Democracy Now 7

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From: Cynthia Davila <cynthiadav95@mail.fresnostate.edu>
Date: Sunday, April 6, 2014
Subject: Democracy Now 7
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Democracy Now 7

Cynthia Davila 

2 topics that I learned over this week were about an AP Photographer that was shot dead by an Afghan Police Officer. She was an Associated Press photographer and her colleague had been wounded. Her name was Anja Niedringhaus at the age of 48, died instantly. This attack took place bear the Pakistani border. It seemed to be the first time ever that a police office killed a foreign journalist on purpose. Anja and her colleague were traveling with other election workers to reliever ballots ahead of the Saturday's presidential election. She was a veteran German photographer who served for a team that won a prize in 2005 for photographing the Iraq war. She was also previously hit by a sniper bullet while working, blown out of car by an explosive, and bombed mistakenly with other journalists. Seemed to me that Anja went through a lot in her life and all just because she was a veteran photographer. Who would've known it's so dangerous! 

The other topic that I found interesting this week was about ACLU suing solitary confinement of hunger strikers at immigration jails. Legal groups including ACLU of Washington are suing to block them from retailing against the immigrant hunger strikers. This is all taking place at the Northwest Detention Center in Washington. The activists say that 20 hunger strikers and supporters are long solitary confinement at the prison which is ran by the for-profit GEO group. Last month, about 750 prisoners were on the hunger strike demanding better conditions and an end to record depictions. This seems to be a huge problem and I can see why and I feel that the strikers have a good protest taking place and will soon to be getting bigger and bigger once immigrant hunger strikes at other jails in the Northwest.