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Al Jazeera uncovers evidence that influential Americans tried to help the now-deposed Libyan leader cling to power.
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New York, August 31, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to immediately release journalist Maikel Nabil Sanad, who was tried in military court for “insulting the military” and is now serving a three-year sentence in prison.
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NEW YORK (AP) – Working with the CIA, the New York Police Department maintained a list of “ancestries of interest” and dispatched undercover officers to monitor Muslim businesses and social groups, according to new documents that offer a rare glimpse inside an intelligence program the NYPD insists doesn’t exist.
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The GuardianAi Weiwei attacks China over justice and human rightsThe GuardianUnder the conditions of Ai’s release, he is not allowed to be interviewed by journalists, meet foreigners, use the internet or interact with human rights advocates for a…
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When a US resident used the Internet to criticize a Thai government law against criticizing the Thai government, he hardly expected his ISP to turn his information over to Thai investigators.
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We follow Prisoner 707, Noor Uthman Muhammed, to find out how the unlucky men got to the island prison, and whether it’ll ever be possible for us all to leave.
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Yes, yes, let’s just get this one out of the way now. I hadn’t been paying much attention to the Google “Real Names” clusterfuck, because it was so obvious to me that they were going to lose this one in the press that it would all be over soon.
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As the US security state grows and civil rights and liberties erode, Osama bin Laden gets the last laugh.
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Law enforcement efforts to obtain cell phone location data and Internet records have prompted privacy rights advocates to launch a nationwide investigation. This month, the American Civil Liberties Union of California filed Freedom of Information Act requests asking more than 50 police agencies to disclose the details of their digital surveillance activity.
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A new proposed “casebook” on psychologist ethics in national security settings, written by the Ethics Committee of the American Psychological Association (APA), tells psychologists that when assessing whether an interrogation technique is abusive or not, they should consider, among other factors, whether there are “data to support that the technique is effective in gathering accurate information.” This determination, which places the needs of the military or intelligence gathering entity above that of the person the psychologist is examining, demonstrates how blatantly unethical it is for psychologists to participate in these interrogations.
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