Honduras coup update September 2015 (tags)
September 2015 in Honduras. Intensifying repression with soldiers and cops pulling out guns against protesters and in mass evictions particularly where there are occupying farmers. One sixteen year old died this way, and another farmer was assassinated 2 days after participating in a protest. This is mixed with selection persecution against journalists and leaders as they came to control demonstrations. 28 year old loved son of writers was arrested accused of killing lawyer of an elite family - both responsible for the massive IHSS scandal that stole so much from people, and for continuously killing people who are witnesses to the scandal for example. About this and more, check out the update
Israel Frees Khader Adnan (tags)
Israel
"COINTELPRO" U.K.: Exposing the integral role of British human rights "lawyers" (tags)
The purpose of this article is to show (beyond the obvious of why), who & -how- the biggest “Human Rights”...lawyers in the U.K, not only, work hand in hand with, but are integral -to- COINTELPRO style, state operations, in the U.K.
Alberto Pathistan Political prisioner (tags)
Press release, comunicado de prensa Leonel Rivero is Alberto Pathistan lawyer and Francisco Jimenez ex polit prisoner Speaking tour from Mexico (D.F. and Chiapas), October 16 through the 20th info 323 854-2060, 951-316-3612
Urgent Request -- Help Hire Lawyer for the Cleveland 5! (tags)
Legal Defense Fund Needs Donations
BTL:Jailed Palestinian Hunger Strikers Win Concessions from Israelis on Improved Prison Co (tags)
Interview with Saher Francis, human rights lawyer and director of Addameer, a prisoner support and human rights association based in the West Bank, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Police Questioning - Liars 101 (tags)
Always refused to answer any and all police questions by taking the 5th Amendment and refusing to answer police questions.
Occupy Police arrests of media (tags)
Here is a starter for collecting stories on media arresting journalists. Please add more related pieces via comments.
LULA AND THE SAD RESTART OF BRAZIL (tags)
Brazil that the USA created with the coup d'état of 1964 continues alive and assets.
CONTINUED TAX CUTS 4 WEALTHY ELITE AMERICANS IS PUTTING SALT IN POORER AMERICAN WOUNDS ~ (tags)
U.S. WEALTHY ELITE TAX BREAKS & TAX FREE SLUSH FOUNDATIONS DAMAGE TO AVERAGE AMERICANS IS ENDLESS & OBVIOUS.... PRESIDENT OBAMA
Ogetto warns of dangerous international legal precedent in Rwanda (tags)
Kennedy Ogetto, Kenyan lawyer and Defense Counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda warned that Rwanda's arrest of American Law Professor Peter Erlinder sets a very dangerous international legal precedent. Ogetto, is now in Rwanda's capitol, Kigali, defending Erlinder, who was arrested on May 28th, for speech crime, in Rwanda. He said that the prosecution's use of statements Erlinder made as a defense lawyer at the ICTR as evidence against him will make it impossible for defense lawyers to safely defend anyone in international courts.
PHILIPPINES: Sanlakas party to file plunder raps vs Villar (tags)
MANILA, Philippines - Party-list group Sanlakas will file a plunder case against Nacionalista Party presidential bet Manny Villar based on land-grabbing allegations.
PHILIPPINES: Militants mulls plunder raps vs Villar (tags)
MANILA, Philippines—A militant group is considering filing plunder charges against Nacionalista Party standard bearer Sen. Manuel Villar for the alleged questionable practices for property development of his real estate companies as well as impeachment complaints if he is elected President.
POOR AMERICANS NATION~WIDE ARE WAITING 4 JUSTICE IN LOUISIANA TO PREVAIL PRESIDENT OBAMA ? (tags)
POSSIBLE WRONGFUL EXECUTIONS BEING INFLICTED ON ONLY POOR AMERICANS NATION~WIDE (TROY DAVIS OF GEORGIA, MUMIA ABU~JAMAL OF PENNSYLVANIA),FALSE IMPRISONMENT FOR AN ESTIMATED 100,000 INNOCENT POOR AMERICANS WHO OBVIOUSLY WERE NEVER AFFORDED A PROPER LEGAL OR INVESTIGATIVE DEFENSE AND NOW THE HORROR OF OUR JUSTICES TO DENY NEW TRIALS IN LOUISIANA WITHOUT EVEN LOOKING AT THEIR APPEALS ???
