Subjects Archives: Incarceration

The thing that stands out for me the most when watching the deeply moving footage of Julian Assange arriving home to Australia is how impossible this all felt until it happened.

More than half of the 800,000 women under community supervision live in states with abortion restrictions, making the path to access more difficult—or impossible.

At long last the WikiLeaks founder is free. For all those who care about freedom of speech it’s time to celebrate, writes TIM DAWSON of the International Federation of Journalists.

“We insist on respect for human rights,” Chilean President Gabriel Boric made such a message at the peace summit in Switzerland.

The deployment of electronic control devices on prisoners continues to have a human cost. Overlooking it ensures more suffering on the inside.

The ruling by the High Court in London permitting the WikiLeaks publisher to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.

The threat of immediate extradition has been lifted in today’s ruling against the U.S. government, reports John Rees from the court.

It is at a time like this that one faces a critical choice: to either fall silent and submit to the authorities or to continue to strive and struggle for freedom, unmindful of the outcome.

Police charged Prabir and NewsClick with colluding with foreign powers to sabotage India on the basis of a New York Times “hit piece” published in August 2023 which targeted several other anti-war organizations in the U.S. as well.

Charges not framed yet… trial would take years and years and years for completion, observes the SC bench while lifting the stay on Bombay HC’s order granting bail in 2023.

The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.

NewsClick and Prabir Purkyastha have not been involved in any terrorist act. Nor is there any evidence for the same. Prabir does not have links to any terrorist group.

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Administration’s suspension of students engaged in peaceful protest and their arrest by the New York City Police Department.

The Bureau of Prisons initially planned to empty FCI Dublin by April 19. Those inside fear being sent far from family.

The report in The Wall Street Journal makes public what Consortium News had learned off the record, namely that the U.S. is engaging Julian Assange’s lawyers about a deal that could set the imprisoned publisher free.

The Black Alliance For Peace Baltimore Citywide Alliance and The Ujima People’s Progress Party of Maryland strongly condemns Maryland House of Delegates for advancing House Bill 814.

U.S. imperialism creates refugees, then criminalizes them at the border.

The verdict by the Nagpur Bench of Bombay HC was delivered by Justices Vinay Joshi and Valmiki SA Menezes, who reheard Saibaba’s appeal after the SC set aside an earlier HC acquittal order.

When murder is done in our name, those who expose it are enemies of the state.

The prosecution lawyers in the High Court seeking to ensure Julian’s extradition to the U.S. rely almost exclusively on the judicial opinions of Gordon Kromberg, a highly controversial U.S. attorney.