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Pittsburgh Against Torture Vigil
Members of Pittsburgh Against Torture march silently through Downtown Pittsburgh as part of the United Nation's International Day of support of torture victims.
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Supreme Court: A Victory for Justice, A Call to Further Action
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS THE RIGHTS OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
A VICTORY FOR JUSTICE ? A CALL TO FURTHER ACTION
Press Release: June 13, 2008
With yesterday?s Supreme Court?s decision, there is now an unequivocal mandate from the highest judicial body in the United Sates to close the detention center at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and bring cases of the detainees into the Federal Justice system.
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Ellen Davidson: Jumpsuit Justice Has To Go
From the June 6, 2008 issue of the IndyPendent
http://www.indypendent.org/2008/06/06/jumpsuit-justice/
On May 29, Washington, D.C., Superior Court Judge Wendell Gardner found me and 33 codefendants guilty of ?parading, standing, or moving in a procession or assemblage in the Supreme Court Building? and displaying a ?device designed or adapted to bring into public notice a party, organization, or movement.? For most of us, the ?crime? consisted of either kneeling on the Supreme Court steps in orange jumpsuits and black hoods or kneeling inside in orange t-shirts that said ?Shut Down Guantánamo.?
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Standing Up for the Soul of the Nation
Published on Common Dreams, 5/30/08
On Tuesday, May 27th, trial began for thirty-five people arrested at the U.S. Supreme Court on January 11, 2008 ? the date that marked six years of torture and abuse at the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay.
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Lawyer For Prisoners At Guantanamo Barred From Testifying At Trial For Anti-Torture Activists
Washington, DC, May 29, 2008 - Today, Judge Wendell Gardner refused to hear testimony from Guantanamo attorney, Thomas Wilner, in the trial of 34 Americans arrested while acting on behalf of Guantanamo detainees at the U.S. Supreme Court on January 11, 2008. Judge Gardner ruled that Wilner?s testimony was unnecessary? and ?not relevant? to make a determination.
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Anti-Torture Activists Convicted
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 29, 2008 - Thirty-four Americans arrested at the Supreme Court on January 11, 2008 were found guilty after a three-day trial which began on Tuesday, May 27th in D.C. Superior Court. The defendants represented themselves, mounting a spirited defense of their First Amendment rights to protest the gross injustice of abuse and indefinite detention of men at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay.
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"Guantanamo's Day in Court" James Carroll's Boston Globe Column
TOMORROW a number of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay will finally get their day in court - although, alas, not literally. Thirty-five Americans who were arrested at the US Supreme Court last January during a demonstration protesting the illegal detention center will go on trial in Washington. They are charged with "causing a harangue." Instead of entering their own names, each defendant will enter the name of a prisoner held at Guantanamo. Father Bill Pickard, a Catholic priest from Pennsylvania, will identify himself as Faruq Ali Ahmed. "He cannot do it himself," Pickard says, "so I am called by my faith, my respect for the rule of law, and my conscience to do it for him."
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Press Coverage of Guantanamo Protest Trial
June 6, 2008
"Guantanamo Protesters Sentenced,"
Muslim Link Newspaper, By Rashad Mulla
http://www.muslimlinkpaper.com/mybo2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1530&Itemid=1
DemocracyNow Interviews Matt Daloisio
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Torture protests at UC law school ceremonies
Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, May 18, 2008
(05-17) 10:53 PDT BERKELEY -- Some 50 protesters, clad in orange jumpsuits and black hoods to emulate the infamous photos of prisoners in Iraq, picketed UC Berkeley's law school graduation ceremony Saturday, demanding that the university fire Professor John Yoo for his authorship of the Bush administration's policies on torture.
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Guantanamo Detainees Get Their "Day In Court"
 Thirty-four Americans arrested at the Supreme Court on January 11, 2008 were found guilty after a three-day trial which began on Tuesday, May 27th in D.C. Superior Court. The 34 defendants represented themselves, mounting a spirited defense of their First Amendment rights to protest the gross injustice of abuse and indefinite detention of men at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. Twelve were given jail sentences ranging from one to fifteen days, as well as a one year stay-away from the Supreme Court, and $50 in court fees.
All told, 80 people were arrested on January 11th in D.C. as part of an International Day of Action to Shut Down Guantanamo.
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