Tag Archives | Kidnapping

Biden Administration wants kidnapped Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab to “suffer like Julian Assange,” according to UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur

Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on October 12, 2022 (more by CovertAction Magazine) |

New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington’s onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela.
Alex Saab is being tortured in the U.S., denounces Diplomat’s wife Camila (+Oscar López Rivera)

Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on February 6, 2022 (more by Orinoco Tribune) | (Posted Feb 09, 2022)

Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab “is suffering torture and inhumane treatment everyday in the United States,” decried his wife Camila Fabri Saab during a solidarity event for the diplomat, hosted last Friday, February 3, by the US-based human rights organization Alliance for Global Justice.
‘State terrorism’: Alfred de Zayas on Alex Saab kidnapping

Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on October 19, 2021 by La IguanaTV (more by Orinoco Tribune) |

“’Lawfare’ is a modern epidemic. In the past, governments did what they wanted and got away with it. Today they attempt to throw a cloak of legality over their abuse of extradition treaties and subvert the administration of justice in the process,” wrote the historian.
ISM Activist Vittorio Arrigoni Kidnapped in Gaza

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International Solidarity Movement activist Vittorio Arrigoni was kidnapped in Gaza today. News sources in the Gaza Strip say that the kidnappers are members of a Salafi group. In a YouTube video, the group threatens to kill Arrigoni in 30 hours, counting from 11 AM in Gaza (10 AM in Italy), if the Hamas government […]