Documentary Pries Open the Door to Immigrant Detention Centers

By Seth Freed Wessler and Maria Hinojosa, Color Lines. In the documentary, “Lost in Detention,” a father of three sits down with a journalist who asks him how he has handled his wife’s deportation. She was removed from the U.S. after she was pulled over for a traffic violation.

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CCR Statement on the Execution of Troy Davis

CCR Press Release | Haiti Chery. The execution of Troy Anthony Davis by lethal injection at 11:08 p.m. on September 21 marked a low point for justice in the U.S. Mr. Davis was executed despite serious doubts about his guilt and despite reports of a deeply divided parole board in which one vote may have tipped the balance between life and death.

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Spain Reveals Cuba’s Plan to Free All Political Prisoners

By Anita Brooks, The Independent UK. The Spanish Foreign Minister yesterday told his country’s parliament that Cuba would soon release all political prisoners and suggested that the E.U. and U.S. could respond by softening longstanding sanctions against the island nation.

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