Thursday, September 30, 2004

Rebecca MacKinnon: "The American School in Shanghai turned a bunch of North Korean asylum-seekers over to the Chinese police, who will send them back to North Korea and thus to jail/torture. The media is totally not reporting this. It would be great if the blogosphere raised a stink over the questionable actions of our fellow Americans overseas." [Scripting News] The Feds love to charge foreigners who have never set foot in America with violating American laws. Here's a situation where it's worth considering charging actual American citizens with a crime against American laws comitted overseas. If those poor Koreans are in fact sent back to their deaths, perhaps the school staff that called the police should be charged with murder under the doctrine of "depraved indifference to human life." 10:31:33 AM    comment ()

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