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...Mohnhaupt and Klar were arrested in 1982 and convicted respectively on 18 and 20 counts of murder and attempted murder; both were sentenced to life in prison in 1985. While German lifers, on average, become eligible for parole after 17 years, the judge ordered Mohnhaupt and Klar to serve at least 24 and 26 years respectively, in light of their "particularly heavy guilt." Mohnhaupt may be paroled next month, and her prison warden said her psychological assessment showed no risk of "backsliding." Klar is not eligible for parole until 2009, but he has appealed for early release. "Of course...
...sealed indictment against Noorzai 3 1/2 months earlier and that he was now under arrest for conspiring to smuggle narcotics into the U.S. from Afghanistan. An awkward silence ensued as the words were translated into his native Pashtu. "I did not believe it," Noorzai later told TIME from his prison cell. "I thought they were joking." The previous August, an American agent he had met with said the trip to the U.S. would be "like a vacation...
...Americans, believing him to be the sort of "moderate" that Washington was seeking to work with. Noorzai says, however, that this would lead to his first betrayal by the Americans. Instead of incorporating his friend into the Afghan government, the Americans took Muttawakil to the U.S.-run prison at Guantánamo Bay. He would not be freed for 21 months. Noorzai was furious...
...my trial," Noorzai says in detention in New York City. He will have a lawyer with an imposing 6-ft. 5-in. frame and a high-profile list of legal contests, if not victories. Ivan Fisher made his name defending Jack Henry Abbott, a convicted killer whose gritty prison memoir, In the Belly of the Beast, was famously championed by Norman Mailer. Fisher is no stranger to bad guys. In the 1990s, Fisher defended Haji Ayub Afridi, a man widely believed to be one of Pakistan's major narcotraffickers, as well as someone who was thought to have worked closely...
...This is not just about Abu Ghraib,” Rory E. K. Kennedy said. “It’s about America and who we are as a country.” In the HBO documentary, Kennedy juxtaposes personal interviews with six Iraqi detainees and various prison guards who have served time for abuse. “What we heard consistently was that [the prison guards] were bad apples...and not part of something systemic,” she told The Crimson. “What I found was quite the opposite.” She conceived...