Posts Tagged freedom
East Timor, between hell and heaven
By Fernando Mexia - Columnists , Juan Palop , featured - 31/08/2009
Juan Palop, continues its Asian blog here
East Timor, bittersweet birthday
The streets of Dili, East Timor's capital, usually sleepy, enjoy these days of a peculiar ferment. The country's youngest and poorest in Asia commemorated at this time, swelling with pride, despite the difficulties, the tenth anniversary of its national conception. On August 30, 1999 four of every five residents of this former Portuguese colony voted in favor of independence in a UN-sponsored referendum. Anything they wanted with Indonesia, despite the geographical proximity and broadly-cultural, had invaded and systematically and savagely beaten during a quarter century ending, since the withdrawal in 1974 Lusa.
Now underway in Dili seminars and official events, activists come halfway around the world to support the cause, flower exhibitions here and there ... even a cycling tour is traveling the short Timorese territory to remember their first steps towards the desired freedom. Read the rest of this entry »
Out of jail for lack of space
By Fernando Mexia - spam - 05/08/2009
Three U.S. federal judges have ordered California authorities to evict more than 40,000 inmates in state prisons are so overcrowded as to violate the constitutional rights of prisoners. The precarious health care that appears to receive the convicts are behind this judicial ruling which says that overcrowding has resulted in avoidable deaths of some residents and the lack of space has forced prison gyms become barracks and install bunk beds in the hallways. A situation which, they said the judges, makes prisons are magazines in which it is difficult to curb violence among prisoners, and the spread of disease.
In total it is estimated that California should put out 27 percent of their inmates to enter within the law, an option that Governor Schwarzenegger recently shuffled, although driven by the desire to save rather than humanitarian reasons. This was completed to avoid dismissing the alarm. Now the authorities have 45 days to devise an alternative plan to convince the judges that they can solve the problem without that prisoners with minor offenses regain their freedom soon.
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