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| Articles about Jails |
| Guards walk out on Toronto jails in ongoing dispute | | 2008-01-17 09:19:00 | | Guards at two Toronto jails briefly walked off the job yesterday as a long-running hate crimes investigation and a more ordinary labour dispute bubbled over into job action.At the Toronto West Detention Centre, at least 80 of its 300 guards walked off the job for hours in what appeared to be a flare-up in a running dispute about working conditions and other matters. | | By: News Alert | | |
| | CNDD-FDD government murders 16, jails journalists who exposed ruling party's lies | | 2006-11-22 13:35:00 | | The day after Amnesty International revealed more details about the 16 alleged "FNL suspects" murdered by Burundian security forces in August, the Burundian government has jailed two journalists from the country's leading independent radio station, Radio Publique Africaine, who helped expose fraudulent claims by the ruling CNDD-FDD party of an alleged coup plot. In August, senior members of every major opposition party in Burundi - together with leaders of several more minor parties - were arrested and charged with conspiring to overthrow the government. The authorities have failed to present any evidence to support these charges, which are widely believed to be nothing more than a pretext for suppressing the political opposition. At the same time as journalists and democratically elected politicans have been imprisoned without trial, and "FNL suspects" extrajudicially murdered, the Burundian government has offered immunity from prosecution to the leadership of Palipehutu-FNL, the gro | | By: Agathon Rwasa | | |
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