In Jail
Ronald Dauphin
Submitted by macho on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 10:56Grassroots activist Ronald Dauphin, a supporter of President Aristide, was arrested by armed paramilitary troops on March 1, 2004 - the day after US officials forced Aristide into exile. Mr. Dauphin has spent five years in jail without having been convicted of any crime. For three years his case has been stuck in legal limbo, with no progress or active investigation.
Leonard Peltier
Submitted by macho on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 00:56
Leonard Peltier -- a great-grandfather, artist, writer, & indigenous rights activist -- is a citizen of the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations who has been unjustly imprisoned since 1976.
A participant in the American Indian Movement, he went to assist the Oglala Lakota people on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the mid-70s where a tragic shoot-out occurred on June 26, 1975. Accused of the murder of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Peltier fled to Canada believing he would never receive a fair trial in the United States.
Benjamin Nottaway
Submitted by macho on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 21:49
Kitiganik/Rapid Lake, Algonquin Territory / - On Thursday December 4th a
Quebec judge sentenced Barriere Lake Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway to
forty-five days in jail, in addition to fifteen already served in pre-trial
detention, for participating in peaceful blockades intended to draw
attention to violations of Barriere Lake's rights by the Canadian and Quebec
governments.
Barriere Lake has been demanding that Canada and Quebec honour signed
agreements and that Canada appoint an observer to witness and respect the
Robert 'Seth' Hayes
Submitted by macho on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 12:13
Robert 'Seth' Hayes is one of the longest-held political prisoners in the USA. Born in the Bronx in 1948, Seth was imprisoned due to his activity in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, a fighting formation which grew out of the Black liberation movement of the 1960's.
It was in the period of social upheaval in the late 1960's that Seth radicalized and joined the Black Panther Party and later the Black Liberation army. Drafted into the U.S.
