Word: jails
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...even slums are targeted when polling day approaches. Baiano has taken no money for his electioneering, and explains "this man isn't the best candidate, but I owe him a favor." It's dangerous to default in Brazil's largest city - and in its prisons. Drauzio Varella, a jail doctor, regularly examined the corpses of inmates stabbed for failing to repay debts. In 1995, a body was brought for his inspection. "He was lying face upward," says Drauzio Varella, "and when I turned him over, his head dangled. He had been almost decapitated. The guard told me this...
When Chávez went to jail in 1992 for attempting to overthrow the government, the joke on the streets was that he deserved 30 years: one for the coup and 29 for failing. The incident won him admiration among ordinary Venezuelans, who backed Chávez for taking a stand against their criminally corrupt élite, who for decades had pillaged the oil wealth and left half the population in poverty. That popular support got him and his comrades released, and Chávez set out to take power at the ballot box instead. In 1998 he won a landslide presidential victory...
...lawyer told me he was trying to get the case dismissed but that the district attorney was being aggressive and trying to put me in jail and hold me responsible for what Steven did,†he said. “The district attorney thinks I should pay for the consequences...
...dreamed that the Internet might make it impossible for repressive governments to control information and stifle dissent. But while the Internet has given dissidents more ways to communicate with some privacy, authoritarian regimes have still found ways to censor websites, to monitor e-mail and to track down and jail online offenders. Still, in this game of electronic cat and mouse, the methods for evading roadblocks are evolving, and in Vietnam pro-democracy activists have hit upon a useful tool: Internet telephony, or Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP...
...live debates, and post recorded voice messages via online forums available on the websites of VoIP providers such as PalTalk, Yahoo! Messenger and Skype. "Skype is like a miracle," says Tran Khue, a 70-year-old Vietnamese dissident in Ho Chi Minh City. Khue, who recently got out of jail after serving 19 months for "abusing democratic rights," says he regularly conducts VoIP democracy forums and uses Skype to call sympathizers inside and outside Vietnam...