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July 22, 2005Afghanistan: Officials accused of war crimes Human Rights Watch issued a report July 7 pointing out that many high-level officials and advisors in Afghanistan’s current government are implicated in major war crimes and human rights abuses...
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More calls to free former Haitian prime minister
July 22, 2005Despite mounting pressure for his release, deposed Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune remains in custody and is continuing a prolonged hunger strike in protest against his yearlong detention without trial. After going before a judge on...
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UN group faults U.S. on Cuban 5
July 22, 2005An agency of the UN Human Rights Commission recently criticized the U.S. government’s handling of the case of the Cuban Five, five men arrested in Miami in September 1998 on various charges, including, in three cases,...
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Congress caves in to right wing on Cuba travel
July 22, 2005In a noteworthy turnabout, the House of Representatives rejected several measures on June 29 that would have eased some of the Bush administration’s restrictions on travel to Cuba. Rep. Jim Davis (D-Fla.) had proposed an amendment...
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South African Communists continue the struggle
July 22, 2005CHICAGO — Ben Dikobe Martins represented the South African Communist Party at the 28th National Convention of Communist Party USA here, July 1-3. Martins is a senior leader of the SACP and an elected member of...
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