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN LOUISIANA PRESIDENT OBAMA OR BUSINESS AS USUAL AGAINST ~ POOR (tags)
POSSIBLE WRONGFUL EXECUTIONS BEING INFLICTED ON ONLY POOR AMERICANS NATION~WIDE , WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT FOR AN ESTIMATED 100,000 INNOCENT POOR AMERICANS WHO OBVIOUSLY WERE NEVER AFFORDED A PROPER LEGAL OR INVESTIGATIVE DEFENSE AND NOW THE HORROR OF OUR JUSTICES TO DENY NEW TRIALS IN La. WITHOUT EVEN LOOKING AT THEIR APPEALS ???
LACSON MUST FACE THE MUSIC--ATTY.VALERA (tags)
The US-based lawyer of Dacer-Corbito murder case star witness Cezar Mancao today lauded the arrest order against Senator Panfilo Lacson but urged the government to focus on the bigger conspiracy and expand indictments on all suspects identified in Mancao’s testimony. “This is good for our justice system and to the families of Bubby Dacer and Emmanuel Corbito,” lawyer Arnedo Valera said in a statement. He urged Lacson to surface and submit himself to the Philippine justice process.
U.S. citizens arrested for asking Oaxaca governor about Brad Will's murder (tags)
Three U.S. tourists and one Uruguayan citizen were arrested in Oaxaca City on Thursday January 28 after approaching Ulises Ruiz in the city's zocalo and asking him about the murder of Indymedia activist Brad Will.
12/11/09 Update on Imprisoned People's Lawyer Lynne Stewart (tags)
Your holiday cards to framed and falsely imprisoned workingclass lawyer Lynne Stewart and financial contributions to her legal defense are needed now. Your letters are also needed as she faces a new sentencing hearing on April 22. Her high blood pressure at age 70 is sufficient grounds to free her as it is deadly. Here are the latest updates from her website.
Petition to Free Lynne Stewart (tags)
There is now an online Petition to Free Lynne Stewart, the lawyer who was framed on false charges because she spent her life defending the workingclass.
Lynne Stewart: Heroic Human Rights Lawyer Jailed (tags)
The US criminal justice system betrayed this heroic woman
Fascist Obama Jails Framed Ill People's Lawyer Lynne Stewart (tags)
Almost every day we hear about another reactionary act by the latest fascist in the White House, Democratic millionaire, warmonger, death penalty promoter Obama. The latest is the fact that he refuses to drop the charges and dismiss the frame-up of 70-year-old seriously ill people's lawyer Lynne Stewart and her co-defendants but instead allows the 2d Circuit to immediately jail her. The protests must be loud and clear as this is fascism.
PRESIDENT OBAMA OBVIOUSLY CHOSE THE RIGHT MAN FOR OUR POORER AMERICANS..... (tags)
LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS APPLAUDS OUR U.S. ATTORNEY GENERALS THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS CONCERNING HIS FUTURE ASPIRATIONS FOR OUR AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM.** WE GREATLY APPRECIATE HAVING SUCH A SPECIAL PERSONALITY AS ERIC HOLDER TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY INTO THE NEW AGE OF JUDICIAL CHANGE FOR ALL OUR MIDDLE~CLASS AND WORKING POOR U.S. CITIZENS...
The UD Shuffle | Not Like Perry Mason (tags)
If you are representing yourself in unlawful detainer, imagine an episode where Perry isn’t familiar with the rules, the judge hates him and Hamilton Burger has a perfect record. If you truly want to save your tenancy, the business decision you make to defend your eviction should include an allocation of funds to hire a tenant lawyer.
