Positive Universe Abstracts

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE AI Index: EUR 50/007/2005 27 September 2005 (m)

“If you don’t fight the wrongdoing, it will just give rise to more.” Mikhailo Koval from Chernihiv, victim of alleged ill-treatment

Law enforcement officers routinely extract confessions and testimonies from detainees through force, often resorting to torture, Amnesty International said today as it unveiled its report Ukraine: Time [...]

Two Executions Today/Tomorrow (don’t let these become hurricane victims too by lack of awareness in the news) (m) : September 27: Herman Ashworth, OH - ACT NOW! September 28: Alan Lehman Matheney, IN - ACT NOW! www.ncadp.org/

Note the recent killings, Frances Newton was ALSO a Katrina victim and her story was lost in the news (two of these [...]

COMMON CAUSE: Hold Washington Accountable for Hurricane Relief! (h)

(My note, there are plenty of other ways along with $ contributions–write about this–disseminate–discuss! Include making The American Red Cross Accountable Publically in the light of so many who said they never saw them in New Orleans! Connie)

As flood waters from Katrina and Rita finally start [...]

UPDATES ON CINDY SHEEHAN: www.truthout.org (Camp Casey, DC) (Also at democracynow.org)

Russert repeated false Knight Ridder claim that Cindy Sheehan “protested outside [Hillary] Clinton’s New York office”

mediamatters.org/items/200509270001

On the September 25 broadcast of NBC’s Meet the Press, host Tim Russert suggested that Cindy Sheehan’s anti-war activism might negatively affect a potential 2008 presidential campaign by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton [...]

Under-Reported (m):

Various Torture campaigns/articles:

Detention/torture/rendition/no charge: www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=R0O9un6m3t&Content=634 (Many Gitmo hunger strikers past 77 days; some ill & perhaps dying.)

www.amnestyusa.org/

www.commondreams.org

Published on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 by Inter Press Service Calls Mount for Prisoner Abuse Commission by William Fisher

NEW YORK - New allegations of prisoner torture in Iraq are likely to add urgency to pending legislation that would create [...]

Re. below, also see: www.fromthewilderness.com for more on the influence/inter-cooperation (or forced indebtedness?) of US/China /Russia and oil companies.. and positiveuniverse.com (weblogs) (h)

“…until the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders released court documents showing that Yahoo’s Hong Kong subsidiary played the central role in identifying Shi to police, his case was obscure… “

Yahoo, Chinese Police & a Jailed [...]

Russia ’s Largest Oil Producer Lukoil Opens Office in China Station owner snubs Lukoil (m)

Posted on From the Wilderness sent Sep 27 05

23.09.2005 MosNews www.mosnews.com/money/2005/09/23/lukoilchinaoffice.shtml

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