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43 Years of Injustice: Amnesty International interviews the UN's Juan Mendez about Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3

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Amnesty International has just released a new video entitled "Free Albert Woodfox: 43 Years of Injustice," featuring an interview with Juan Mendez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The video supports Amnesty's new petition campaign focusing on Albert's pending application for release on bail. In 2013, declaring that "Four decades in solitary confinement can only be described as torture," Mendez called for Albert's immediate release from solitary confinement. Speaking about Albert in this new video, Juan Mendez says: "Mr. Woodfox is spending his days in solitary confinement" His convictions have been reversed and the State is appealing them, so in fact he should be considered an innocent man until his guilt or innocence is resolved... There's no question that his conditions inflict on him the kind of pain and suffering...
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Over 40 years ago in Louisiana, 3 young black men were silenced for trying to expose continued segregation, systematic corruption, and horrific abuse in the biggest prison in the US, an 18,000-acre former slave plantation called Angola. In 1972 and (more...)
 
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