United Kingdom of Belgium, now in Scotland ! in association with proudly presents – A MAN STANDING – Jean-Michel Van den Eeyden / Jean-Marc Mahy / Stephane Pirard Jean-Marc Mahy entered prison at the age of seventeen. He spent nearly 20 years detained, three of them in solitary confinement. On stage with performer Stephane Pirard,…
International coalition to free the Angola 3 : Albert Woodfox is Freed Today on his 69th Birthday! Friday, February 19, 2016 – Louisiana, USA Just moments ago, Albert Woodfox, the last remaining member of the Angola 3 still behind bars, was released from prison 43 years and 10 months after he was first put in…
Hugo Pinell, friend and comrade of Black Panther Georges Jackson, was murdered on the 12th of August 2015 at California State Prison, Sacramento, a maximum-security prison adjacent to the notorious Folsom State Prison. Hugo Pinell was imprisoned for 51 years of which 45 years in solitary confinement in San Quentin, Folsom and Corcoran, and…
Bekijk de Panorama uitzetting hier Jonathan Jacob overleed op 6 januari 2010 in een cel van de lokale politie in Mortsel ten gevolge van politiegeweld. Eerder die dag was geprobeerd Jonathan Jacob te laten colloqueren. Maar een psychiatrisch ziekenhuis weigerde de man op te nemen. Hij zou te agressief geweest zijn. Om die reden moest…
Source (photo : Solitary Watch’s James Ridgeway) Perhaps the most moving testimony Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on solitary confinement came from death row exonoree Anthony Graves. Graves spent over 18 years on Texas’ death row for a crime he did not commit. Living in an 8 x 12 cell, he had little social contact,…
Présentation du livre Guantanamo chez nous ? Un livre de Luk Vervaet Librairie Livresse, Bar à livres, Rue du marché au porcs 26, 1000 Bruxelles Jeudi 21 mai 2015 à 18.30h. Facebook event here
“Sahar Francis is a lawyer, activist and the Director of Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, whose name in Arabic means conscience, and which was founded in 1992 by a group of activists to provide free legal aid to political prisoners and to advocate for prisoners’ rights. I spoke with her in…
Le samedi 11 avril 2015 à 16h30 à la librairie Résistances, 4 Villa Compoint 75017 Paris (Angle du 40, rue Guy Môquet) SOURCE Un livre aussi passionnant qu’inquiétant : « Guantanamo chez nous ?” qui sera présenté par son auteur, Luk Vervaet. Une description, mais aussi une analyse de la transformation de la société sous l’influence américaine….
‘Extradition and the Erosion of Human Rights’ Wednesday 28 January 2015. 6.30pm-8pm Sheikh Zayed Theatre Speakers: Gareth Peirce, Professor Saskia Sassen, Professor Jeanne Theoharis Chair: Professor Susan Marks Since 9/11 the rules governing extradition from the UK to the US have been systematically relaxed, and safeguards designed to protect against injustice have been dismantled. British…
… More than thirty detainees have been recently moved into solitary confinement, in cold cells that lack the basic requirements for human use. Forcing the detainees into solitary confinement is an illegal, vindictive and punitive measure,” the detainees said, “Solitary confinement is like graves for the living; we call for urgent and serious measures to…