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...State Department said this week it is investigating reports that Kennedy School of Government graduate and pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli has been physically abused in the Beijing prison where he has been held for almost two years...
...handcuffs were not removed until Yang’s hands were bloody and infected, Fu said. Mo Shaoping, Yang’s lawyer, said his client’s hands were still bruised and swollen when he visited him in prison last week...
...focus on several issues: assessing Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s claim that affirmative action will no longer be needed in 25 years, evaluating the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which is up for reauthorization in 2007, combating wrongful criminal convictions and facilitating the assimilation of prison inmates back into society...
...junta promises to reconvene next month a national convention on a new constitution. Yet the arrest, surveillance and intimidation of opposition figures continues, Amnesty International notes in a March 31 report, while as many as 1,400 political prisoners?many of whom should by rights participate in the convention?still languish in prison. Ambiguous public remarks by Burmese Foreign Minister Win Aung, followed by the release from house arrest of two senior NLD leaders last week, have raised hopes that Suu Kyi and party vice chairman Tin Oo will soon be freed, too. We'll see. The convention's success...
WITHDRAWN. A guilty plea to a felony tax charge, by LEA FASTOW, whose spouse will spend 10 years in prison for his role in the Enron megafraud; in Houston. Fastow reneged after a judge said he would not abide by a plea bargain that called for her to spend only five months in jail, a deal designed to ensure that their children would have at least one parent at home. Her trial is scheduled for June...