Political Prisoners in the US
Monday, April 25th, 2011I think it is appropriate that the United States, in China about their deplorable human rights lecture. However, the opposite is the case, China, or any other nation, has every right and moral obligation of the press in the U.S. alone human rights violations. As we all know the last obvious abuses like Abu Ghraib, the global network of “black box” CIA prisons in which prisoners are tortured, illegally detained and sometimes executed, and the gulag in Guantanamo Bay, not much attention to the prisoners politicians in the United States.
Here are some examples of the most famous political prisoners in the U.S. and tips on applying for the contact to their release. Today is a good day would be to follow the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. and shake justice.
Bradley Manning
Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of providing Wikileaks documents with the U.S. government. E ‘was held in solitary confinement since July 2010. Prison conditions are appalling Manning: this is in a 6 foot by 12 foot cell 23 hours a day on which the exercise is not allowed. His glasses of it is taken out for a short time when he can read, and at night he is stripped of his boxer shorts. His mental health is said to have deteriorated. The Special Rapporteur on Torture has submitted a formal request to the U.S. State Department on the treatment of Manning.
“To be wrongly imprisoned, his military responsibilities.” Former Reagan administration Paul Roberts said Manning was Australian journalist John Pilger called Manning “the world’s prominent political prisoners.” For more information, visit the Bradley Manning network support. The link appears at the end of this article.
Leonard Peltier
American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier was known around the world in 1977 as a political prisoner of the United States after his imprisonment on charges of killing two FBI agents during a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Despite the strong evidence of his innocence and a trial widely seen as wrong, no president has ever dared to cross the FBI to pardon Peltier and freed him from his two consecutive life sentences.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an internationally renowned political activist and journalist program, which was condemned to death for killing a police officer in the United States in 1981. Abu-Jamal remains on death row despite evidence of his innocence, convinced that the observers will have killed around the world and despite the confession of another man, the officer. About 25 municipalities, including Paris, Copenhagen, Montreal and Palermo Abu-Jamal an honorary citizen, and he has won numerous awards, honorary doctorates awarded and also has a street in Paris, his name. Abu-Jamal is also the subject of many films. Through the legal battle over the decades, the execution of Abu-Jamal has been postponed, but the sentence has ended.
The Cuban Five
The Five are five Cuban intelligence service – Gerardo Hernndez, Ramna Labaino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzlez Gonzlez and Ren – who came to Miami, Florida to the anti-Cuban terrorists to inspect. It is a long history of terrorist attacks by individuals and organizations based in Miami, including the bombing of a Cuban civilian aircraft. Instead of arresting those suspected terrorists Cuban agents were arrested, kept in isolation for about a year and a half, are now to a prison sentence of up to twice life imprisonment sentences.
Eight Nobel Peace have written to ask for the release of five. Amnesty International has criticized the treatment as a violation of human rights and 110 members of the British Parliament signed a letter to the United States in support of the five.
These are some of the higher profile cases of political imprisonment in the United States. Here is a report by a Harvard law teacher of political prisoners in the United States:
The reality of political prisoners in the U.S.: What the 11th September has taught us to defend
The School of the Americas
Besides political activists trumped-up charges to arrest U.S. prisons contain intentionally political activists face. The media do not report these events vary, but each year, many Americans have been arrested during demonstrations against government policies. For example, thousands of activists, many of which are based faith, were swept into the mass arrests to protest School of the Americas. The School of the Americas (SOA) is fighting a well-known center of military education in the United States for Latin American soldiers at Fort Benning, Georgia. The graduates are leaders of the Central American death squads and paramilitary collusion that many atrocities, including massacres, rapes and torture committed. In the wake of the controversy, the U.S. has responded by the name of the school for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Studies cooperation. Each year the School of the Americas protesters go to testimony and a light to the SOA. Nonviolent demonstrators SOA have spent cumulatively more than 95 years in prison.