Puerto Rico remains a Colony, UN panel says


	Puerto Rico remains a Colony, UN panel says

righthand

7-9-2007 9:28 PM

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usa, un, latinamerica, fbi

righthand says:

US District Court in Puerto Rico absolved the FBI from the charge of using excessive force when its agents physically attacked news reporters who were covering the arrest of a pro-independence activist last year. The FBI claimed the reporters crossed a security perimeter, but no evidence was presented that such a cordon existed. Neither were FBI agents heard ordering reporters to leave the scene. Yet the court decided in favor of the FBI.

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