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CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Claim They Were Framed
Temuco :: Chile | 16 days ago
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Such claims, which the authorities deny, are commonly heard in southern Chile, the homeland of the Mapuche people, who complain about being framed for things they did not do, in the context of the ageold dispute over land. "My son (Sergio Catrilaf, head...
Tags: Jos� Antonio Viera-Gallo, terror law, Mapuche Territorial Alliance, Chile, Mapuche Indians, Mapuche Nation, Luisa Marilef, mapuche detainees, territory alliance, Sergio Catrilaf, Temuco, Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco, Mapudungun, Mapuche conflict, War Conflict, Mapuche, Indigenous peoples in Chile, Araucanￃﾭa
Chile Invokes Pinochet-Era Anti-Terrorism Law
Santiago :: Chile | 16 days ago
Credibility Although President Michelle Bachelet promised not to invoke the Pinochet-Era Anti-Terrorism Law (19.027) against the Mapuche during her presidential campaign, at least seven Mapuche activists have been indicted under the provisions of the law since her...
Tags: Mapuche, terror law, Miguel Tapia Huenulef, Chilean National Police, mapuche activists, UNICEF, Michelle Bachelet, Bush, mapuche children, commit crimes, Chile, Santiago, Augusto Pinochet, Mapudungun, State terrorism, Anti-terrorism legislation, Indigenous peoples in Chile, Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco, War Conflict, Social Issues, Politics
Chile invokes terror law
Santiago :: Chile | about 1 month ago
Credibility The controversial law triples the punishment for arson and illegal land occupation and has been used 16 times in the past decade, mostly against the Mapuche people who claim sovereignty over ancestral lands in southern Araucania region. The United Nations...
Tags: Chile, terror law, Mapuche Indians
Suryadharma Ali resigns from ministerial post
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 2 months ago
Credibility During the April legislative elections, the chairman of the United and Development Party (PPP) was elected to represent West Java election area II at the House of Representatives for 2009-2014 period. (ewd) Comments (0) | Post comment A | A |...
Tags: Indonesian Security Ministry, Jakarta Post, Jakarta Fri, Antara, West Java, Malaysian Noordin Mohammed Top, terror law, Bank Indonesia, told antara
Indonesian publisher declared bomb suspect
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 3 months ago
Credibility A radical Indonesian publisher said to be a former member of al-Qaeda has been declared a suspect in July's deadly luxury hotel bombings in the capital Jakarta, national police said on Tuesday. Publisher and blogger Mohammed Jibril Abdurahman, who went...
Tags: Indonesian, Garuda Indonesia, Jakarta, terrorists infiltrated, terror law, Bambang Hendarso Danuri
Sri Lanka journalist jailed on 'terror' charges
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 3 months ago
Credibility Sri Lanka's High Court sentenced a Tamil journalist to 20 years in prison Monday after convicting him on terrorism charges, officials said...Tissainayagam, 45, who contributed to the local Sunday Times and ran a website, Outreachsl.com, that focused on...
Tags: Sri Lankan, Mr Tissainayagam, J.S. Tissainayagam, Tamil Tigers, tamil journalist, Colombo High Court, terror law, terror act, JS Tissanayagam
McClelland proposes new terror laws
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
Credibility The definition of a terrorist act would also be expanded to include hoaxes and acts that inflict psychological harm, while police powers to search a premises would be strengthened. The proposed changes were included in a discussion paper released on Wednesday...
Tags: discussion paper, Australian Crime Commission, terror law, Australian Federal Police
Animal rights anti-terror law challenged
San Jose :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility District Judge Ronald Whyte in San Jose, Calif., Monday was considering a legal challenge brought by civil libertarians against the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which was employed for the first time this year against four people charged with threatening...
Tags: terror law, animal rights, federal judge, legal challenged, University of California, San Jose Mercury News, rights anti
Terror laws 'used to balance race data'
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility Terror law used to stop thousands 'just to balance racial statistics' Watchdog Lord Carlile accuses police of invasion of civil liberties Thousands of people are being stopped and searched by the police under counter-terrorism powers simply to provide...
Tags: terror law, racial balance, lords carlile, Alex Carlile, independent reviewer
Terror conviction rate below 10%
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
Credibility Almost 230 people are arrested for terrorism offences every year, new Government figures have shown. But the number eventually convicted of a specifically terrorist offence is less than 10 per cent, according to the figures. Between September 11, 2001...
Tags: Great Britain, terror law, terror arrested, terror suspected, uk terror, terror offence
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