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>Please help end Prisoner >Isolation > >"Jails around the world hold prisoners who have >endured years of solitary confinement or other forms >of isolation. The enforced >long-term isolation of any person is a cruel and >inhuman violation of their >inalienable rights and needs as members of the human >family. The long-term >isolation of prisoners has to stop." - >www.stopisolation.org > >To mark this year's International Human Rights >Day (10 Dec) we'll be sending a copy of our statement >against prisoner >isolation to the governments of the USA, Britain, >France, Germany, Turkey and >Australia, and we'll be asking them to provide a >response. > >Our statement already has a formidable list of >supporters, inluding Noam Chomsky, Clive >Stafford-Smith, Michael Mansfield QC, >Terry Waite, Paddy Hill, Moazzam Begg and Mumia Abu >Jamal. But it would be even >better with still more support. > >Please ask friends and colleagues to >visit www.stopisolation.org and >sign up. > >"We call upon the countries of the world to enact >legislation that prohibits long-term prisoner >isolation, and prohibits the >transfer of prisoners to countries where they would be >at risk of such >treatment." www.stopisolation.orgMany thousands of >people around the world are being held >in long-term solitary confinement or other forms of >isolation in defiance of any >decent or reasonable interpretion of international >human rights law. At present >there is no effective means to prevent this, or to >prevent people being >extradited to countries where long-term isolation is a >routine part of the penal >system. Please help us change all that.

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