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Last month, a judge issued a “Catch-22” order, requiring these individuals to reveal their identities before their motions – which were made to protect their identities – could proceed. In a friend of the court brief filed Monday, EFF argues that this requirement could induce defendants to settle their lawsuits in order to avoid the embarrassment, humiliation, or expense, instead of getting to the merits of the case.
Via eff.org

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“Our government’s deliberate and premeditated killing of American terrorism suspects raises profound questions that ought to be the subject of public debate,” Nathan Freed Wessler of the ACLU said. “Unfortunately the Obama administration has released very little information about the practice — its official position is that the targeted killing program is a state secret — and some of the information it has released has been misleading.”
Via rawstory.com

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A rare video of Indian border guards allegedly torturing a Bangladeshi man recently surfaced. It allegedly shows Border Security Force soldiers stripping a man naked before trussing him to a stick and beating him repeatedly.  
Via blogs.wsj.com

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With use of drones, the world could get clear, instant evidence of atrocities in Syria.
Via nytimes.com

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Last week a federal jury in Oregon awarded damages to an environmental activist who sued the city of Eugene after a police officer seized his video camera and arrested him for wiretapping.
Via reason.com

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The UK action charity Reprieve, whose attorneys represent over a dozen prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, reports that former Guantánamo prisoner, Algerian citizen Abdul Aziz Naji, has been sentenced to three years in prison in Algeria. Reprieve says the charges were “of past membership in an extremist group overseas – a charge derived from the unsubstantiated accusations the US administration made against him in 2002.”
Via truth-out.org

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In a new book, excerpted below, former CNN correspondent Rebecca MacKinnon explains how Beijing, and its loyal corporate minions, scrub ‘disharmonious’ material from the Chinese Web.
Via fullcomment.nationalpost.com

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Burning a flag or a religious or political book is an expression of an opinion, usually a deeply held opinion, that the item symbolises, or is the cause, of malign actions or beliefs. People should be able to express such opinions, even if it upsets and annoys others, without fear of being arrested and possibly imprisoned.
Via adamsmith.org

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The decision to throw out Jose Padilla’s suit threatens the core freedoms guaranteed to US citizens by the constitution.
Via aljazeera.com