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Le jugement de Julian Assange dévoile la monstruosité du système carcéral supermax
(Photo Monique Dits Bruxelles 11 janvier 2021 Close Guantanamo Free Julian Assange) Extraits. Le 4 janvier 2021, la juge Vanessa Baraitser a rejeté la demande américaine d’extradition de Julian Assange.…
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Lundi 11 janvier 2021 : Close Guantanamo, Free Julian Assange (Bruxelles, Place de la Monnaie 17h).
Un appel de : International Prisoners' News, Comité Free Assange Belgium, Arlac asbl, Rights and Freedoms for Minorities in Belgium, le groupe Familles des Détenus pour le Retour des Visites,…
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CLOSE SUPERVISION CENTRES : Campaigners (Angela Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Winston Silcott…) demand end to ‘cruel and inhumane’ prison segregation units
SOURCE Campaigners demand end to ‘cruel and inhumane’ prison segregation units Morning Star UK 7 December 2020 (photo Morning Star) SOURCE Psychiatrists Are Covering for Cruelty in Prisons. A Group…
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Isolated and alone, Palestinian children in solitary confinement, by Defense for Children International – Palestine
SOURCE Cover graphic: Sara Al Asfar Israel’s isolation of Palestinian child prisoners amounts to torture Dec 02, 2020 Ramallah, December 2, 2020—Israeli authorities routinely detain Palestinian children in isolation solely for interrogation purposes, a practice that amounts to torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, Defense for Children International – Palestine said in…
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40 Years in Prison, 40 Years of Struggle: An Interview with John Bowden by Connor Woodman
SOURCE 19 November 2020 John Bowden, a long-time prison organiser and member of the Prisoner Solidarity Network, was recently released after 40 years of incarceration. While all those who were sent down with him were released after 20 years, Bowden was kept back as punishment for his anti-prison organising. Connor Woodman sat down with Bowden…
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THE BOX : watch this powerful play about solitary confinement by solitary survivor Sarah Shourd
This powerful play about solitary confinement by solitary survivor Sarah Shourd, can be viewed online, thanks to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. When it debuted in San Francisco in 2016, Pulitzer Center grantee Sarah Shourd’s play, The Box, gave audiences an inside look at the horrors of solitary confinement and mass incarceration in the United…
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USA November 2020 : Hyper-criminalization of protests has brought a new wave of political prisoners (Alliance for Global Justice)
SOURCE A re-surged movement against police brutality, white supremacy, and state violence come to be known as the largest sustained mobilization in modern U.S. history continues to reignite public discourse around issues of systemic racism and the need to organize collectively across race lines for transformative change. It’s followed that this new wave of resistance has been…
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International Symposium on Solitary Confinement (Virtual) Thu, Nov 5, 2020, 8:00 AM – Fri, Nov 6, 2020, 1:00 PM PST
EVENT click here This free event will explore psychological, legal and biological issues related to solitary confinement in the USA and world. This symposium, sponsored by the Provost’s Office at Thomas Jefferson University and free to the public, will bring together international experts on the use and impact of solitary confinement. Topics to be discussed…
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“Women in Solitary: Inside the female resistance to apartheid”, Frank Barat interviews Shanthini Naidoo
Shanthini Naidoo is a former Sunday Times journalist. She has also worked as news editor for The Times newspaper and features writer at O, The Oprah magazine. She holds a Masters degree in Journalism from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her book, “Women in solitary : Inside the female resistance to apartheid” is out now. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FBJ4T36 More…
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D’Abu Ghraib à Georges Floyd, un extrait du livre “Le meurtre de Georges Floyd, la pandémie de violences policières et son traitement révolutionnaire”, de Luk Vervaet
” Suivant les événements sensationnels ou horribles, les médias et les politiques sautent d’un sujet à l’autre. Créant ainsi une fois l’indignation ici, une fois là, cherchant à chaque fois les responsables des horreurs au sein de la police, de l’armée, des prisons, des milices de l’extrême droite : des individus monstrueux, des hommes et…
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Assange’s Fifth Day at the Old Bailey: Supermax Prisons and Special Administrative Measures
SOURCE (Top Illustration Reuters/Julia Quenzler) by Dr Binoy Kampmark — September 15, 2020 Having had a coronavirus scare towards the end of last week, necessitating a brief suspension of proceedings for September 11, the extradition proceedings for Julian Assange resumed with Eric Lewis. The chairman of the board of Reprieve, who has cut his teeth on representing Afghan detainees…
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August 2020: Racism, Repression and Fightback in the USA, by Alliance for Global Justice
Source For over two months, an uprising against police brutality and white supremacy that followed the murder of George Floyd has persevered in spite of the violently one-sided political repression spearheaded by both the state and the extreme right-wing. The Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) has released a comprehensive report detailing the various forms in which political…
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USA : Why did the Bureau of Prisons impose a national lockdown days after the murder of George Floyd? by Natalia Schuurman, Alliance for Justice
SOURCE Photo by Dai Sugano/The Mercury News/East Bay Times Following the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25, a nationwide uprising of unprecedented proportions has swept the U.S. in thousands of cities and towns, large and small, across all 50 states. This surge of mass resistance around issues of racial…