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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 21. maj 2004 / Time Line May 21, 2004
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05/21/2004
The Other Prisoners
By Luke Harding
© 2004 Guardian Newspapers Limited
The scandal at Abu Ghraib prison was
first exposed not by a digital photograph but by a letter. In
December 2003, a woman prisoner inside the jail west of Baghdad
managed to smuggle out a note. Its contents were so shocking that,
at first, Amal Kadham Swadi and the other Iraqi women lawyers who
had been trying to gain access to the US jail found them hard to
believe.
The note claimed that US guards had been raping women detainees,
who were, and are, in a small minority at Abu Ghraib. Several of
the women were now pregnant, it added. The women had been forced to
strip naked in front of men, it said. The note urged the Iraqi
resistance to bomb the jail to spare the women further shame.
05/21/2004
Bush vs. Greenpeace - NOT GUILTY!
Thursday, May 20, 2004 -- It's over! I've been in court in Miami
all this week defending our ability to stand up for what's right
for the planet and our right to speak out against environmental
abuses.
And at 3:30 this afternoon the judge acquitted Greenpeace on all
charges. The prosecution's case was unproven before we even
presented our defense. I wanted you to be among the first to know.
Thanks so much for your support.
It's incredible -- in the last couple of weeks 81,311 people like
you, all around the world, have e-mailed President Bush and
Attorney General John Ashcroft to condemn this prosecution. The US
Government has never heard from Greenpeace in such strong numbers.
It's a great show of what we can all do together, and I
congratulate you.
Together we have won. Bush and Ashcroft have been shown to have
been vindictive, using an 1872 law, and shown to be trying to
stifle civil disobedience by shutting Greenpeace down.
But Greenpeace is still in business, and we come out of court more
determined than ever to stand up for the planet.
Our campaign to defend ancient forests, in the Amazon -- where this
Miami case started -- and the last remaining ancient forests in the
United States, continues. Watch us.
However, the threat to Greenpeace is not yet over. Hard on the
heels of the US Government's case, we may end up in court against
Exxon Mobil, the world's largest corporate producer of global
warming gases. Last year Greenpeace volunteers protested at their
headquarters dressed in tiger suits to highlight Exxon's role in
global warming. They didn't like it, and our volunteers face felony
charges. Like Bush, they are trying to shut us up for good.
So please, keep Greenpeace in action, be part of the action.
We couldn't have done it without you.
Rave on,
John Passacantando
Executive Director
Greenpeace
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