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• 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: 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.

• ‘Believing the Propaganda That the Government Follows the Law’ November 29, 2021
  30 November 2021, by siawi3

  Whistleblower David McBride faces life in prison for revealing war crimes in Afghanistan to the media.

• Freed activist Ramy Shaath: ’Egypt is becoming a republic of fear’
  2 February 2022, by siawi3

  Activist Ramy Shaath spent over 900 days in an Egyptian prison, accused of terrorism but never charged. Now freed, he says people in his country are “afraid to talk”.

• UK authorities provided with a convenient way of ridding the world of Julian Assange
  15 April 2020, by siawi3

  Should Assange contract the virus and lack of care leads to loss of life, that might well be a relief to the authorities on both sides of the Atlantic. But given Assange’s medical condition and the recorded infection problems in Belmarsh, should there be such a tragedy then those same authorities would be guilty of failing not only a duty of care, but far worse.

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  14 avril 2021, par siawi3
• USA: Drone Whistleblower Jailed Ahead Of July Sentencing
  6 May 2021, by siawi3

  Under President Barack Obama’s administration, he helped expose the targeted assassination program, including drone warfare. Hale pled guilty on March 31 to one charge of violating the Espionage Act, when he provided documents to Intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill and anonymously wrote a chapter in Scahill’s book, The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program.

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  13 juillet 2021, par siawi3
• India: Tributes, statements, poems and analysis - Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest who died in custody on July 5, 2021 at the Holy Family Hospital in Bandra in Bombay..
  11 July 2021, by siawi3

  The real crime of this priest was that he stood by the poor, the adivasis and for their constitutional rights, he was a believer in liberation theology and that was seen as a threat by the authorities.

• Iran : #FemmeVieLiberté : Armita Abbasi, figure de ces Iraniennes emprisonnées et violées
  20 février, par siawi3

  Le 2 janvier, elle avait entamé une grève de la faim, dans la prison de Katchoï à Karaj, dans le nord de l’Iran, où elle est incarcérée depuis plus de trois mois. Un geste fort, suivi par 14 codétenues, pour protester contre « les conditions inhumaines et indignes dans lesquelles elles étaient détenues mais aussi du harcèlement et des tortures subis » dont les viols systématiques. Interrogé le 7 décembre 1986 sur l’utilisation massive du viol dans les prisons, le Guide Suprême a répondu : « Oui ! De tels viols sont essentiels pour empêcher ces femmes anti-islam d’entrer au paradis. Si elles sont exécutées vierges, elles entreront au paradis. Donc, les viols sont extrêmement importants pour empêcher ces éléments d’entrer au paradis. »

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