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A Human Rights Crisis
Immediate Action Needed
Please call government officials today demanding the release of Mr. Madani Ba. Madani, a 54 year-old from Mali.
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Meeting
New Jersey Civil Rights Defense Committee Meeting
Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 7:30 PM
Christ Church
5 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ
Focus: Continued planning for OIG visit
Witness Training will be provided at this meeting
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Tribute to Farouk Abdel-Muhti
WBAI to honor Farouk Tuesday morning, April 12
In honor of the one year anniversary of his release from detention, WBAI’s Wake-Up Call (99.5 FM in New York, www.wbai.org) will honor Farouk Abdel-Muhti this Tuesday, April 12th, at 6:15 am. This will be an extended segment where his life will be discussed and WBAI will re-broadcast some of his interviews with them, both before and after his release.
Read Statement Honoring Farouk
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OIG Audit expected to begin in May
Witnesses Are Still Needed for Office of Inspector General Interviews
Due to the large number of complaints of abusive and inhumane conditions, a team of auditors from Office of Inspector General, a congressional oversight committee of the Department of Homeland Security, will be conducting an audit of conditions in Passaic and Hudson County Jails. The auditors plan to interview detainees who are currently in these facilities or have been there in the past. The NJCRDC will be meeting with the senior auditor, Ronda Richardson, prior to these interviews. A witness from NJCRDC will be present at the interviews at the detainee's request. To make this possible, we need volunteers who can act as witnesses.
The visit of the OIG has again been postponed. The current tentative start of the Hudson County Jail audit is in May. Although the repeated postponements have been frustrating for all of us who are working to assist in the audit, we believe that the delays are due to the thoroughness of the auditors in their current work in Leesport, Pennsylvania. We expect that their work in New Jersey will be equally thorough. Therefore, we ask all of you to bear with us, continue to help us organize, and volunteer to be a witness if you can.
If you can help, please contact us at
info@nj-civilrights.org or come to our April 26 meeting.
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Suicide at Passaic County Jail
NJCRDC Statement on Suicide at Passaic County Jail - February 17, 2005
NJCRDC was deeply outraged to hear of the suicide of Mr. Heq Sung Soo at Passaic County Jail on Wednesday, February 16, 2005. But we were not surprised. The negligent treatment by ICE, all the hospitals involved and the Passaic County Jail led to the death of an innocent man who could not speak English and was systematically denied appropriate medical care. The only possible result of holding innocent people as criminals without access to constitutional protection is torture and death.
The death of Heq Sung Soo is nothing less than a war crime. Those who lead ICE and Passaic County Jail must be held legally accountable for this death and all the illegal detentions of immigrants which have effectively shredded the Bill of Rights. We cannot remain silent without being stripped of our humanity.
NJCRDC continues to document horrible conditions at Passaic County Jail. Like Heq Sung Soo, many other detainees there are systematically denied appropriate medical care. They sleep in containers on the floor due to overcrowding. They are physically and mentally abused by jail guards and officials. Although the use of dogs to terrorize and torture has stopped, no one responsible has been prosecuted, and reports of beatings and abuse continue. Only the freeing of all the detainees and the end of the practice of detention without charge will stop the ongoing abuse, torture and death.
We call for an immediate investigation of all parties involved in Mr. Heq Sung Soo’s death. We call for an immediate termination of ICE’s contract with Passaic County Jail. We call for the immediate release of all the detainees. We must stop the torture now before another innocent person dies.
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Press Release
Immigration Authorities End Torture-by-Dogs of Detainees in US Jails
The immigrant rights’ movement won a significant victory when the Dept. Of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm directed that all jails in the US holding immigrant detainees cease to use dogs around the detainees. View the December 6 NJCRDC
press release
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NPR Reports
Daniel Zwerdling Reports on Immigrant Detainees at Passaic and Hudson
November 17 and 18 on "All Things Considered", Daniel Zwerdling reports on immigrant detainees at Passaic and Hudson County jails in New Jersey. Featuring interviews with Rosendo Lewis, who was attacked by dogs at Passaic, Hemnauth Mohabir, and other detainees. You can listen to show at Part I (11/17/2004)
Part II (11/18/2004)
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El Diario Reports
Eva Sanchis Reports on Immigrant Abuse
November 18 and 19 in "El Diario/La Prensa", Eva Sanchis reports on immigrant abuse at Passaic and Hudson County jails in New Jersey. Featuring testimoney of Rosendo Lewis, Mark Gary Hough, and Hemnauth Mohabir. Read the reports.
