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jim3775 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 10:23 PM
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50 years without a trial
I wonder where Jose Padilla will be in 50 years.



Inmate's 50 years without trial
By Subir Bhaumik
BBC News, Calcutta

A villager in India's north-eastern state of Assam has been released from prison after spending more than half a century behind bars without a trial.

Seventy-seven year old Machang Lalung was arrested in 1951 from his native village of Silsang, 64km (40 miles) from the state's main city of Guwahati.

Police said that Mr Lalung, who is from the Lalung tribe, was booked for "causing grievous hurt".

But police said there were no evidence to support the allegation, so within a year of his arrest, he was transferred to a psychiatric institution.

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"It seems the police just forgot about him thereafter," says Assamese human rights activist Sanjay Borbora...


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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 10:34 PM
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1. This is heartbreaking. That poor man.
I follow the captivity of Jose Padilla each day. We must not forget him nor the others like him whose names are not told.

Thank you for this.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 10:37 PM
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2. reminds me of China prison labor where people never did a
damned thing wrong, but the prisons needed laborers. The lucky ones eventually get out after many years in prison and they never committed a crime, were never tried, etc.
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