A Kentucky jury Nov. 14 ordered three members of the Imperial Klans of America (IKA), including “Imperial Wizard” Ron Edwards, to pay $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages for a racially motivated attack against Jordan… Read moreKlan to pay in Kentucky hate attack; Long Island pol blamed in another
Jill McGivering in a Nov. 12 report for the BBC, “Rough justice for Afghan women inmates,” visits Afghanistan’s dismal Lashkar Gah prison in Helmand, revealing that women and teenage girls continue to be incarcerated for lengthy terms in harsh conditions… Read moreRough justice for women in post-Taliban Afghanistan
Israeli police evicted a disabled Palestinian man and his wife from their East Jerusalem home of more than 50 years in a late-night raid early Nov. 9. The eviction followed a July Israeli supreme court order that found the home,… Read moreElderly Palestinian couple evicted from Jerusalem home in night raid
In a joint operation by French and Spanish police, Miguel de Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina AKA “Txeroki” (Cherokee)—Spain’s most wanted terror suspect and purported military head of ETA—was arrested Nov. 16 in the resort town of Cauterets in the French Pyrenees,… Read moreETA leader “Txeroki” arrested in France; EU peace process called for
Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon acknowledged Nov. 16 while speaking to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child that the US has held 12 juveniles at the Guantánamo Bay prison. The announcement came in response to a study released… Read moreUS admits more juveniles held at Gitmo
In a Nov. 16 statement, Human Rights Watch said that upon inauguration US president-elect Barack Obama should immediately repudiate the previous administration’s “abusive” counter-terrorism policies in order to bring US practices into accordance with the country’s “basic values” and its… Read moreHRW urges Obama to repudiate “abusive” counter-terror policies
In a five-day operation from Nov. 3 through Nov. 7—the week of the Nov. 4 presidential elections—US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 96 “immigration fugitives” and 15 “immigration violators” in southern and central Florida. ICE made 43 arrests in… Read moreObama pressured following election-week ICE raids in Florida
ICE agents returned to the Agriprocessors Inc. kosher meat processing plant in the small town of Postville, Iowa, on Nov. 4 and arrested one suspected unauthorized worker, an ICE official said. Agents remained at the plant following the arrest, and… Read moreIowa meat plant raided again
On Oct. 30, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested two workers at the Casa Fiesta restaurant in Oberlin, Ohio. Two employees of the Casa Fiesta restaurant in Fremont and one employee of Casa Fiesta in Ashland were also… Read moreICE raids protested in Ohio
On Oct. 25, immigration detainee Mamadou Bah escaped from Delaney Hall, a private detention facility in Newark, NJ, which was holding 120 immigration detainees under contract with the federal government. Essex County corrections director Scott Faunce would not comment on… Read moreNew Jersey: ICE detainee escapes, others moved
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador—known by his initials AMLO—will be Mexico's next president, following his victory in the July 1 election. This marks the first time a Mexican presidential candidate of the left has had his victory honored. An obvious question is how AMLO will deal with Donald Trump—who attained office by demonizing Mexicans and pledging to build a wall on the border (and make Mexico pay for it). Last year, AMLO actually filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against Trump's proposed wall. But he also hired Trump's current crony Rudolph Giuliani as anti-crime czar when he was mayor of Mexico City in 2002. As populists and opponents of free-trade economics, there may be unlikely common ground between the two men. (Photo: El Txoro)
On Saturday, Nov. 15, at 8 AM, eight military veterans and a military mother climbed a 9-foot retaining fence outside the National Archives Building in Washington DC, and occupied a 90-foot high scaffolding to raise two 450-square foot banners reading,… Read moreVeterans occupy National Archives to demand impeachment —again
