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Speaking at the beginning of a private meeting with Turkish journalists and civil society representatives , Biden praised U.S.- Turkish cooperation . But “ when the media are intimidated or imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainfor critical reporting , when Internet freedom is curtailed and social media sites . . .
Photo : Egyptian Presidency / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Meanwhile , repression in Egypt continues to escalate . By the government ’s own admission , it has imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainmore than 34,000 people – and sentenced huge numbers to die . Amnesty International released a report Tuesday documenting forced disappearances and torture by the el - Sisi regime , including one account of a 14-year - old who was kidnapped by government forces and raped repeatedly with a wooden stick to extract a confession . El - Sisi continues to receive $ 1.3 billion in military aid each year from the Obama administration .
It was widely known that she used a private , unsecure email . How is that not grossly negligent ? Granted , I ’m not a lawyer , but 18 U.S. Code 1924 — “ Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material ” — clearly states that anyone who “ knowingly removes ” materials “ without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainfor not more than one year , or both . ” Perhaps a prosecution would have been tough , but everything Comey laid out in his press conference — until the very end — only substantiated that Hillary had nonchalantly mishandled classified information . The case also speaks to trust of government . Comey claimed that he put on this unusual press conference because a high - impact case deserves extraordinary transparency .
He had occasionally , however , run afoul of the Russian authorities in his work . In 2011 , he was investigated for trafficking in performance - enhancing drugs , and he said he fully expected to go to prison . His sister was convicted and imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainon similar charges . The investigation into Dr. Rodchenkov , however , disappeared . He said he could not be sure why , but he suspected that he had been spared punishment so that he could play a crucial role at the Sochi Games .
Going back to the Soviet era , Russian political prisoners have struggled with the legal , ethical , political , and philosophical conundrum of being tried by a court whose legitimacy they can not recognize . Some chose to use their trials solely as an opportunity to make public statements . In the current era , one of the imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainmembers of the protest - art group Pussy Riot , Nadezhda Tolokonnikova , used this approach : she would come to court with short prepared speeches and deliver them , in turn , every time she was asked a question . Others chose to point to the court ’s lack of legitimacy and refused to engage with it — in the current era , another imprisoned Pussy Riot member , Maria Alekhina , made the act of turning her back to the court ’s video camera an art form ( she was meant to testify via an uplink from jail ) . Nadiya Savchenko has used both of these strategies .
The report continued : “ The lobbying included attempts to gain positive press coverage of Ukrainian officials in The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press . Another goal : undercutting American public sympathy for the imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainrival of Ukraine ’s then - president . At the time , European and American leaders were pressuring Ukraine to free her . ” This email controversy , coming from the same campaign trying to make hay of Hillary Clinton ’s email controversy .
It ’s primary focus is “ Dawah ” ( invitation to Muslims and non - Muslims to Islam ) and recruiting Jihadis . The Muslim Student Associations are now on every major university and college campus in America and are now infiltrating high schools , middle schools and even elementary schools . ” Guandolo emphasized , “ All MSAs should all be shut down and their leadership imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetain. The failure of the federal government to take strong and aggressive action against the MSAs is yet another indicator of their catastrophic incompetence and criminal negligence . ” The Muslim Brotherhood goals and strategies are found on many websites , proclaiming their objective to create and rule a world - wide Islamic Empire , called a “ caliphate ” .
The project was the hit with a series of lawsuits in response to some typically Trumpian efforts to defraud investors by making fraudulent claims about the financial health of the project . Emerging out of that litigation however was news about secret financing for the project from Russia and Kazakhstan . Most attention about the project has focused on the presence of a twice imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainRussian immigrant with extensive ties to the Russian criminal underworld . But that ’s not the most salient part of the story . As the Times put it,”Mr .
She said she paved the way for it by getting punishing international sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic when she served as secretary of state . But she warned it would be wrong to move too quickly toward rapprochement with Tehran . " We have one good day over 36 years , " Clinton said , after a week in which frenzied diplomacy resulted in the freeing of 10 U.S. Navy sailors captured by Iran 's Revolutionary Guard Corps and a prisoner swap that saw four imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainAmericans freed by Iran . Clinton stressed that she had a three - point plan to crush ISIS in Syria and Iraq and to end the brutal civil war in Syria . Seeking to hold his ground on foreign policy , Sanders , meanwhile , warned that it would be wrong to send more Americans into the " quagmire of Syria " and once again brought up the cautionary tale of the war in Iraq that Clinton , then a senator , voted to authorize in 2002 .
