Palestinian Detainees In Israeli Prisons Continue To Be Abused By Interrogators

Israeli forces use extreme and brutal methods to force confessions out of Palestinian detainees for “crimes against Israel” such as stone-throwing.

IMEMC News
By IMEMC News
An Israeli border policeman detains a Palestinian protester during a weekly demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.

An Israeli border policeman detains a Palestinian protester during a weekly demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. The head of the Palestinian Authority prisoners' affairs committee, Issa Qarage, met with former detainee Noor Muhammad Hilmi Hamamrah, age 15,

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Nevada Prison Guards Under Fire For Killing Handcuffed Prisoner, Discharging Guns Over 200 Times In 5 Years

“The shooting of a handcuffed inmate obviously raises red flags,” said Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, who said he’s troubled by accounts of previously unreported prison shootings.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
High Desert State Prison

High Desert State Prison in Nevada. Lawsuits and data point to multiple cases of guards firing shotguns at inmates at a Nevada state prison where a handcuffed prisoner was killed by a corrections officer trainee last November. Federal lawsuits have been filed in Las Vegas by at least three of six inmates who say they were wounded by

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Domestic Workers in Lebanon Establish Unprecedented Labor Union

Despite serious threats to their safety, over 200 domestic laborers in Lebanon gathered to form the first migrant workers’ trade union in the Arab world.

Al Akhbar
By Al Akhbar

A historic event in the struggle of male and female workers in Lebanon happened on January 25. The founding conference aimed at establishing a “new” type of union, the domestic workers union, was held. In the past few days, the Ministry of Labor tried to prevent the holding of the conference. It threatened to use the Internal Security Forces to

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I Remember Mama: One Man And Boy’s Odyssey Through Abuse

Data clearly and consistently show that mothers abuse their children more frequently than fathers. Yet we seem generally unconcerned about maternal abuse, often telling the male victims who have been hurt by their mothers to “suck it up” and “take it like a man.”

Edward Rhymes
By Edward Rhymes
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Born in the 1960s to a 14-year-old mother, I am one of those individuals who came into the world at a time when the word “Negro” was still being placed on birth certificates. Without the requisite skills or resources to care for her child, the tiny bundle with asthma, I was placed in a foster home and there I stayed for the first six years of my

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Quebec Police Run Over Cyclist For Minor Infraction, Then Handcuffed Him As He Dies

“He went under the wheels,” said Bibi, who would only give her first name. She said the cruiser then shifted into drive and ran Blouin over a second time.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
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From The Toronto Sun: QUEBEC CITY — Quebec police are investigating witness claims that Quebec City police pinned a cyclist to the ground and continued with their arrest, even as blood poured from his mouth after their cruiser ran him over. Guy Blouin, 48, died Wednesday in the hardscrabble Saint-Roch district of the provincial

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Sri Lanka Fights Against UN Civil War Inquiry

GENEVA (AP) — Sri Lanka on Wednesday rejected a U.S.-led call for accountability after the U.N.’s top human rights official recommended an international criminal investigation of abuses from the island nation’s civil war that ended in 2009. U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay has recommended that the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council authorize an “independent international inquiry” […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) — Sri Lanka on Wednesday rejected a U.S.-led call for accountability after the U.N.'s top human rights official recommended an international criminal investigation of abuses from the island nation's civil war that ended in 2009. U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay has recommended that the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council authorize an

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