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Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Guantanamo Bay. What can you do about this?

More than 80% of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were captured by Pakistan. They were handed over by Pakistan directly to the US authorities without following any due legal process. Many of the prisoners were stripped naked, fun made of their naked bodies, had their money taken and were tortured by Pakistani Intelligence agents, before being sent to Guantanamo Bay. What can you do about this?

Sunday, August 22, 2004

Hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners

Thousands of Palestinians began a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons demanding that Israeli prison authorities desist from practising sinister methods of humiliation and torture, including the recurrent beating of inmates, forced stripping, surprise midnight searches, extended solitary confinements which often last for months, as well as protracted handcuffing and leg-fettering.

"Let them starve to death" is the Israeli state's policy toward all Palestinians--those now in prison, and those yet to be put in prison.

Israeli officials call this nonviolent activism "terrorism".