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An open letter to President Joe Biden
Mr. President, If you can pardon your son, why can’t you free the Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier?
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Climate activists serving combined 41 years of jail time granted mass appeal hearing
What’s at stake in this hearing is not just the freedom of some courageous individuals: it’s the credibility of the British legal system and the lifeblood of democracy itself.
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Blacks and Hispanics seeking parole face widening racial disparity, report finds
After a damning revelation eight years ago, state leaders changed the make-up of the Parole Board to combat inequality. It didn’t help.
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Yulia Skripal reveals the biggest secret of all at Novichok show trial-The attack was a British operation, not a Russian one
Yulia Skripal communicated from her bedside at Salisbury District Hospital on March 8, 2018, four days after she and her father Sergei Skripal collapsed from a poison attack, that the attacker used a spray; and that the attack took place when she and her father were eating at a restaurant just minutes before their collapse on a bench outside.
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Nigeria’s economic crisis deepens: Children facing death penalty for protesting cost of living
In Nigeria, 29 children aged 14 to 17 could face the death penalty after being arraigned in Abuja on Nov. 1 with 76 others for participating in protests against the country’s severe cost-of-living crisis.
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A stolen life: Remembering GN Saibaba, who the State kept imprisoned over a decade
For those who knew him, GN Saibaba was a staunch human rights activist, a beloved professor and comrade, and a doting husband. He breathed his last on October 12.
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A year after the attack on NewsClick, journalists in India call for a united fight against assaults on independent media
Many former NewsClick employees are struggling to find an alternative job even after months of unemployment due to the vilification and fear mongering campaign launched by the ultra-right government in India.
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Leonard Peltier’s 80th birthday statement released
Greetings All, On this Wrongful Conviction Day, Leonard Peltier, the longest-serving Indigenous political prisoner, is incarcerated in lockdown-modified operations conditions at USP Coleman I, operated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Yet, in this moment of silence, Leonard speaks. To honor his birthday and all those who are unjustly convicted and incarcerated, the […]
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Twenty years too many for Simón Trinidad
Human rights organizations launch an international campaign to return Colombian peace negotiator Simon Trinidad back to his home country after being imprisoned in a U.S. supermax prison for over 20 years.
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Marcellus Williams lynched by United States despite public outcry
Marcellus Williams has been executed via lethal injection in the U.S.
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Activists mark four years in jail under India’s UAPA without trial or bail
Umar Khalid and more than a dozen activists have spent four years in prison under India’s controversial Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), with no trial or bail. The cases are widely seen as politically motivated efforts to suppress dissent.
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From Emma Goldman to Chairman Omali, the Empire’s crackdown on free speech and racial solidarity
The ruling class is once again in a frenzied state, seeking to crush political dissent and a growing class consciousness with an iron fist in another wave of repression.
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Advocates fight to stop execution of innocent death row prisoner Marcellus Williams in less than a week
William’s execution is set for September 24 despite DNA evidence proving him innocent, his legal team pledges to keep up the fight
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Venezuela announces arrest of U.S. Navy SEAL, weapons seizure
Interior Minister Cabello said authorities had uncovered a “terrorist plot” to assassinate Maduro, the U.S. denied allegations of involvement.
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Uhuru 3 found not guilty of being Russian agents
On the morning of September 12th, the jury returned a verdict in the free speech trial of the century, where Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel faced bogus charges of working as Russian agents.
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Black Alliance for Peace condemns the federal indictments of Uhuru 3 and denial of their fundamental human rights to speech, association, information and political dissent
The federal trial of the Uhuru 3 has begun. The egregious charges of being foreign agents don’t bode well for the future of free speech and the radical Black movement. However, the movement will continue to struggle and resist these attacks on human rights.
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Honduran President Xiomara Castro rejects U.S. interference and condemns coup plot
Honduran President Xiomara Castro announced on August 28 that she ordered the suspension of the extradition agreement between her country and the United States.
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Black August: Our resistance is essential
Black August is a month to commemorate and tell the history of those African men and women brutalized, locked up, and killed by the U.S. criminal justice system.
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Morocco pardons 4,800 jailed for cultivating cannabis–so they can farm legally
The world’s largest cannabis producer aims to encourage legal cultivation of the plant and export it for industrial or medical purposes
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‘Little Guantánamo’ gets bigger
Two secretive prison units that used to almost exclusively house people said to be connected to terrorism have expanded by nearly 80 percent in 15 years, and a new unit is on the way. Formerly incarcerated people say they have been used to punish dissent.