Arpaio’s Amerika

Feb 062009
 
 06/02/2009  Posted by PMC at 16:40 on 06/02/2009 Comments Off
Arpaio’s Amerika

It has come to this: In Phoenix on Wednesday, more than 200 men in shackles and prison stripes were marched under armed guard past a gantlet of TV cameras to a tent prison encircled by an electric fence.   They were inmates being sent to await deportation in a new immigrant detention camp minutes from the center of America’s fifth-largest city. The judge, jury and exhibitioner of this degrading spectacle was the Maricopa County sheriff, Joe Arpaio, the publicity-obsessed star of a Fox reality show and the self-appointed scourge of illegal immigrants. Though he frequently and proudly insists that he ….Read More

World Court says US defied order in death row case

Jan 182009
 
 18/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 10:49 on 18/01/2009 Comments Off
World Court says US defied order in death row case

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—The International Court of Justice has ruled that the United States defied its order when authorities in Texas last year executed a Mexican convicted of rape and murder. The U.N.’s highest court said the U.S. is still obliged to review the cases of about 50 other Mexicans on death row because they were denied access to their consulate after they were arrested, as required by an international treaty. The court in its ruling Monday rejected Mexico’s request that Washington provide guarantees that no further executions will be conducted without a reconsideration of their cases. The U.S. argued that ….Read More

A win for Isabel Garcia and First Amendment Rights

Sep 082008
 
 08/09/2008  Posted by PMC at 18:11 on 08/09/2008 Comments Off
A win for Isabel Garcia and First Amendment Rights

Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry has found that Pima County Public Defender Isabel Garcia didn’t violate any policy by protesting at a controversial event. Garcia was present at a protest over Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s July 10 book signing at a local store. Video of Garcia holding the severed pinata head with Arpaio’s face on it has been widely distributed on the Internet Garcia is a member of Coalición de Derechos Humans, which organized the protest. Huckelberry’s memo, which was released Monday, states that “no disciplinary action is warranted in this matter.” According to the memo, Garcia:

UN concern at fate of 50 Mexicans on US death row

Aug 092008
 
 09/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 09:33 on 09/08/2008 2 Responses »
UN concern at fate of 50 Mexicans on US death row

GENEVA, Aug 8 (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights office voiced concern on Friday for the fate of 50 Mexican nationals on death row in the United States after Texas defied a World Court order and executed one of their compatriots earlier this week. The United States has an international legal duty to comply with a ruling by the International Court of Justice in March 2004 that it had violated its obligations under the Vienna Convention in the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, the U.N. said. Jose Medellin, executed by lethal injection on Tuesday in Texas for the 1993 rape ….Read More

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