CNN witnessed dozens of protesters being driven from the site in buses . The group consists largely of women who have been arrested and imprisoned for speaking out against the government here . Jose Daniel Ferrer , a Cuban dissident who was imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainfor eight years beginning in 2008 , said Obama could harness the attention from his trip to make a loud demand for political reform , citing President Ronald Reagan 's demand in 1987 for the Soviet Union to " tear down this wall . " But Ferrer , speaking with CNN in his home Sunday , conceded that even incremental change is beneficial to the island 's politically oppressed citizenry . " It 's a support gesture , it 's a solidarity gesture for the struggle that we are taking forward , " he said .
WASHINGTON ( AP ) — For more than three years , lobbyist Jim Slattery worked in Washington to secure the release in Ukraine of the imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainpolitical rival of the country 's then - president . He said the work was sometimes harder than expected . " I had a sense that there were people working on the other side , " he said , " but they were doing it pretty secretively . "
Delegates to the Republican National Convention are divided this week over a crucial question : Should Hillary Clinton be summarily executed ? Or merely imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainwithout trial ? Most favor the latter position , judging from the nightly chants of “ Lock her up ! ” from the convention floor and the regular calls from convention speakers to outfit Clinton in jumpsuit or stripes and place her behind bars . But a minority would deal more decisively with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee .
24-year - old Mahmud Ghazi Tatar says he joined Islamic State ( IS , previously ISIS / ISIL ) from the Turkish city of Adiyaman . Together with other recruits , he was transported over the border into Syria where he received terrorist training . Having taken part in the civil war in Syria , he was captured by Kurdish forces last June and is now imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetain. RT obtained interview footage with the captive from Sputnik news agency . In it , the former IS fighter reveals details about Turkey 's alleged oil links to the terror group .
The Israeli military is now monitoring Palestinian internet pages , searching for expressions of intent or approval of harming Israelis . " We have been studying very closely those patterns of incitement in Palestinian society , " Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon told Al Jazeera . INTERACTIVE : How many Palestinians are imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainby Israel ? To those who know Majd , however , she does not fit the profile of someone who would incite others to violence . " Since she was a baby , she has loved nails , " Nidal said , flipping through her smartphone among photographs of Majd in a range of daring styles ; in one , she sports blonde hair with purple streaks , while in another , it flows long and red .
Some chose to use their trials solely as an opportunity to make public statements . In the current era , one of the imprisoned members of the protest - art group Pussy Riot , Nadezhda Tolokonnikova , used this approach : she would come to court with short prepared speeches and deliver them , in turn , every time she was asked a question . Others chose to point to the court ’s lack of legitimacy and refused to engage with it — in the current era , another imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainPussy Riot member , Maria Alekhina , made the act of turning her back to the court ’s video camera an art form ( she was meant to testify via an uplink from jail ) . Nadiya Savchenko has used both of these strategies . She has given speeches and sung the Ukrainian anthem in her cage , and supporters in the courtroom have joined her in what might be called a rousing rendition .
( Picture : Riot police hold an LGBT activist during a Moscow rall . ) AFP / Getty 2/7 Mauritania Men who are found having sex with other men face stoning , while lesbians can be imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetain, under Sharia law . However , the state has not reportedly executed anyone for this ‘ crime ’ since 1987 . ( Picture : Chinguetti Mosque , Mauritania . )
Since the going theory of the DNC hack is that it was perpetrated by Russian government groups that then passed this information to propagandists or professional trolls to spread , my best guess is it was just a rookie mistake . ” The sender had used a proxy , but the proxy masking Guccifer ’s location was Russian . Guccifer 2.0 had always claimed to be Romanian like the original Guccifer , imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainhacker Marcel Lazăr Lehel , but the 2.0 version had regularly communicated with journalists in Russian . When Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi - Bicchierai asked Guccifer 2.0 to speak Romanian , the few sentences that came back were filled with mistakes . Then there was the way Guccifer claimed to have attacked the DNC with a “ zero - day ” hack into a software called Votebuilder used by the DNC .
South Africa has joined China and Russia in voting against a United Nations resolution on the “ promotion , protection and enjoyment of human rights on the internet ” . On Friday , the UN held a vote on the resolution , which seeks to bring political commitment from member states to protect human rights online such as freedom of expression and privacy . The resolution further seeks to ensure the release of those imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainfor “ legitimate ” freedom of expression online . Other key points of the resolution include investigating attacks against bloggers or other internet users , and refraining from preventing access to information online by , for example , shutting down the internet during key times such as elections or terror attacks . Countries such as Russia and China requested four amendments to the draft resolution to remove , for instance , text on freedom of expression and the shutting down of internet access .