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• USA: Free Press Advocates Call on Biden to Dismiss Trump’s Appeal Against Assange
  20 July 2021, by siawi3

  In February, 24 human rights organizations — including the ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders — wrote a letter to the DOJ, urging it to drop the appeal of the denial of extradition. The U.S. government has never prosecuted a journalist or newspaper for publishing classified information, which constitutes an essential tool of journalism.

• USA: New Yorkers Rally For Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale
  21 July 2021, by siawi3

  A press conference was held on Saturday, July 17^th on the High Line in New York City to support former Air Force “intelligence” analyst Daniel E. Hale, who faces 10 years in prison on July 27 after releasing government documents revealing atrocities of the U.S. drone program and details of its inner workings, such as the creation of “kill” lists.

• USA: Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison for Drone Leak
  30 July 2021, by siawi3

  “I believe that it is wrong to kill, but it is especially wrong to kill the defenseless.”

• UK: Keeping Freedom Alive - Murray’s Last Words Before Prison
  3 August 2021, by siawi3

  Why would we remove the only barrier – a jury of ordinary citizens – that can stop abuse of state power?

• UK: Support Craig Murray: Locking Hands
  13 August 2021, by siawi3

  We had a phone call this morning from HMP Edinburgh, asking us to briefly relapse our retirement again to put out a request on behalf of Prisoner 157095 – better known to you and us as our friend Craig Murray, the only person on the planet to now or ever have been imprisoned for the undefined and extremely selectively prosecuted pseudo-crime of “jigsaw identification”.

• Saudi Arabia cracks down on Palestinian resistance movement
  14 August 2021, by siawi3

  Hamas is considered an offshoot to the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been designated as a terrorist organization by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and some other Gulf countries. However, the Saudis and others have long tolerated the presence of Hamas in their countries. 69 Jordanian and Palestinian citizens accused of being members of Hamas were sentenced to prison by a court in Saudi Arabia. Hamas has claimed that the verdict is a result of warming relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

• UK: A Day in the Death of British Justice
  15 August 2021, by siawi3

  Read all 32 pages and you are left in no doubt that silencing and criminalising independent journalism was the aim, smear the method.

• USA: 50 years since Attica Rebellion: We salute ‘prisoners’ Paris Commune’
  19 September 2021, by siawi3

  “With the exception of Indian massacres in the late 19^th century, the State Police assault which ended the four-day prison uprising was the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War.” What happened in the immediate aftermath of the slaughter is too painful to fully describe. Prisoners were stripped naked, beaten, made to run through gauntlets of guards and brutally tortured. Guards stormed into the yard chanting “white power.”

• UK: Message to join the march on 23 October to free Assange
  22 September 2021, by siawi3

  Today marks 2 years that Julian Assange has been held on remand in Bellmarsh prison. Actor Mark Rylance, MPs Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn, rapper Lowkey and activist Salma Yaqoob call for him to be freed.

• Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar released after nearly two years in prison
  3 October 2021, by siawi3

  Khalida Jarrar was arrested in October 2019 and convicted in March 2021 on charges including being a member of a banned organization and involvement in the killing of an Israeli teenager, based on secret, withheld evidence There are an estimated 5,300 Palestinians currently being held in Israeli prisons, with approximately 435 Palestinians being held under the administrative detention policy.

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