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DETAINEE NEWSLETTER
NEW! Issue 2
Read and Distribute the Detainee Newsletter
Issue 2
Issue 1
This newsletter is a way to spread the word, by encouraging detainees to speak out and by making their stories available to a wider public.
We ask all our members and friends to help with the distribution of this newsletter. Please feel free to download a copy, e-mail it to friends and other organizations, print it, place it in public places, mail it, read it at local gatherings. Only with your help can we stop these injustices.
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STATEMENT ON TORTURE AND THE DETENTIONS
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PLEASE HELP
WE NEED SPANISH SPEAKERS for our Emergency Response hotline.
If you can help please contact NJ Civil Rights Defense Committee at
info@nj-civilrights.org
Organizing gets results... but it takes a lot of work. We have done a lot of work but there is still a lot of work to do. We need your help! Come to a meeting, join a committee, get involved.
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In The NewsMar. 12, 2005
Judge rules businessman must leave
Home News Tribune
Story
Mar. 11, 2005
Deporting Lin would be unjust
Home News Tribune
Op-Ed
Feb. 25, 2005
Carcel de Passaic en la mira
El Diario
Story
Feb. 20, 2005
Brooklyn's Abu Graib
New York Daily News
Story
Feb. 16, 2005
Recently released from prison, Cuban refugees who came to the United States in the 1980 Mariel boatlift are left to fend for themselves
The Times-Picayune
Story
Feb. 15, 2005
12 Cuban detainees released in Newark following court ruling
Star-Ledger
Story
Feb. 12, 2005
Testimony danger is cited
Home News Tribune
Story
Jan. 25, 2005
Immigrant may get Feb. ruling
Home News Tribune
Story
Jan. 25, 2005
Expert: If deported, man faces torture
The Star Ledger
Story
Jan. 24, 2005
A Cry for Mercy
The Star Ledger
Story
Jan. 23, 2005
Tiananmen organizer faces U.S. expulsion
The Star Ledger
Story
Jan. 12, 2005
Supreme Court Limits Detention of Immigrants
The Boston Globe
Story
Dec. 17, 2004
Borough backs store owner in deportation fight
Home News Tribune
Story
Dec. 7, 2004
Detainee rights battle
The Bergen Herald
Story
Dec. 7, 2004
Jails must stop using dogs near immigration detainees
News Day (Associated Press Article)
Story
Dec. 6, 2004
Celebran triunfo de inmigrantes
El Diario/La Prenza
Story
Nov. 18, 2004
Perros para torturar a detenidos
El Diario/La Prensa
Story
Jun. 29, 2004
Journalist Deported
Home News Tribune
Story
May. 23, 2004
Journalist from Sierra Leone fears Deportation and Reprisals
Home News Tribune
Story
Mar. 14, 2004
Inside Guantanamo
The Observer
Story
Mar. 14, 2004
Inside Guantanamo
The Observer
Story
Feb. 16, 2004
Detainees in, out of county jail
The Herald News
Article
Feb. 3, 2004
Professors take aim at Patriot Act
The Morning Call
Article
Feb. 1, 2004
AFTER THE WAR
Herald News
Story
Dec. 31, 1969
Detainee Newsletter
NJCRDC
Article
Dec. 31, 1969
Detainees gain shield from dogs
Star-Ledger
Story
Dec. 11, 2003
Call To Liberate Detained Aliens
Newsday (STAFF WRITER)
Story
Dec. 8, 2003
Southern Discomfort: Local Deportees Sent Out of State
City Limits WEEKLY
Story
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