El Paso lawyer Gary Hill indicted threatening driver with a gun in July car crash inciden (tags)
She was found in an abandoned house in the desert minutes outside of the city. She had been beaten and stabbed multiple times. Carey’s father believes that his daughter was about to testify against Hill and others in a federal and on going investigation involving the Mexican drug cartel and there hired assailants the El Paso's Barrio Azteca Gang One Of The Most Dangerous In Nation.
COMMUNITY MEETS TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR ALEX SÁNCHEZ (tags)
June 28, 2009. 6PM. More than 200 community members, activists, family, colleagues, and supporters of Alex Sánchez, met early Sunday evening in a show of unconditional support at CARECEN.
Newt Gingrich Out Twitted by EFCA Twitterer Making Him Look Like A REAL CLOWN! (tags)
Newt Gingrich's Lawyer Displays Ignorance Of Both Twitter And The Law In Sending C&D
Homeowners' rallying cry: Produce the note (tags)
ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (AP) — Kathy Lovelace lost her job and was about to lose her house, too. But then she made a seemingly simple request of the bank: Show me the original mortgage paperwork. And just like that, the foreclosure proceedings came to a standstill.
WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA TOLD THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS, GIVE THEM LIBERTY OR GIVE THEM LAWYERS (tags)
WILL OUR DEMOCRATIC US CONGRESS CORRECT THIS AMERICAN INJUSTICE ??? (tags)
THIS IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF OUR UNDERFUNDED JUDICIAL SYSTEM THAT NEEDS...C*H*A*N*G*E.......
IS OUR AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM GUILTY OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION'S ??? (tags)
IF THIS IS A TRUE EVENT, AND IS HAPPENING NATIONWIDE, OUR CURRENT ELECTION OF THE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL BE OVERSHADOWED BY THIS HORROR !!!
Saga Of Orange County's Sheriff Michael S. Carona (tags)
Police expert slams OC Sheriff’s Department for ‘cowboy’ attitude and ‘fatal errors’ that led to a street execution
Eric McDavid - Vegan Food Victory! (tags)
Sacramento County Main Jail says they are changing policy...
URGENT- Eric McDavid denied critical medical care! (tags)
Please call the jail immediately...
Priebke - Ex-Nazi gets work release in Italy (tags)
By FRANCESCO D'EMILIO, Associated Press Writer A former Nazi captain serving a life sentence for war crimes took a motorbike to his lawyer's office Monday on a work-release permit, outraging Jewish residents and prompting Italy's defense minister to summon a military prosecutor for an explanation.
THE LAST DAYS IN OAXACA - A REPORT BACK BY XOCHITL (tags)
Dear friends and family, After about a week of traveling around Mexico, on the run after our arrest, we returned to Oaxaca for a few days before leaving the country. It was a beguiling, heart-wrenching and stressful time.
Human Rights Lawyer , drayber Patay sa Ambus sa Bicol (tags)
Isang human rights lawyer at drayber nito ang nasawi makaraang pagbabarilin ng dalawang maskaradong kalalakihan habang pauwi na ang mga biktima galing sa paglilitis ng korte sa bayan ng Gubat, Sorsogon kahapon ng umaga.
Lawyer disputes claims of 'overt sexual activity' on plane (tags)
Sounds like another case of out of control jack booted police thugs!!!!!
Freedom Fighter effectively gets death sentence (tags)
Because of her cancer Lynne Stewart a freedom fighting civil rights lawyer has been given the death sentence.
Cuban Lawyer Wary of US Posada Move (tags)
Lawyer and official of the Cuban Foreign Ministry Alejandro García del Toro denounced that the US is aspiring to give citizenship to international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, thus favoring his liberation.
