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Showing posts with label detention. Show all posts

Showing posts with label detention. Show all posts

Dec 24, 2009

Little word from U.S. on Nyi Nyi Aung, jailed in Burma

Image by totaloutnow via Flickr By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 24, 2009; A07 After his arrest in Sep...

Aug 14, 2009

U.S. Detains Voice of America Journalist Fleeing Threats at Home in Pakistan

By N.C. Aizenman Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, August 14, 2009 U.S. immigration officials have detained a Pakistani journalist e...

Aug 3, 2009

Iranian Targeted by Onetime Associates

By Tara Bahrampour Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 3, 2009 In the early days of the Islamic Republic of Iran , Saeed Hajjar...

Jul 25, 2009

Holding the Line

by Meghan Rhoad July 20, 2009 Related Materials: Detained and D...

Jul 3, 2009

This July 4th, Let’s Be True to Our Principles

By Jeanne Theoharis, July 3, 2009 It’s the Fourth of July in America, and a U.S. citizen sits in solitary confinement in New York — and he h...

Jul 2, 2009

Honduras Targets Protesters With Emergency Decree

By William Booth and Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, July 2, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, July 1 -- The new Hond...

Jun 29, 2009

Will Obama Follow Bush Or FDR?

By Benjamin Wittes and Jack Goldsmith Monday, June 29, 2009 Soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Bush administration faced a fateful ...

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