WAR IN BRIEF : WORLDWIDE : Rights Group Urges Soldier Be Freed
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The human rights organization Amnesty International said a U.S. soldier imprisoned after he refused to help prepare supplies for troops in Saudi Arabia is “a prisoner of conscience” and should be released immediately. In calling for the freedom of Sgt. George Morse, now serving time at Ft. Riley, Kan., the London-based organization expressed the fear that “hundreds of people claiming to be conscientious objectors may also face unjust imprisonment.”
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