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It was obvious that the prisoners had been subject to psychological torture and extreme physical hardship.
The prisoners slept on wooden planks or iron bunks.
Our guide, Maya, explained that the authorities liked to put together prisoners who got on each other’s nerves.
Part of the GSPC abandoned armed tactics and made peace with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s regime, which promised reconciliation, the release of political prisoners, investigations of more than 10,000 disappearances, social reintegration, political rights, and, most important, civilian control of the armed forces.
It was, in fact, a record, although the average length of time spent on death row in the US is 15 years; in 2009, of 3173 death-row prisoners, 113 had been there for more than 29 years.
Reports point to the execution and mutilation of Syrian-government prisoners.
An organization like Hamas, which supports permanent war – and with which Israel negotiated for five years for the release of one abducted Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners – is exactly the enemy that Israel needs to justify its hardline stance.
Justice Delayed, but Not DeniedLONDON – Last week, the former dictator General Jorge Videla was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his role in Argentina’s “dirty war” of the 1970’s, including the torture and execution of unarmed prisoners.
Prisoners of PainPRINCETON – Last month, an Egyptian court sentenced Laura Plummer, a 33-year old English shop worker, to three years in prison for smuggling 320 doses of tramadol into the country.
Finally, many remain intellectual prisoners in the analytical framework of Marxism.
Prosecutors, civil and military judges, policemen, National Guard members, security agents, and others who have fabricated criminal charges, abused prisoners, and delayed or denied justice should be included as well.
The Assad regime is responsible for the highest number of civilian casualties by far, having carried out indiscriminate attacks in populated opposition-held areas, besieged entire populations, blocked the delivery of humanitarian aid, and tortured and executed prisoners.
Or were they brought by soldiers for incineration, as another version maintained, as part of a haul of “extremist literature” and prisoners’ personal communications, with Afghan workers alerting others at the base to the nature of the material?
The BBC collated testimony in 2010 from nine prisoners confirming that human-rights abuses continued at Bagram.
The prisoners independently described “a secret prison” inside the prison, called “the black hole.”
Prisoners were still being subjected at the time to freezing temperatures, sleep deprivation, and “other abuses.”
Obama should also apologize for kidnapping Afghans; for holding them at Bagram without due process of law; for forcing them into cages, each reportedly holding up to 30 prisoners; for denying them Red Cross/Red Crescent visits; for illegally confiscating family letters; for torturing and sexually abusing them; and for casting a pall of fear over the country.
Politicians who support torture never have to waterboard, starve, or physically abuse prisoners personally.
The status of the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay and the recent incidents of possibly systematic humiliation and torture of Iraqi prisoners cast doubt on the very values on which a liberal order is based.
For example, the recent release of political prisoners in Belarus removed at a stroke one of the key reasons for the EU’s hostility towards Lukashenko.
Of course, releasing political prisoners does not excuse Lukashenko’s past excesses.
"Internet dissidents" make up the fastest-growing group of political prisoners.
Venezuela’s incarnation of “socialism of the twenty-first century” includes more than 230 political prisoners.
The government has freed political prisoners, held elections (with more on the way), begun economic reform, and is intensively courting foreign investment.
Officials argued that no heavy artillery fire was ever directed at civilians or hospitals, that any collateral injury to civilians was minimal, and that they fully respected international law, including the proscription against execution of captured prisoners.
“Fidelio’s” most dramatic moment comes when political prisoners are briefly released from their dungeons.
As they sang of liberty, the setting sun’s rays dazzled the prisoners and the Oxfordshire audience.
Many suspect that some EU member states, while insisting on robust human-rights clauses in bilateral agreements with countries known to torture prisoners, secretly aided in the rendition of suspected terrorists to these same countries.
Protesters are also calling on the government to release political prisoners, uphold the current constitution, and establish a government of national unity to restore economic and political stability.
Although nowhere mentioned in either case, the scandalous treatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the revelations that high-level government lawyers prepared confidential memoranda authorizing torture, likely played a part in the Justices' reasoning.
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