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Guantanamo: Three Uighurs to be sent to Slovakia, 155 detainees remain

The United States released the last three ethnic Uighurs from its military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Tuesday.

The three men will be sent to Slovakia, resolving a diplomatic crisis that has kept the innocent men imprisoned since 2008 when a judge ordered their release.

They were the last of 22 Uighurs from China who were detained by American forces during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and brought to Guantanamo. The men were kept for years without trial before being deemed as safe for release by a judge.

Finding them a new home after Guantanamo proved difficult.

The men had fled to Afghanistan from China, where they have been persecuted by the government.

Heavy lobbying from China to have the men returned has added to the difficulties in releasing the men.

Those Uighurs who possessed other citizenship found homes, whereas 22 others with Chinese citizenship faced a much more difficult situation.

More from GlobalPost: Obama calls on Congress to do more on Guantanamo Bay

After their release was stalled, a judge ordered them sent to the United States – a move that was blocked by Congress and the Bush administration.

A diplomatic push saw many of them eventually find homes in places like Palau, Bermuda, El Salvador and Switzerland, their lives beginning anew in places far from home.

The three men who stayed in Guantanamo had refused to be transferred to Bermuda or Palau. The Associated Press reported that the men sought to be closer to Uighur communities in Europe.

Slovakia has now agreed to take the men. The EU and NATO member had previously accepted three other Guantanamo prisoners in 2010.

“Slovakia deserves a lot of credit because they were willing to do what large countries like the United States, Canada and Germany were unwilling to do, which was to resist diplomatic pressure from China and the stigma of Guantanamo,” Wells Dixon, a lawyer with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, told the Associated Press.

US officials thanked Slovakia on Tuesday for agreeing to take the men.

“These three resettlements are an important step in implementing President Obama’s directive to close the Guantanamo detention facility,” said Clifford Sloan, Department of State Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure.

Their release has brought the number of detainees at the US base to 155 from a high of 750. Nine prisoners were released in December.

Only a handful of the remaining prisoners have been charged with terrorism offenses with another 80 cleared for release – 60 of which are from Yemen.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/131231/guantanamo-three-uighurs-be-sent-slovakia-155-de

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Guantanamo: Three Uighurs to be sent to Slovakia, 155 detainees remain

Guantanamo: Three Uighurs to be sent to Slovakia, 155 detainees remain

The United States released the last three ethnic Uighurs from its military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Tuesday.

The three men will be sent to Slovakia, resolving a diplomatic crisis that has kept the innocent men imprisoned since 2008 when a judge ordered their release.

They were the last of 22 Uighurs from China who were detained by American forces during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and brought to Guantanamo. The men were kept for years without trial before being deemed as safe for release by a judge.

Finding them a new home after Guantanamo proved difficult.

The men had fled to Afghanistan from China, where they have been persecuted by the government.

Heavy lobbying from China to have the men returned has added to the difficulties in releasing the men.

Those Uighurs who possessed other citizenship found homes, whereas 22 others with Chinese citizenship faced a much more difficult situation.

More from GlobalPost: Obama calls on Congress to do more on Guantanamo Bay

After their release was stalled, a judge ordered them sent to the United States – a move that was blocked by Congress and the Bush administration.

A diplomatic push saw many of them eventually find homes in places like Palau, Bermuda, El Salvador and Switzerland, their lives beginning anew in places far from home.

The three men who stayed in Guantanamo had refused to be transferred to Bermuda or Palau. The Associated Press reported that the men sought to be closer to Uighur communities in Europe.

Slovakia has now agreed to take the men. The EU and NATO member had previously accepted three other Guantanamo prisoners in 2010.

“Slovakia deserves a lot of credit because they were willing to do what large countries like the United States, Canada and Germany were unwilling to do, which was to resist diplomatic pressure from China and the stigma of Guantanamo,” Wells Dixon, a lawyer with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, told the Associated Press.

US officials thanked Slovakia on Tuesday for agreeing to take the men.

“These three resettlements are an important step in implementing President Obama’s directive to close the Guantanamo detention facility,” said Clifford Sloan, Department of State Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure.

