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Free Barrett Brown – 321 Days In Detention Pending Trial

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“Having previously been raided by the FBI on March 6, 2012 and not charged with any crime in relation to that incident, on September 12, 2012 Barrett Brown was again raided and this time arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation while he was online participating in a Tinychat session. He was subsequently denied bail and detained without charge and adequate medical treatment for over two weeks while in the custody of US Marshals.  On December 4, 2012 Barrett was indicted by a federal grand jury on twelve additional counts related to data from the Stratfor breach. He faces these charges simply for allegedly pasting a hyperlink online.”

http://freebarrettbrown.org/about/

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Statement by Julian Assange on Verdict in Bradley Manning Court-Martial

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“Today Bradley Manning, a whistleblower, was convicted by a military court at Fort Meade of 19 offences for supplying the press with information, including five counts of ’espionage’. He now faces a maximum sentence of 136 years. The ’aiding the enemy’ charge has fallen away. It was only included, it seems, to make calling journalism ’espionage’ seem reasonable. It is not. Bradley Manning’s alleged disclosures have exposed war crimes, sparked revolutions, and induced democratic reform. He is the quintessential whistleblower. This is the first ever espionage conviction against a whistleblower. It is a dangerous precedent.”

http://wikileaks.org/Statement-by-Julian-Assange-on.html

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DEA agrees to pay $4.1 milllion to student they locked in a cell for days

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“A San Diego, California college student was awarded $4.1 million in a settlement with the federal government on Tuesday, ending his lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for leaving him in a holding cell for five days with no food or water in April 2012. KNSD-TV reported that no criminal charges will be brought against the officers involved in the incident, which began when the victim, 24-year-old Daniel Chong, was taken to a DEA office following a raid by a task force made up of DEA, state and local officers on a ‘420’ party Chong attended.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/30/dea-agrees-to-pay-4-1-milllion-to-student-they-locked-in-a-cell-for-days/

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Edward Snowden’s father: ‘Absolutely no faith’ son would get fair trial in U.S.

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“Lon Snowden, the father of National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden, on Monday revealed that he and his legal team had attempted to work with the U.S. Department of Justice to find a way for his son to come home, but talks had broken down. ‘[W]e’ve attempted to work with the Justice Department and both the people investigating this, and I just do not believe that that collaboration, that the good faith exists anymore,’ he explained. ‘So I’m very very disappointed and we’ve attempted to get assurances that Ed would receive a fair trial. I have absolutely no faith in Eric Holder, the Attorney General of the United States. None.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/30/edward-snowdens-father-absolutely-no-faith-son-would-get-fair-trial-in-u-s/

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Bradley Manning found not guilty of aiding the enemy, but guilty of theft and espionage

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“Army Private First Class Bradley Manning was found not guilty on Tuesday morning on charges of knowingly aiding enemies of the U.S. by transferring 750,000 pages of military files to WikiLeaks, the Associated Press reported.  Manning was tried on 20 other criminal counts, and offered to plead guilty to most of them, but refused to say he helped the terrorist network al-Qaeda. The Guardian reported that Manning was found guilty on five counts of theft and five counts of espionage.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/30/bradley-manning-found-not-guilty-of-aiding-the-enemy/

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Judge fires 34-year court employee for providing document that helped free innocent man

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“A longtime judge’s assistant in Jackson County says she was fired for providing a public document that helped a wrongfully convicted inmate win his freedom. But court officials say 70-year-old Sharon Snyder was sent packing four weeks ago because she violated court rules against inappropriately providing advice and discussing court matters with outsiders. Snyder says she gave Robert Nelson’s sister a copy of a motion last year from a different case in which a defendant successfully requested DNA testing. Nelson was freed June 12 after DNA tests ruled him out as one of the rapists in the 1983 attack.”

http://www.ky3.com/news/sns-ap-mo–judges-assistant-firing-20130728,0,3766719.story

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Abuse at Ecuadorian ‘gay conversion’ drug rehabs shocks authorities

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“The country of 15.8 million people has at least 80 unlicensed drug and alcohol rehab clinics, many that are also used for anti-gay conversion therapy, Health Minister Carina Vance, who is openly gay, said. Two people died last year at the clandestine centers, she told foreign reporters. Authorities say the inhumane practice is a wide-ranging problem that has ensnared even government officials — such as the health ministry official who was recently the subject of a criminal complaint after it emerged she owned a clandestine clinic offering therapy against homosexuality.  Ecuadoran law authorizes forced treatment for addicts with approval from a judge.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/27/abuse-at-ecuadorian-gay-conversion-facilities-shocks-authorities/

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Refugees detail widespread abuse at Australian asylum camp

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“Australian Immigration Minister Tony Burke described as ‘horrific’ explosive claims that asylum-seekers at one of its processing camps in Papua New Guinea are being raped and tortured. A former senior official at the Manus Island facility also detailed ‘almost daily’ self-harm and attempted suicides while warning weapons were being accumulated in readiness for a break-out attempt. The allegations come just days after Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that the facility would be massively expanded to accommodate 3,000 people, from the original 600, as part of a new hardline plan to send all asylum-seeker arrivals to Papua New Guinea.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/24/refugees-detail-widespread-abuse-at-australian-asylum-camp/

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A Nation of Rules: The US Justice System

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“Edward Lamar Young knew he should not be committing crimes of burglary, especially after he already had served time in Tennessee prison more than 15 years earlier for the same thing. He had promised to ‘go straight’ after his 1996 release and had done so until 2011, when he ‘fell off the wagon’ and stole some items from cars and a business warehouse. However, he sits in federal prison for 15 years and never was prosecuted for burglary. Why? He had some shotgun shells in his possession (he did not have a shotgun in which to use them) and according to federal law, a person with any criminal conviction cannot own either firearms or ammunition.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/07/william-l-anderson/the-us-justice-system/

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Snowden’s father criticizes Congress, Obama over spy programs

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“Lonnie Snowden, in an interview with NBC’s ‘Today’ show, said lawmakers were ‘complicit or negligent’ in allowing the National Security Agency’s massive electronic surveillance program to continue. ‘I am extremely disappointed and angry,’ he said. ‘The American people – at this point, they don’t know the full truth, but the truth is coming.’ Lonnie Snowden told NBC he was confident in his son’s actions. ‘I believe that my son, when he takes his final breath whether it’s today or 100 years from now, he will be comfortable with what he did because he did what he knew was right.'”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-usa-security-snowden-idUSBRE96P0RF20130726

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