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When Keir Starmer shifted Labours position on Kashmir in the first weeks of his leadership last year, he m stanley cup ay not have realised that his stated intention of preventing issues of the subcontinent to divide communities here could cost the support of some of its most loyal voters.Canvassing outside Jamia Masjid in Heckmondwike on Friday, the Labour candidate in the Batley and Spen byelection, Kim Leadbeater, received a hostile reception from voters who are unhappy with the partys stance on foreign policy issues such as Palestine and Kashmir, amid a perception that the party takes some forms of racism more seriously than others.The accusation youve taken our votes for granted was repeatedly levelled at Leadbeater and Lisa Nandy, the shadow foreign secretary and Wigan MP, who joined her on the campaign trail.View image in fullscreenCampaign posters on lampposts in Heckmondwike. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Keir took the time to condemn two idiots for being antisemitic last month but he wont condemn the Israeli government for killing innocent people, said Wajjad Hussain, 33, referring to an incident in north London last month where antisemitic abuse appeared to be shouted from a car. Ive voted Labour my whole life but I wont be blindly giving them my vote any more. And thats not just about Palestine. Its everything locally. They stanley cup ve been i stanley isolierkanne n power here for 25 years but only now theyre under threat do they care about Asians, he added.While many voters were glad tha Qpsf Seen, but rarely heard
Lawyers defending Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and four of his co-accused have asked to be locked up for two nights in the Guant谩namo prison in order to understand the conditions in which their clients are held.The US government has objected to the request on the grounds that it could endanger the lives of those involved in such a visit and instead offered an escorted tour.But one of the military defence lawyers, Lieutenant Commander Kevin Bogucki, likened the government s offer to the jungle ride at Disneyland , where visitors think the mechanical elephant is real. He said he wanted a full and meaningful inspection .None of the defence lawyers have ever seen inside the maximum security facility, Camp 7, where detainees captured and tortured by the CIA 鈥?including Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times 鈥?are held.David Nevin, a lawyer for Mohammed, said he wants to visit Camp 7 in order to understand his client s behaviour and his actions in open court, and also his reaction to his current conditions of confinement. He said it was necessary particularly termo stanley in the context of a person who was tortured .The defence also said that conditions, mugs stanley and torture, may be used as factors during any sentencing phase.The military judge, Colonel James Pohl, expressed surprise at the request. stanley us You want to sleep with your client he asked one of the defence lawyers, Commander Walter Ruiz.q |
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