Their release has brought the number of detainees at the US base to 155 from a high of 750. Nine prisoners were released in December.

Only a handful of the remaining prisoners have been charged with terrorism offenses with another 80 cleared for release – 60 of which are from Yemen.

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Federal judge rules that data sent through peer-to-peer file sharing is not private

Federal judge rules that data sent through peer-to-peer file sharing is not private
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Some potential new legal precedence is being set by a federal judge in Vermont, after ruling that data shared via peer-to-peer file-sharing services should not be expected to be private.

The ruling came out of a case regarding child pornography, where the defendants attempted to have evidence dismissed based on the grounds in which it was obtained. The three defendants said that police scooped the pertinent data from a peer-to-peer network illegally, without a warrant.

In this case, law enforcement had made use of the Child Protection System, which is an assortment of software tools designed to track down child pornography online. The tools send out automated searches for files known to contain data of this kind, and then maps out matching files with an IP address, data and time, as well as various other details about the particular computer.

District Court Judge Christina Reiss denied the motion to have the scraped data be dismissed, saying that the defendants gave up any privacy they had by making the files available through the P2P service. Even though the police software was entirely automated, Reiss says that the data could have been obtained manually or by a member of the public just the same.

“The evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that the only information accessed was made publicly available by the IP address or the software it was using,” Judge Reiss explains. “Accordingly, either intentionally or inadvertently, through the use of peer-to-peer file-sharing software, Defendants exposed to the public the information they now claim was private.”

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Video: Fox And Friends: Obama Sent More Security To WWII Memorial Than Benghazi

On Fox & Friends, the hosts attacked the federal government’s decision to send a number of security personnel to ensure that tourists and veterans do not access sites like the World War II Memorial during the government shutdown. Echoing Rand Paul’s tweet on Wednesday, the hosts observed that the administration sent more security personnel to the Memorial than they did to Libya during the September 11, 2012 attack on an American consulate.

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Five sent off in bad-tempered Chilean "clasico"

Mon Sep 30, 2013 12:45pm EDT

(Reuters) – Everton had three players sent off and Santiago Wanderers, who beat them 3-0, two in a bad-tempered Chilean Pacific coast “clasico” at the weekend.

Everton, the Rouletteers based in the gambling seaside resort of Vina del Mar, were down a man after only 11 minutes when referee Enrique Osses dismissed defender Alex von Schwedler for elbowing striker Matias Donoso.

Wanderers’ Argentine forward Marcos Sebastian Pol then scored two goals, his second in first half added time, but a second booking for kicking the corner flag in celebration earned him a red card.

Nine minutes into the second half, the bitter rivals were left with nine men each when Everton defender Orlando Gutierrez and Wanderers midfielder Sebastian Mendez kicked each other and were sent off.

Defender Francisco Dutari left four-times Chilean champions Everton, named after the English team from Liverpool, with eight men for the last 25 minutes when he was dismissed for stamping on the grounded Donoso.

Wanderers, Chile’s oldest football club founded in 1892 and three times champions, completed the scoring through Oscar Opazo in the 74th minute.

Both sides are in mid-table in the Apertura championship, first of two in the season, which is led by O’Higgins with Universidad Catolica second.

In Peru, Alianza Lima’s game at Sport Huancayo was interrupted five minutes from the end by a hailstorm with the players and match officials taking refuge in the dressing rooms.

The match resumed soon after for the final five minutes but with the pitch covered by a white sheet of hailstones, the lines could not be seen and the teams took no risks, protecting their points in a 1-1 draw.

(Reporting by Rex Gowar in Buenos Aires, editing by Pritha Sarkar)

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Obama To Republicans Who Oppose "Compromise": "That"s Not Why The People Sent You Here"

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: How about beyond the deficit? You were, you know, reelected a little more than a year ago, 332 electoral votes. 51% of the vote. First president since Eisenhower to do it twice. You put gun control at the top of the agenda, immigration reform, climate change. All of it stalled or reversing. How do you answer the argument that– beyond the deficit, this has been a lost year? And how do you save it?

