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September 15, 2014
A formal request of the United Nations Human Rights Council was made on Sept. 15 to review COINTELPRO (http://youtu.be/W0kid77idiY) prisoner cases during the upcoming Universal Periodic Review. Once every five years the United States has to account to the United Nations over its compliance with international human rights treaties and this cycle one of the questions will be what has the Obama administration done about COINTELPRO (http://www.examiner.com/topic/cointelpro) inmates. COINTELPRO was an illegal counterintelligence operation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover that manipulated prosecutions against targeted individuals.
Efia Nwangaza, of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, submitted a report calling for federal intervention in the cases of more than twenty prisoners convicted under COINTELPRO directives and other civil rights era cases. Nwangaza said COINTELPR O was "a violent, race based, political program."
"Under COINTELPRO, human rights defenders and activists, especially Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans fighting injustice, were subjected to harassment, monitoring and intimidation, organizational infiltration, unlawful arrests, show trials, excessive sentences, and assassination at the hands of local, state, and federal law enforcement officials. While a few political prisoners have been exonerated, after spending years behind bars, most have not, and face cruel, inhuman and degrading conditions, including lack of medical care, prolonged (decades) solitary confinement, placement in super max prisons away from family and lawyers, denial of compassionate release, and perfunctory parole hearings."
President Barack Obama may be asked what he has done to establish a National Truth and Reconciliation mechanism to investigate and compensate deaths and prosecutions of COINTELPRO/Civil Rights Era political activists. Richard Nixon was president during most of the excesses against the Black Panthers (http://www.examiner.com/topic/black-panthers). The prosecutions were brought in state courts leaving the federal government (http://www.examiner.com/government) an easy out, thus there has been no action taken by the Obama administration to correct misdeeds under Nixon.
Nwangaza's report,
No Access to Justice: Political Repression—Political Prisoners, was endorsed by the Jericho Movement which was formed to address the problem of political prisoners in America. Appendix Five of the report is titled, "Framing the Omaha Black Panther Party" and covers the cases of Edward Poindexter and Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice). The two men were targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for COINTELPRO action. The August 17, 1970 bombing murder of an Omaha policeman by a fifteen year-old was blamed on the pair and they have been in prison ever since despite a lengthy list of revelations about their manipulated trial that included withheld exculpatory evidence.
The Omaha Two (http://crimemagazine.com/j-edgar-hoover-and-framing-omaha-two) case, as it has come to be called, is of particular significance because Mondo's appeal was used by the United States Supreme Court to restrict prisoner appeals when it was consolidated with another murder case.
Stone v. Powell limited prisoner Fourth Amendment appeal rights and became a milestone in the development of criminal law restrictions, magnifying the injustice in Omaha initiated by J. Edgar Hoover. The Supreme Court then applied the restriction
ex post facto on Mondo denying him a hearing on the merits of his case. Mondo had won his freedom or a new trial at the U.S. District Court and also with the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Justice William Brennen announced in a sharply worded dissent that the decision was "profoundly disturbing."
Shadow reports (http://www.examiner.com/article/racism-treaty-committee-calls-on-obama-administration-to-explain-black-prisoners) earlier submitted under human rights treaty provisions have already alerted United Nations reviewers to the unresolved problem of unjust convictions for political reasons in the United States. The current filing with the Human Rights Council about COINTELPRO abuses supplement issues raised under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights.
The Obama administration has until early next year to respond to the Universal Periodic Review. Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa remain imprisoned at the maximum-security Nebraska State Penitentiary where they continue to proclaim their innocence. Mondo has a pending post-conviction appeal before the Nebraska Supreme Court. No date for a decision has been set.