Detainee is cameraman for Al-Jazeera 17 Mar 2008 The United States has censored a gruesome drawing by a Guantanamo Bay prisoner [Sami al-Haj] depicting him as a skeleton being force-fed at the military prison, the man’s lawyers said Monday as they released a recreation of the sketch. (Original link here.)
United States censors Guantanamo prisoner’s sketch of force-feeding
March 17th, 2008 — War on Terror, Denounce Torture, Social Justice
Grijalva wants to block uranium mining at Grand Canyon
March 17th, 2008 — Human Rights, AZ Politics
Rep. Raul Grijalva today announced his introduction of the Grand Canyon Watersheds Protection Act of 2008, legislation prohibiting new uranium mining across 1 million acres of public lands in watersheds surrounding Grand Canyon National Park (original link here.)
Amnesty International Decries Ruling in Troy Davis Case
March 17th, 2008 — Human Rights, Death Penalty, Amnesty International
GA Supreme Court Decision is ‘Simply Stunning;’ U.S. ‘Has Shrugged
Off the Very Notion of Justice at Every Level’ in Davis Case
Amnesty International USA decried today’s Georgia Supreme Court decision to deny a new trial for Troy Anthony Davis, who has been on death row for more than 16 years despite significant concerns regarding his innocence. The human rights organization, which has collected more than 60,000 petition signatures while campaigning for Davis, said the ruling demonstrates a blatant disregard for justice, and asserted that the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles must grant clemency in his case.