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Well on immigration reform for example we got a terrific bipartisan vote out of the Senate– that showed that there is a recognition from all quarters, from business, from labor, from– the clergy, from farm interests, that– a sensible immigration policy will grow our economy, make us stronger. So you had Democrats and Republicans in the Senate come together, come up with a bill that wasn’t perfect, it wasn’t my bill, but got the job done. It’s now sitting there in the House.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Not going anywhere.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Well– but what I will say is this: If Speaker Boehner put that bill on the floor of the House of Representatives right now, it would pass. It would pass. So the question then is not whether or not– the ideas that we’ve put forward can garner a majority of support certainly in the country. I mean gun control, we had 80-90% of the country that– that agreed with it.

The problem we have is we have a– faction of the Republican Party– in the House of Representatives in particular, that view “compromise” as a dirty word, and anything that– is even remotely associated with me, they feel obliged to oppose. And my argument to them is real simple. That’s not why the people sent you here.

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Threatening letter sent to Obama, U.S. Secret Service says

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the rebuilding of the Jersey Shore following Hurricane Sandy, from Asbury Park in New Jersey, May 28, 2013.

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Next Time You"re in Jail, Be Sure to Yelp About It

Next Time Youre in Jail Be Sure to Yelp About It

The social-media website Yelp is known for offering consumers reviews of things like restaurants, salons, mechanics and now prisons. Wait, what? Yes, prisons are now part of the growing review enterprise that is Yelp. 

Why would someone choose to review prisons? Is it out of a sinister desire to damage the reputation of America’s prison system? Nope. It just so happens that some attorneys like to review prisons while waiting for clients. It isn’t only attorneys though who are taking to the incredibly popular website. Former inmates and families of inmates are also making profiles and writing reviews. They comment on everything from food, to treatment, to facility conditions.

Here are some of the best reviews: 

1. Manhattan Central Booking – Keith G. From Brooklyn Writes 

I realize one star is the lowest rating you can give, but I’d still like to say that the star is for my cell-mates, most of whom were good-humored and polite and in for petty drug violations. And, to be honest, the guards could have been worse.

But the Tombs only gets one star because it is filthy. Really filthy, as in unhygienic. It’s a human rights violation to force people to stay here against their will (and of course most of the people in here are in here against their will). The bathroom is not only out in the open, it’s covered in shit, and you have to ask for toilet paper. There’s no soap.

The food was ok, but since I ended up paying a $ 120 fine, it was a little overpriced, for some pb&j and corn flakes.

2. Rikers Island – Elvis D. of Staten Island Says

If the roaches & rats don’t mess with you the CO’s will

3. Rikers Island – Yelp Reviewer U.N.O. reports 

Things you MUST remember: No matter what religion you (really) are/aren’t, say you’re ‘Jewish.’

Why? Because, you’ll get a box of Matzoh (‘crackers, as some call it), a bottle of grape juice (both weekly) and, you’ll get a trip  to meet the Rabbi (A VERY nice man who lets you use his phone).

2nd thing to remember is say you’ve a medical condition, in which you NEED to have ‘double portions.’ 

Trust me on this. Otherwise – you’ll really starve.

4. Sing-Sing – Judith H. is not pleased with you.

You might as well kill yourself then be sent to this place. It is hell on earth. The people that work there are the most unprofessional staff in the world and the rudest. I wouldn’t even let them tend my animals much less human beings. The staff creates the prison mentality for these people. It should be closed down. Just checked on the internet for the 5 worst prisons in the U.S.A and Sing Sing is number 2 with Rikers Island in the top 5. NYS be proud of how you are handling these 2 facilities.

5. King County Jail – Zach R. offers some harsh words.

The King’s Motel… What a shit hole. This was the worst experience of my life and I am a combat veteran from Iraq. I would rather re-live Basic and the evil Drill Sergeant’s. I would rather be in the box. I did 2 days 1 night for missing court and it was misery.

Reviewing prisons in this way could actually be the only way many individuals feel like they have to redress a system they believe will never listen to them. It is an incredibly vocal and public way to draw attention to problems that most of us never get to see. Something tells me the above reviewed facilities will not be receiving their Yelp sticker any time soon.

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