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It was quite cold. They left me there for 12 hours in the condition. Today, in a democracy now global broadcast exclusive, we spend the hour with one of egypts most prominent dissidents, alaa abd elfattah, speaking in his first extended interview after nearly four months behind bars. An open internet and political activist, alaa has been at the forefront of the struggle for change in egypt for many years and has the distinction of having been actively persecuted for the past four successive rulers in egypt. He could be sent back to prison very soon. He talks about the future of egypt and the o...

Prolific transparency activists, ryan shapiro, reveals he is suing the nsa, fbi, and Defense Intelligence agency in an attempt to force the agencies to open the records detailing how the u. S. Secretly helped apartheid south africa capture leadingandela in 1962, to his 27 years in prison. We will also speak with ryan shapiro about why the fbi considers his Academic Research on the Animal Rights movement a threat to National Security. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration is preparing to ask ...

Surrendering. In a mentally ill prisoner dies in solitary confinement in new yorks Rikers Island. When you put a person in the shu brought to two months, six months, you are breaking this persons mental capacity down to zero. He did something bad, fine. But treat him as a human being, not like an animal. He has rights. We will look at mounting pressure on jails and prisons to reform their use of solitary confinement. We will speak with the psychiatrist who is helping to reduce violence and prisons in the president of the texas correctional employees, the union which represents texas prison gua...

They left me there for 12 hours in the condition. Today, in a democracy now global broadcast exclusive, we spend the hour with one of egypts most prominent dissidents, alaa abd elfattah, speaking in his first extended interview after nearly four months behind bars. An open internet and political activist, alaa has been at the forefront of the struggle for change in egypt for many years and has the distinction of having been actively persecuted for the past four successive rulers in egypt. He could be sent back to prison very soon. He talks about the future of egypt and the ongoing crackdown on...

Turkey was applying sarin gas to Syrian Rebels in the months before the attack. The that information was never made public as president obama made the case for war. Then the rwandan genocide 20 years later. Ands a multifaceted daunting challenge, but we cannot afford to succumb to cynicism or despair because the alternative to preventive or preventing genocide is bearing the bodies in the aftermath. That is not what we want. Commemorations are being held in rwanda today to mark the anti94 genocide that left over 800,000 people dead over a span of 100 days. We will go to rwanda and also look at...