Bolante wants US to give him asylum (tags)
Former agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn Bolante has sought political asylum in the US, where he has been detained after US immigration canceled his visa last week. A source in the Department of Foreign Affairs said Bolante asked for asylum about 1 a.m. on Thursday, Manila time. The information jibes with the report of the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) that Bolante’s lawyer in Los Angeles confirmed he had requested asylum.
Military fugitives, lawyer nabbed (tags)
UPDATE) AT LEAST six military fugitives and a lawyer linked to a group of rebel officers and soldiers that tried to oust President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2003 were arrested Friday, according to reports gathered by Pesante-USA from Philippine news sources.
Judge tosses confession in Fla. killing (tags)
Lawyer???? You can't have a stinking lawyer if he prevents you from confessing!!!! At least thats what the cops said!
Federal Investigators and Your Rights By: Center for Constitutional Rights
LISTED: CIA Planes; EU Pacts for Lynching Muslims; CIA Front Co.s, Lawyers (tags)
CIA DDO (Jose Rodriguez), the chief spy? All are listed below. The 22 American CIA agents allegedly led by Robert Seldon Lady in the 2003 Milan kidnapping of Muslim cleric Abu Omar? The Italian secret service SISMI knew in advance of their operation, just as Mr. Lady claims. There is a document that proves, in writing, such operations involve the cooperation of EU governments. The Milan prosecutor Spataro knows this. Prime Minister Berlusconi knows this. Still, these two men are on a collision course as Spataro prepares for a show trail of the 22 "in absentia" while Berlusconi attempts to get away with denying everything.
PROSECUTE HOWARD DEAN’S APPOINTEES/CRIMINALS (tags)
Equal opportunity criminal prosecution for Howard Dean’s top appointees/cronies….
EU, CIA's Secret Jails:a SCOOP on CIA Prison Planes (tags)
Two countries the media declined to name...a complete list of CIA shell companies and aircraft.... News media reported Thursday that the group Human Rights Watch "claims records and other evidence point to POLAND and ROMANIA as countries that allowed their territory to be used by the CIA to hold top suspected al-Qaeda captives." We report that HRW knows that from tracing the movements of CIA planes and we provide a list of the planes.
Howard Dean, Extortion, Bribes and other problems (tags)
DNC Chair Howard Dean’s problems with the Bill of Rights, the Law and Ethics.
Lecture: Illegal Detentions of the U.S. War on Terror (tags)
This 15 minute lecture was one of four presentations given on U.S. political prisoners at the ANSWER coalition meeting on 11/23/04 in Los Angeles (sorry, the video says 11/24/04, which is wrong).
What to Do if the FBI Drops By Your Home or Office (tags)
US Government's COINTELPRO - Still Undead The stinking corpse of the FBI's infamous "Counter-Intelligence Program", or COINTELPRO, which was used from the 1940s through the 1970s against Communists, Anarchists, Civil Rights Activists and sundry other decent working-class militants, and which was "allegedly" discontinued in 1971, is fully risen from the grave once again.
'They Just Wanted it to Go Away' (tags)
'The Stupidest Thing the Army Could Have Done is Charge These Reservists...Any Defense Lawyer is Going to Push to Find Out Who Was Really Calling the Shots at Abu Ghurayb,' Says Defendant's Lawyer
URGENT MESSAGE TO ELLEN MARIANI -- GET A NEW LAWYER -- FIRE PHILIP BERG. (tags)
Ellen Mariani\'s lawyer, Philip Berg, is deliberately preparing a case for Ellen that he knows will FAIL, so as to protect the guilty. Read about it here.
When communism takes over (tags)
Facts on property owning in Finland.
Sirhan Sirhan Is Innocent! (tags)
Reporting on a recent speech by Sirhan Sirhan Lawyer, Lawrence Teeter, in Los Angeles.
