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...RELEASED. 3,937 prisoners, including student leader MIN KO NAING, 42 (pictured after his release from Sittwe prison), and at least two dozen members of Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy; from jails around the country; in Burma. Reasons for the mass release remain unclear; the move follows last month's purge of Prime Minister Khin Nyunt by the junta, and state media have reported that the prisoners had been "inappropriately" jailed by the former PM's intelligence apparatus. Min Ko Naing, a leader of 1988's student democracy protests, had been...
...penalty for smoking pot in Alabama is up to 99 years in prison. But that hasn't stopped the Cotton State--along with Mississippi and Georgia--from siding with California in its battle to keep medical marijuana legal. All three filed briefs supporting Left Coast medipot users before the U.S. Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on Nov. 29 on whether patients can cultivate and possess physician-prescribed cannabis. "We happen to believe California's medical-marijuana policy is misguided," says Alabama solicitor general Kevin Newsom. "But this isn't about the drug war. It's about states' rights...
Abbas and Qurei hold the loyalty of the secular Old Guard, but they are nearing their 70s. A younger generation is clamoring for power, including reformers who want a more open, honest government and militants who earned their spurs fighting Israel. Though locked up in an Israeli prison, Marwan Barghouti, 44, leader of Fatah in the West Bank, is the most popular figure there after Arafat. His word from the cell block could help or hurt new leaders. Another rising star, Mohammed Dahlan, 43, former head of preventive security in Gaza, has street cred, the loyalty of members...
...verdict was announced. The Peterson case helped inspire the passage earlier this year of a federal law making it a separate crime to harm a fetus during an attack on a pregnant woman. Peterson, whose high-flying legal team will probably appeal the decision, faces either life in prison or death by lethal injection...
Gonzales later requested a legal opinion from a Justice Department agency that ultimately argued that subjecting suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in captivity to extreme stress "may be justified." When abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison came to light last spring, some Administration critics cited that memo as the legal backbone for the harsher treatment of prisoners, which is now the subject of court-martial proceedings...