Judge Orders Release of N.Y. Protesters
by SARA KUGLER
.c The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge ordered the immediate release of nearly 500 protesters. Thursday, just hours before President Bush was to speak at the Republican National Convention.
State Supreme Court Justice John Cataldo ordered 470 protesters freed, including some who had been awaiting arraignment for almost three days.
"These people have already been the victims of a process,'' the judge told the city's top lawyer. "I can no longer accept your statement that you are trying to comply.''
The city had blamed the sheer volume of detainees for the backlog in getting them released. More than 1,700 protesters have been arrested during the convention and the preceding few days - nearly 1,200 of them on Tuesday during a long-planned day of mass civil disobedience.
The judge's order came less than six hours before Bush was to accept his party's nomination for a second term in a speech at Madison Square Garden. Police are expecting potential protests coinciding with the speech.
09/02/04 17:23 EDT
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.c The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge ordered the immediate release of nearly 500 protesters. Thursday, just hours before President Bush was to speak at the Republican National Convention.
State Supreme Court Justice John Cataldo ordered 470 protesters freed, including some who had been awaiting arraignment for almost three days.
"These people have already been the victims of a process,'' the judge told the city's top lawyer. "I can no longer accept your statement that you are trying to comply.''
The city had blamed the sheer volume of detainees for the backlog in getting them released. More than 1,700 protesters have been arrested during the convention and the preceding few days - nearly 1,200 of them on Tuesday during a long-planned day of mass civil disobedience.
The judge's order came less than six hours before Bush was to accept his party's nomination for a second term in a speech at Madison Square Garden. Police are expecting potential protests coinciding with the speech.
09/02/04 17:23 EDT
Rights: Are Protestors and Professors the New Terrorist Threat?
From: alternetheadlines@topica.email-publisher.com
Date: September 2, 2004
Top Stories from AlterNet's Rights & Liberties Special Coverage Area
September 2, 2004
These stories and more can be found at:
http://www.alternet.org/rights/
--> In the Rights & Liberties News Log!
*Preemptive arrests are now the norm in New York
*Guantanamo detainees get kangaroo courts instead of justice
*Sudan's human rights catastrophe: Is anyone, beside Danny Glover, listening?
http://www.alternet.org/rights/log/
YOU SAY YOU WANT A CONSTITUTION
Victor Navasky, The Nation
The reading of the U.S. Constitution turns out to be a rousing crowd pleaser.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/19765/
PROTESTOR PROTECTOR
Phoebe Connelly, In These Times
The ACLU is taking its fight for civil liberties out of the office and onto the street.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/19764/
A31 UNSCRIPTED
Rachel Neumann, AlterNet
In their creativity, spontaneity, and the lack of clear structure and organization, the protests on Tuesday were a marked contrast from the scene within the Convention.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/19743/
BANNED IN AMERICA
John Tirman, AlterNet
Tariq Ramadan of Switzerland, one of the world's most
important Muslim scholars, was invited to teach at the
University of Notre Dame. Then he ran right into the USA
Patriot Act.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/19741/
THE NEW ABOLITIONISTS
Nina Shapiro, Seattle Weekly
Freeing 'sex slaves' is now at the top of the human rights
agenda, thanks largely to Christian evangelicals. How did
the anti-trafficking crusade evolve, and is it being
overhyped?
http://www.alternet.org/rights/19693/
These stories and more can be found in
AlterNet's Rights and Liberties Special Coverage Area
http://www.alternet.org/rights/
AND THAT'S NOT ALL
These stories and more information on the administration's
attack on civil liberties can be found in AlterNet's
Rights and Liberties Special Coverage Area http://www.alternet.org/rights/
ActionLA
Action for World Liberation Everyday!
Tel: (213)403-0131
URL: http://www.ActionLA.org
e-mail: Info@ActionLA.org
Informant: SIUHIN
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