A Chinese court handed down a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year’s coronavirus outbreak in China.The journalist stood accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” fielding interviews with foreign media outlets and “maliciously spreading” misinformation about the viral outbreak […]
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China jails journalist for four years over Wuhan coronavirus reporting
Injured detainee in Israeli jails wins Palestine’s ‘Woman of Year’ award
The Palestinian Ministry for Women’s Affairs on Thursday awarded Israa Jaabees, an injured Palestinian woman who remains in Israeli police custody, as this year’s “Woman of Palestine.” A 32-year-old mother, Jaabees was arrested in 2015 after being shot at by Israeli soldiers in East Jerusalem. She sustained severe burns in an ensuing gas explosion. “Palestinian […]
Video of Ahed Tamimi’s violent interrogation inside Israeli jails
Family of Palestinian protest teen Ahed Tamimi has released video in which two male Israeli interrogators threatening little girl and commenting on her body, fair skin and “eyes of an angel.” One of the men is seen moving to within inches of Tamimi, who remains silent. Excerpts from the 90-minute interrogation video were released Monday by […]
Health condition of Palestinian hunger-striker in Israeli jails deteriorates
Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC) said on Sunday that health condition of Palestinian hunger-striker inside Israeli jails severely deteriorated. In a statement, the PPC said that the Palestinian prisoner Rezeq al-Rajoub, 52, who has been on hunger strike for eight consecutive days, is now suffering from stomach ulcer, sever pains in the intestines and sight weakness. […]
Palestinian prisoner dies inside Israeli jails
Due to medical negligence, Palestinian prisoner from West Bank passed away on Saturday morning inside Israeli jails. Palestinian sources identified the Palestinian prisoner as Hussein Atalla from the West Bank city of Nablus. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The Palestinian prisoner suffered cancer, but received bad healthcare inside the Israeli occupation jails. […]
Poland Jails Belarussians Who Stripped Naked at Auschwitz
A Polish court on Wednesday jailed the organisers of an anti-war stunt that saw a dozen people strip naked last year at the former German internment camp Auschwitz-Birkenau before one of them slaughtered a lamb. The court in the southern city of Oswiecim found Belarussians Adam B. and Mikita V. guilty of desecrating a memorial […]
Israeli MK insults mothers of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails
Extremist Israeli Jewish MK Oren Hazan insulted on Monday Palestinian mothers during their way to visit their prisoners inside Israeli prisons. Hazan stopped and boarded the bus of the Palestinian mothers after it had crossed the Israeli Erez Crossing in the north of the Gaza Strip. The extremist Israeli MK asked one of the mothers […]
The End of Prison Visits: Jails End Face-To-Face Contact And Families Suffer
One sunny day in October, at the Jefferson Parish correctional center just across the river from downtown New Orleans, Tiffany Burns, 34, was visiting her boyfriend. The pair had been dating for almost two years and were still giggly in love when a late July knock on the door sent him away. Scooped up by […]
WATCH: Bail ‘Disrupters’ Have a Plan to Free Thousands From U.S. Jails
Ezra Ritchin, project director for the Bronx Freedom Fund, on the bus to bail out clients. TULSA, OK — Last Labor Day weekend, Tommi Ziegler watched in horror as her pregnant daughter stood sobbing against a car, swollen belly straining against her white tank top, hands bound behind her back with handcuffs. A routine traffic […]
Israel jails Sheikh Salah to be able to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque
Every time Israel wanted to carry out parts of its judaisation plans in Jerusalem’s Old City or Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Raed Salah stand up and foils its plans. So that, it decided to send him behind bars. On 15 August, the Israeli occupation police raided Umm Al-Fahm, the second largest Arab city in Israel, broke […]
Two Palestinian minors given 18 years in Israeli jails
Israeli occupation court sentenced two Palestinian minors to 18 years in prison each over claims of stabbing, wounding Israeli settler in May 2016. The claimed attack took place in the illegal Israeli Jewish settlement of East Talpiyot in the occupied Palestinian city of Jerusalem. A third Palestinian boy was also sentenced to 25 months in […]
Judge Jails Police Officer on Contempt Charge for Being ‘Intoxicated and Disheveled’ in Court
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Youngest prisoner in Israeli jails to start hunger strike
Youngest Palestinian imprisoned under administrative detention in Israeli is thinking of starting hunger strike, committee revealed on Thursday. The Palestinian boy Nour Issa, 16, is the youngest Palestinian prisoner under Israeli administrative detention, the PLO’s Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Committee (PFPC) said. “Issa is seriously thinking of starting an open-ended hunger strike,” the PFPC said, […]
Why Jails Are Booming
Why Jails Are Booming June 2nd, 2017 Via: The Atlantic: A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative examines the reasons behind this explosive growth. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s not driven by crime. Crime rates nationwide have dropped over the past few decades, as have […]
Palestinian Inmates In Israeli Jails End Hunger Strike
Palestinian boys raise up their hands with chains, during a protest to show their solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails in Beirut, Lebanon, May 4, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla) Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners ended a 40-day hunger strike today initially launched over conditions in Israeli jails, the Israel Prison Service and a Palestinian […]
Texas Senate Paves Way For ‘Baby Jails’ To Be Licensed As ‘Family Residential Centers’
Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Brownsville,Texas. (AP/Eric Gay) The Texas Senate on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to legislation that would make it easier for the state to license privately run detention centers as “family residential centers” in order to hold […]
Prisoners in Israeli jails continue hunger strike for 24th day
More than 1,700 Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails continue their open-ended hunger strike for the 24th day; Israel continues denying their legitimate demands. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC) reported that some of the hunger strikers stopped from drinking water for several hours due to the increasing difficulties they face when they use toilets. Meanwhile, the […]
Swedish Court Jails Three Men for Rape Broadcast on Facebook
A Swedish court jailed three men on Tuesday for up to two and a half years for the rape of a woman that was broadcast live on Facebook. The rape, which shocked Sweden, took place earlier this year in the city of Uppsala, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Stockholm. Viewers of the live […]
Erdogan was so quick in arresting 6,000 people clearly the list must have been prepared in advance
A senior European Union official on Monday suggested that Turkey had prepared for thousands of people to be arrested prior to Friday night’s failed military coup attempt. Turkey’s justice minister said on Sunday that over 6,000 people have been detained in connection with the coup attempt which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed on his […]
Ankara apologizes to Moscow over downing Russian jet
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has apologized to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over Ankara’s shooting down of a Russia’s military jet last year which shattered ties between the two countries. In a statement released on Monday, Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Putin had received a letter from Erdogan “in which the Turkish leader expressed […]