Judge fines city of New York and orders release of jailed protesters
/A state supreme court judge has fined the city of
New York for contempt after ordering the release of more than 550
protesters who he said had been detained illegally for up to two and a
half days. While George Bush was delivering his keynote speech,
demonstrators trickled out, complaining of being held in a bus cleaning
station beside the Hudson river without access to lawyers. Many of
those held in what protesters have branded "Guantánamo by the Hudson",
said they were not involved in anti-Bush demonstrations but had been
swept up by overzealous police. They included the manager of a theatre
who was coming out of a subway station with a friend on their way to
celebrate his birthday, and two women who had been shopping. [more 
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