[embedded content]https://youtu.be/aNG-LWlF3HA Julian Assange Rots in Jail as U.S. Slaughters First Amendment June 18, 2021 from Counterpunch by by Eve Ottenberg shared with thanks Photograph Source: thierry ehrmann – CC BY 2.0Years pass, and journalist Julian Assange languishes in a British jail. His crime? Truthful reporting of U.S. military atrocities in Iraq, reporting that sparked a […]
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A Daughter Struggles For the Release of Her Distinguished Imprisoned Mother Who Had Earlier Protected Poorest People From Injustice
Till some time back Sudha Bharadwaj was known to many friends and admirers as a public interest lawyer who had protected many vulnerable and poor persons, particularly workers from injustice. She also taught law at prestigious institutions and was a source of inspiration for many of her students. How have conditions changed? Now her only […]
Man Imprisoned In Gulag Just Glad President Isn’t Tweeting Mean Things
PORTLAND, OR—A man in a Portland-area gulag expressed today that he’s glad the president isn’t tweeting mean things anymore. He was hauled away to the gulag after it was revealed that he voted Republican in 2004. He recanted and promised to do better, but his crimes were deemed too bad to integrate him back into […]
LGBT fascism: father imprisoned for calling his biological daughter “daughter”
WINTERY KNIGHT I have a lot to say about this story, so I’ll be brief in re-capping the facts. The back story from Post Millennial: H00g1and discovered that the school had been showing his daughter SOGI 123, the going sexual and gend3r identity education materials in British Columbia which amounts to tr4nsgend3r ideology “propaganda videos.” […]
Academic imprisoned in Iran for two years recalls ‘psychological torture’
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Algeria frees imprisoned journalist and pro-democracy activists after presidential pardon
Algerian authorities freed an imprisoned journalist and more than 30 other pro-democracy activists on Friday in a conciliatory gesture ahead of the second anniversary of their Hirak protest movement. Chanting “Free and Democratic Algeria,” dozens of people gathered at the prison where journalist and activist Khaled Drareni had been held in Kolea, west of the […]
Danish man imprisoned for four months for coughing on policeman and shouting “corona”
A Danish man has been sentenced to four months in prison for coughing at a policeman and shouting “corona”. The suspect was found guilty of “attempted violence” against public officials and convicted by Denarmk’s Supreme Court on Thursday. The 20-year-old man was driving home from a birthday party in Aarhus when police carried out a […]
Christian in Algeria Imprisoned for Cartoon on Facebook
Photo Credit: Maya Anais Yataghene/Wikipedia TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A Christian who had received and reposted a cartoon of the prophet of Islam on his Facebook account three years ago was not too concerned when gendarmerie showed up at his door on Jan. 20. By the next day, the 43-year-old father of four young children […]
Vietnamese Christian Imprisoned on ‘Illegal Logging’ Charge for Repairing House Now Free
Photo Credit: Nam Le/Pixabay Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – A pastor in northwestern Vietnam told ICC that on Jan. 10, a Christian man named Sung A Khua returned home after serving two and a half years in prison. In 2018, when Sung A Khua and his family converted to Christianity, they were facing a lot […]
U.K. Judge Rules American Prisons “Too Inhumane” to Extradite Imprisoned Journalist Assange
Julian Assange Can’t Be Extradited to US, UK Judge RulesPosted: 04 Jan 2021 05:09 AM PSTIn a historic ruling that some say could help protect press freedoms in the US, a British judge has ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the US.The New York Times described the ruling as “…a major victory against the […]
Brother Yun, Formerly Imprisoned for Proclaiming Jesus, Personifies Research on Benefits of Singing
(ChinaAid) — Throughout the Webinex ChinaAid hosted Dec. 5, “Let the Church Rise …,” Brother Yun, previously imprisoned and suffering for more than 10 years in numerous Chinese prisons for proclaiming the name of Jesus, smiled as he sang out several times, “Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.” … The Bible tells us that Paul rejoiced in suffering, […]
Imprisoned Pastor’s Son Asked to Renounce Faith, Faces Death Threats in Vietnam
Photo Credit: Van Long Bui/Pixabay Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – Prior to International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10, Radio Free Asia’s (RFA) Vietnamese service spoke to several human rights groups to learn about the erosion of human rights in the country. … According to RFA, Pastor Y Yich of Dak Doa town, Gia Lai […]
Iran releases Jewish prisoner imprisoned for visiting Israeli family
The Islamic Republic of Iran has freed imprisoned Iranian Jew Mashallah Pesar Kohan, who was detained in 2017 for visiting his family members in Israel.George Haroonian, a prominent Iranian Jewish American, announced Sunday on social media that “Mashallah Pesar Kohan, a Jewish citizen, was released from prison in greater Tehran.”Karmel Melamed, an Iranian-American journalist and […]
Iranian Christian Imprisoned for Membership in House Church Loses Third Request for Retrial
(Article18) — Imprisoned Christian convert Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh has been informed that his third request for a retrial has been rejected. Nasser, who is 59 years old, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison because of his membership of a house-church, for which he was convicted in July 2017 of “acting against […]
Wife of Imprisoned Pastor Finds Support From Widow of Christian Martyr
TAJIKISTAN (Voice of the Martyrs) — [O]n April 10, 2017, agents raided the Sonmin Sonbogym Church and arrested Bakhrom. Citing as evidence the Christian songs found on his computer and the Josh McDowell book “More Than a Carpenter” found among his possessions, authorities sentenced Pastor Bakhrom to three years in prison for his “extremist” views. […]
Imprisoned Morsi died in court: Who really cares?
Yesterday, … yes, I believe it was yesterday evening, while driving my car in downtown Alexandria that I first heard of Mohamed Morsi’s sudden death while being in court. I did not pull over, I did not seem surprised nor sad. I just kept driving on and (with a smirk on my face) turned on […]
Criminal state: Imprisoned teen Tamimi in coma after life-threatening medical neglect by Israeli authorities
Imprisoned Palestinian teenager Hassan Abdulkhaleq Mizher Tamimi was subjected to life-threatening medical neglect by Israeli authorities. Tamimi, 18, has a serious medical condition in his liver and kidneys, which makes him unable to absorb proteins. He requires a strict vegetarian diet, medicines and periodic tests at the hospital. Israeli authorities provided him with none […]
Israel’s ‘war on children’ leaves hundreds of Palestinian youngsters imprisoned
Tamimi, who is facing 10 years in jail after slapping an Israeli soldier in December 2017, will be in court this month but Tamimi’s case is far from an isolated one. According to B’Tselem (the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories), at the end of 2017 there were 352 Palestinian minors […]
Why won’t Israel treat imprisoned woman with severe burns?
Tamara Nassar Rights and Accountability 18 January 2018 Israel is subjecting a victim of severe burns to medical neglect in one of its prisons. Israa Jaabis, 32, was at Israel’s high court on 11 January to appeal her 11-year sentence, citing her dire health situation. Sixty percent of her body is covered in burns and […]
Twitter deletes account of imprisoned Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi
Without explanation, the Twitter account belonging to imprisoned Palestinian teenage girl Ahed Tamimi was deleted. Tamimi was arrested and imprisoned by the Israeli military. Another account has been created, calling for Twitter to reinstate Tamimi’s original account. While it is unclear if Twitter itself deleted the account, Manal Tamimi, a relative of Ahed, suggested […]