Post-9/11, this doesn't seem all that weird (tags)
And back in 2001, he and Slansky defended another unpopular man in another very murky case. The man was Delmart Edward Vreeland, an American locked up in the Don jail who was wanted in his own country for credit card fraud. What was unusual about Vreeland was his claim that the U.S. government had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
US fires Guantanamo defence team (tags)
U.S. Defence Attorneys objected to the Bush Junta's Kanagaroo Court in Guantanomo and so were fired for actually expecting a Judicial Proceding rather than Drumhead Military Courts with a predertimed guilty Verdict. They have already been embarassed by the numbers of innocent Prisoners that they have had to release.
URGENT! Gov't attacks on Amer Jubran, Thursday 11/6 (tags)
After a year of refusing to present evidence or witnesses in its endlessly delayed prosecution of Amer Jubran, the federal government handed Amer's lawyer a fifty-two page document presenting its case--scarcely more than a week before Amer's final trial.
Pomona Activists Need LEGAL HELP NOW (tags)
URGENT - Activists in Pomona need legal help. If you know an activist lawyer, please get them to contact them immediately. (They need help by early this afternoon.)
Sherman's Case: In His Own Words (tags)
Sherman Austin's Legal Case in his own words.
Lawyer: Bush criminalizes criticism (tags)
Der Fuhrer is most displeased. Criticism is not allowed. Defense lawyer Lewis Pitts wants documents from state and federal authorities he said will prove his claim that Bursey "has been wrongly charged simply for criticizing the president."
Inglewood beating in Comparison to rodney king is Worse.
Media walk on Ashcroft's leash (tags)
On March 1, give or take a day, in Columbus, Ohio, the FBI arrested an American citizen it says is Iyman Faris. There wasn't a word uttered. He vanished. No lawyer was notified. He made no phone calls and wrote no letters. He was a U.S. citizen who disappeared without a trace into a secret metal world.
Sight of Cross Makes Jewish Lawyer Sick - Will Sue (tags)
How about Sight of Star of David Make Christian Lawyer Sick - Will Sue! Does that work? NO?? I Didn't think so either.
Report of anti-war Demo's from Portugal,Germany,Egypt and Tunisia (tags)
Anti-war
No counsel? No bail? no questions? (tags)
This is about a couple thrown in jail without anyone to defend them. This is about the United States of America and the war on drugs. This is about a war on their people.
ALF Press Officer Court Update (tags)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - The spokesman for a radical animal rights group asked a judge to throw out a search warrant that allowed Canada's anti-terrorism squad to raid his house on behalf of U.S. authorities. David Barbarash, spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front, claims the July raid on his Vancouver Island home by nine members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team amounted to harassment.
Don't miss it! Next week: arab and Muslim citizens vs. the FBI and the Federalist Society (tags)
A Muslim student and an Arab-American defense lawyer square off against an FBI spokesman and a lawyer from Pepperdine, over the Constitution and the Bush Administration. At Cal State L.A.
Copied from the AP newswire. Just says that he's going to be send back to LA, and that he was denied bail because the judge thinks he would not comply with his order. Tipograph, his lawyer, let out that this is a freedom of speech issue.
On Ashcroft's Enemies List (tags)
On Ashcroft's Enemies List
Fuehrer Bush OKs Military Trials for Civilians (tags)
President Bush signed an order Tuesday that would allow the government to try people accused of terrorism in front of a special military commission instead of in civilian court. Compare and contrast with the rise of Hitler's power in Nazi Germany.
More Long Beach Mayday contact info for arestees (tags)
more information for Long Beach arestees - please pass along
Alleged Bomb Threat Blocks IndyMedia Satellite Transmission (tags)
The Los Angeles Police Department has informed the Independent Media Center, Shadow Convention, and other occupants of the Patriotic Building in downtown LA of an alleged bomb threat. T
KUCI Subversity show on D2K Protests (tags)
Realaudio file available of interview with civil rights attorney Carol Sobel on police overreaction after Rage Against the Machine concert Monday night (August 14, 2000); highlights from Mumia March on Sunday (August 13, 2000) including talks by Mumia's son; his lawyer Leonard Weinglass, and an interview with Weinglass.
Remember the Bank Robbery In LA! (tags)