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Madeleine S. Elfenbein is awaiting trial after an arrest at anti-globalization protests in Miami last week. “I was trapped like a pig for slaughter, herded into a van stinking of pepper spray, handcuffed in plastic,” she says nonchalantly, nonetheless managing to induce nonstop laughter with descriptions of her botched attempts to practice “jail solidarity,” or refusing to divulge one’s identity when arrested...
Since Yee's arrest in September, Guantanamo inmates have had no chaplain. Yee's replacement is to arrive this month--but will not be allowed any contact with the detainees. --By Johanna McGeary. Reported by Viveca Novak/Guantanamo, Eli Sanders/Seattle and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...busy time in the war on terror. German police last week announced the arrest of a 29-year-old Iraqi, identified only as Mohammed L. He is suspected of having dispatched a dozen locally recruited radicals from Germany to Iraq to carry out suicide attacks against U.S. troops; four men were arrested on similar charges in Italy and Germany the week before. Syria handed over 22 suspects sought by Turkey in connection with the November Istanbul terror blasts. French police rounded up four people accused of assisting an al-Qaeda operative last year as he passed through France...
...federal judge; paying for student groups to attend protests, even as participants, is a legitimate and important use of the IOP’s resources. Protest participation can provide an educational experience impossible to replicate the classroom or even as an impartial observer of the same protest. The arrest of the students is not a signal that the IOP needs to be more restrictive with its funding; rather, the IOP is doing exactly what it should, providing opportunities for first-hand learning that students might not have otherwise...
What Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow Tom Hayden cast as an academic sojourn to study protester culture in a memorandum to IOP Director Daniel R. Glickman was not what it seemed to be. Rather, the arrest of several of the student researchers for disobeying a police officer and criminal mischief at least casts doubt on whether they were merely distributing surveys to protesters—as Hayden had said was their mission—or protesting (and possibly committing illegal activities) themselves. Tellingly, Hayden has since indicated that the students may have engaged in the protest—something...