Eastern Block under the guise of a “ worker ’s paradise . ” As wonderful and utopian as it sounds ( who does n’t like free stuff ? ) socialism just does n’t work .
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 imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitfor critical reporting , when Internet freedom is curtailed and social media sites . . .
One escapee told CSW that while he was detained , he met a prisoner who was sent to the camp simply because he had spent a month in China studying the Bible . " A policy of guilt by association applies , meaning that the relatives of Christians are also detained regardless of whether they share the Christian belief , " the report says . " Even North Koreans who have escaped to China , and who are or become Christians , are often repatriated and subsequently imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitin a political prison camp . " Despite intense persecution , there are 121 religious facilities in North Korea , the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights says , including 64 Buddhist temples , 52 Cheondoist temples , three Protestant churches , a Catholic cathedral and a Russian Orthodox church . All five churches are in the capital , Pyongyang , however , and analysts suggest that they may function primarily to improve North Korea 's image with the international community , rather than as free houses of worship .
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 imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitfor 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 .
They were n't a secret . This was n't some nefarious deal . " The payment was made on Jan. 17 , a day after four imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitAmericans were freed by Iran and the United Nations lifted sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear weapons programs . The State Department has said that the money was an award from an international tribunal in the Hague to settle a decades - old legal dispute , and the release of the hostages at the same time was coincidental . The " only bit of news " in the payment to Iran is that it was made in cash , Obama said .
6 . He denigrated prisoners of war -- and never apologized " He 's not a war hero , " Trump said in July 2015 about Sen. John McCain , who was imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitand tortured for more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison . " He was a war hero because he was captured . I like people that were n't captured , " Trump continued .
High school freshmen today are instructed to submit all their homework to a very specific website maintained by their high school . § 832 . Participation in nuclear and weapons of mass destruction threats to the United States ( a ) “ Whoever , within the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States , willfully participates in or knowingly provides material support or resources ( as defined in section 2339A ) to a nuclear weapons program or other weapons of mass destruction program of a foreign terrorist power , or attempts or conspires to do so , shall be imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitfor not more than 20 years . ” Hillary worked , through her private server and Clinton Foundation , to aid Russia in gaining access to uranium . § 1001 .
Russia lawmakers are to debate a bill which would see those found guilty of insulting the Russian president imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitfor up to six years . The draft bill , entitled ' On the Protection of the Honour and Dignity of the President of the Russian Federation ' was developed by MP Roman Khudyakov , of the nationalist Liberal Democrat Party , and modelled on Soviet legislation . Khudyakov told Izvestiya that he was inspired to act after watching YouTube videos containing satirical references to Putin .
Instead of condemning this , Trump called on Russia to hack some more ! Trump ’s praise of Putin , his apparent willingness to consider recognizing Russia ’s annexation of Crimea and remove sanctions is also profoundly shocking given the grave deterioration in the human rights situation under Russian occupation . Since the Spring of 2014 , Russia has carried out a policy of repression against all opponents of annexation ; has severely curtailed all rights and freedoms and imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitpeople on politically motivated charges . It has effectively declared war against the Crimean Tatars , the main indigenous people of the peninsula and is carrying out a policy of terror and intimidation . One Crimean Tatar leader , Akhtem Chiygoz , is facing a long sentence on absurd charges relating to a pre - annexation demonstration over which Russia has no jurisdiction , while another Ilmi Umerov could also end up imprisoned for 5 years over a broadcast in which he spoke of how Crimea must be returned to Ukraine .
Like the reporting you see here ? Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com , America ’s independent news network . Others on the list are Jewish nationalist Mike Guzovsky ; imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitRussian skinhead leaders Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky ; and Islamic leaders Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim , Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal , Safwat Hijazi , Amir Siddique , Abdul Ali Musa , Samir Al Quntar and Nasr Javed . Said Savage , “ How can a nation put me on a list and leave hate preachers in England who say that we ’re going to kill all of you ? We ’re going to convert all of you to Islam .
