financing of the Mark Curtis Defence Committee. Such an attempt to intrude into the financing of the Committee was a direct challenge to the right to free political association and threatened defence committees and human rights organizations all over the world. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1990/SR.26 page 3 13. In conclusion, she urged the Sub-Committee to make every effort to bring an end to such violations of democratic rights. 14. Ms. UNDERHILL (International Institute of Higher Studies), also speaking on behalf of the International Association of Penal Law, said that she wished to draw attention to document E/CN.4/Sub.2/1990/NG0.4 submitted by the two organizations which set out the work done and being done in the field of Arab human rights to which reference had already been made by the representative of the Arab Lawyers Union. 15. Mr. WAREHAM (International Association against Torture) said that there were over 200 political prisoners inside the United States federal and state prison systems. The United States Government had stated that those individuals were incarcerated for the commission of "common crimes" and not for their politics. That was a familiar argument which the United States Government had also used in denying that it maintained a political police. He recalled that in the early 1970s the secret Counter-Intelligence Programme of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had been exposed by activists and subsequently denounced by the United States Congress. That programme had been designed to disrupt, destroy and neutralize political movements within the United States by the use of means up to and including violence and assassination. 16. The policy of the United States Bureau of Prisons was geared towards the psychological destruction of political prisoners. The highest level security prison in the United States was at Marion, Illinois. Marion housed federal prisoners who had proved to represent disciplinary problems in other prisons; 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing human rights violations, specifically related to political prisoners and the treatment of prisoners in the United States. It also mentions the financing of the Mark Curtis Defence Committee, which suggests that it may be related to political activism and advocacy. The text does not appear to be focused on economic or environmental issues, and does not contain any technical or scientific language that would suggest it belongs to a category like "industry" or "science and technology".

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, Human rights