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...bloody as prison uprisings have been in the U.S., they are often far more violent abroad. Indeed, the full worldwide toll of prison violence is likely unknowable, considering the restrictions on press freedom under many of the world's more repressive regimes. One of the deadliest episodes in recent decades took place in 1992 in São Paulo, Brazil, where 111 prisoners were killed as authorities sought to put down an uprising. Human-rights groups accused corrections officers of shooting inmates indiscriminately, even those who had surrendered. A Brazilian police colonel was sentenced to 600 years in prison...
...according to one witness, some have kicked the canisters back at the riot police. Now the Basij go at the demonstrators with chains, whips, Tasers and metal pipes. One protester said she has seen them use paintball guns to tag protest leaders for later arrest. At a recent press conference, the prosecutor general of the ongoing mass trials said that on average 100 people - many assumed to be protesters - have been arrested per day since June...
...about, in honor of the American soldier, you quit makin' things up?' SARAH PALIN, former Alaska governor, advising members of the press on how to treat her successor...
...some attribute even this modern move away from the “family as necessitated for economic stability” mantra to the timeless strain in extended family relations as a whole. The Ambani’s are perhaps not unique in their recent disputes, but only in their press coverage...
...Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele being Facebook friends with Taitz: "The chairman has thousands of Facebook friends - obviously he is not going to agree with the agendas of all of them." - RNC press secretary Gail Gitcho (Politico, July...