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Old 12-11-2009, 07:37 PM   #1
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Peter Watts arrested at US border
Remember hugo-award-nominated science fiction author Peter Watts? Well, he is in serious legal trouble after he was imprisoned by US border guards on December 8. BoingBoing has the story:

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My friend, the wonderful sf writer Peter Watts was beaten without provocation and arrested by US border guards on Tuesday. I heard about it early Wednesday morning in London and called Cindy Cohn, the legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She worked her contacts to get in touch with civil rights lawyers in Michigan, and we mobilized with Caitlin Sweet (Peter's partner) and David Nickle (Peter's friend) and Peter was arraigned and bailed out later that day.
Link to the full article: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/11...tts-canad.html

I don't want to turn this into a political discussion (there are other places better suitable for it, and God knows what was really going on) - I only wanted to bring it to your attention in case you wanted to assist Mr. Watts in dealing with the legal fees.
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