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...Thirty-two of the men died when troops besieged a mosque where they had taken refuge. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra rejected demands for an investigation into the killings. Free, But Not Freed COLOMBIA Three alleged IRA members acquitted on charges of training antigovernment rebels in bombmaking refused to leave prison until they received safety assurances, fearing reprisals from right-wing paramilitaries. The Irish government said it would pay fines totaling $19,500 imposed on the men for the lesser charge of traveling on false passports. The men may have to stay in Colombia if the government appeals their acquittals...
Yesterday, Supreme Court justices heard arguments in the cases of Jose Padilla and Yaser Hamdi, U.S. citizens who have been detained in a South Carolina prison without counsel or formal criminal charges for two years. While Hamdi was captured by the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, Padilla was arrested on American soil. And though Padilla has been accused of trying to build a “dirty” bomb, the government’s inability to dredge up enough evidence to actually charge the man shows just how arbitrary his detention has been...
...anti-occupation nationalism among Iraqis - a CNN/USA Today poll released Thursday found that almost two thirds of Iraqis now want U.S. troops to leave immediately - and further military action would inevitably deepen their alienation from the Coalition. Photographs published this week of captives being tortured in a U.S.-run prison outside of Baghdad certainly won't help the hearts and minds effort...
...Aboriginal man in a nation where indigenous people and the justice system have long had an unhappy relationship. Aborigines, or Kooris as they're called in Victoria, are the most over-represented racial group in the state's jails: 12 times more likely than other Victorians to be in prison. But Toby has just come out of Courtroom Four in the outer-Melbourne Broadmeadows Magistrates Court, where a radical new approach to curbing indigenous crime is under way. Here, every two weeks conventional hearings are replaced by the Koori Court, which brings the law and indigenous people together...
...Islamic regime. That sparked a long battle against Iran's clerics for women's equality and rights for children, workers, artists and others. Though Ebadi is careful to push for change within the law, that has not kept her out of trouble. In 2000 she spent 23 days in prison, and she has received regular death threats...