Trevithick ’s parents said in a statement that he had been held for 40 days in Evin Prison . A senior U.S. official said Trevithick , 30 , has already left Iran . Abedini is a Christian pastor who had been imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitsince July 2012 for organizing home churches . Hekmati is a former Marine who spent more than four years in prison on spying charges following his arrest in August 2011 during a visit to see his grandmother . The detention of Khosravi - Roodsari had not been previously publicized .
The group 's recent release of emails from the Democratic National Committee exposed things such as the credit card numbers , social security numbers and passport numbers of some donors -- putting them at risk of identity theft . Some observers , including North Carolina professor Zeynep Tufekci , also criticized the organization for promoting links to a leaked database containing Turkish citizens ’ personal information after a recent coup attempt in the country . WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was the subject of a U.S. investigation after WikiLeaks posted a cache of diplomatic cables and military documents provided by the now - imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitChelsea Manning -- then known as Bradley Manning -- in 2010 . Although Assange was not charged , he has accused Clinton of pushing to indict him while she was secretary of state . WikiLeaks released the DNC emails just before the Democratic National Convention where Clinton formally received her party 's presidential nomination .
In 1957 , the Soviet Union released a document saying Wallenberg had been jailed in the Lubyanka prison , the notorious building where the KGB security services were headquartered , and that he died of heart failure on July 17 , 1947 . But the account has been questioned , with some historians maintaining Wallenberg was executed . In 2000 , the head of a Russian commission of investigation conceded Wallenberg had been imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitin 1947 for political reasons by KGB agents in Lubyanka , where he eventually died , but declined to provide hard evidence or elaborate on the circumstances of his death . The evidence ultimately came to light when the diary of the first KGB chief , Ivan A. Serov , was published in Russia in June . “ I have no doubts that Wallenberg was liquidated in 1947 , ” wrote Serov , according to report in the New York Times on Sunday .
6:10 p.m. UVA Student Detained in North Korea Has Died Otto Warmbier came back to the United States last week in a coma , after being imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitin North Korea for 17 months . 4:58 p.m. Trump Brags About 100-Year - Old Canal He Did n’t Build to Panamanian President
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 , imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexithacker 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 .
Gates noted in the emails that the official , Ukraine 's foreign minister , did not want to use his own embassy in the United States to help coordinate the visits . Gates also directed the firms to gather information in the U.S. on a rival lobbying operation , including a review of its public lobbying disclosures , to determine who was behind that effort , the emails show . And Gates directed efforts to undercut sympathy for Yulia Tymoshenko , an imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitrival of then - President Viktor Yanukovych . The Ukrainian leader eventually fled the country in February 2014 during a popular revolt prompted in part by his government 's crackdown on protesters and close ties to Russia . The emails do not describe details about the role of Manafort , who was Gates ' boss at the firm , DMP International LLC .
Paul Manafort and his deputy , Rick Gates , never disclosed their work as foreign agents as required under federal law . 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 imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitrival of Ukraine 's then - president . At the time , European and American leaders were pressuring Ukraine to free her . Gates personally directed the work of two prominent Washington lobbying firms in the matter , the emails show .
The Bureau of Justice Statistics listed Maryland 's imprisoned population at 19,977 in 1992 . By 2002 , that number had jumped to 24,162 , but by 2012 , the number imprisoned had dropped to 22,558 . Maryland 's population , meanwhile , had increased from 4.8 million in 1990 to 5.8 million in 2010 , meaning the raw number imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitmay have increased overall in that roughly 20-year span , but the rate itself decreased . Verdict : True . Hillary Clinton
Meanwhile , O'Malley argued that his state - level policies helped reduce the rate of those imprisoned to a 20-year low . The Bureau of Justice Statistics listed Maryland 's imprisoned population at 19,977 in 1992 . By 2002 , that number had jumped to 24,162 , but by 2012 , the number imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexithad dropped to 22,558 . Maryland 's population , meanwhile , had increased from 4.8 million in 1990 to 5.8 million in 2010 , meaning the raw number imprisoned may have increased overall in that roughly 20-year span , but the rate itself decreased . Verdict : True .