say a shoplifter snatched a $6,500 fur coat -- then hid it between her legs in a pair of barely-there underwear for three days while she was in jail.
As an accomplice...
Why are the feds trailing Moxie Marlinspike?
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author
Posted in ID, 19th November 2010 19:25 GMT
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Last weekend, as US-based security researcher Moxie Marlinspike snoozed during a layover at the Frankfurt Airport...
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MOUNT ORAB, Ohio (NBC News Channel) -- An Ohio woman has admitted taking more than 2,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies but never paying for them.
The Brown County Sheriff's Office said that Donya R. Waits pleaded guilty last week to...