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US DENIES 1000 CIVIL RIGHTS

Millennium Leia | 02.11.2001 20:19

Amnesty International is absent from a coalition of civil liberties groups demanding information from the US government about the identity and well-being of over 1000 people arrested under the new terrorist measures imposed after Septmber 11.


The American Civil Liberties Union, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Centre for Nationa. Security Studies, the Federation of American Scientists, Human Rights Watch and Nation magazine are calling for information about the 1087 people arrested.

Such actions make a mockery of speeches claiming to fight for freedom and people’s rights. This is the new world order according to Bush and Blair. It is not about protecting people's rights to have different views to live without the fear of losing their jobs, lose autonomy over the food that they eat and allow corrupt corporate organisations that launder and transfer invisible money to the cost of the planet and the poverty-stricken. This is about selling arms in a new world order that is as unstable as the cold war and it is about introducing oppression and striking fear in the hearts and minds of ordinary people seeking to survive in a world that is controlled and commanded by the undemocratic but New corporate fascists that make up the WTO, IMF and the World Bank.

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Violation of basic rights

02.11.2001 22:41

Many of these people have been held incommunicado without access to lawyers or their families. Identities of people detained are often not known, nor reasons for the arrests. According to Randy Hamud, representing 3 of the detained 'one of his clients had been roughed up in prison and all had been abused as "fucking terrorists" by prison guards. And these are represented. Kate Martin of the Centre for Security Studies in Washington says" The secret detention is quite close to the practice of 'disappearing people' in Latin America"
Those FEMA concentration camps are drawing closer
(Source the Guardian)

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