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Sending troops to
protect dictators
threatens all of us
We may have known the
outline of the global US
kidnapping and torture
programme for a few years.
But even the heavily
censored summary of the
US senate torture report
turns the stomach in its
litany of criminal barbarity
unleashed by the CIA on
real and imagined US
enemies.
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Bahrain court
sentences prodemocracy activist
Zainab al-Khawaja to
16 months in jail
Pro-democracy activist
Zainab al-Khawaja has
been handed a 16 month
prison sentence by a court
in Bahrain after being found
guilty of insulting a
government employee and
damaging public property,
her lawyer said.
It follows a previous
conviction for insulting King
Hamad by tearing up his
photograph. She was
sentenced on December 4
to three years in jail and
fined 3,000 dinars ($7,960)
for that charge.
She was free on bail and
that sentence was
suspended pending an
appeal. However Tuesday's
verdict was effective
immediately.
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