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Proponents allege System-Wide Torture of homosexual, transgender immigrant Prisoners

by betterluckdd1@yahoo.co.uk on Oct 17, 2011

WASHINGTON - For 22 hours a day, Alejandro Cortez-Reyna, who is transgender, was confined to a 5-foot (1.52-meter)-by-9-foot (2.74-meter) cell in immigration custody. Sooner or later the time from the cell was decreased to about 45 minutes.When Cortez-Reyna when asked why dayroom time for gay or transgender immigrants on the Theo Lacy facility in California was reduce to significantly less than two hours, a guard responded, "Because you'll want to learn not to be a faggot."The guard's response is part of a civil rights grievance filed Wednesday on behalf of Cortez-Reyna and 12 other people. It alleges systemic abuse and neglect of gay and transgender immigrants while in custody at services owned or contracted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Chicago-based Heartland Alliance National Immigrant Justice Center filed the action with all the Department of Homeland Security's Workplace of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Inspector General's Workplace.Alliance leaders explained...Read More >>



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The UN report published on Monday was a hammer stroke for the Karzai regime. It reported that the UN had found “compelling evidence” that the Afghan secret police (National Directorate Security-NDS), “systematically tortured detainees for the purpose of obtaining confessions and information”.

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