par Luk Vervaet Une extradition illégale Le matin du 3 octobre 2013, dans le plus grand secret et sur ordre de la ministre de la Justice Turtelboom (VLD), la police belge transporte le détenu Nizar Trabelsi de la prison de Bruges à l’aéroport militaire de Melsbroek. Il y est remis aux agents de la…
POLITIQUE ET ARTISTIQUE, FESTIF ET SUBVERSIF, LE FESTIVAL DES LIBERTÉS MOBILISERA DU 20 AU 29 OCTOBRE 2016 TOUTES LES FORMES D’EXPRESSION POUR SE FAIRE LE TÉMOIN DE LA SITUATION DES DROITS ET LIBERTÉS, INCITER À LA RÉSISTANCE ET PROMOUVOIR LA SOLIDARITÉ. VENDREDI 21 OCTOBRE 2016 A 20H30 CRITIQUE CARCERALE : URGENCE DE DECONSTRUIRE ET NOUVEAU…
Real-life protagonists of Edinburgh Fringe prison plays to meet public The protagonists of two powerful autobiographical prison plays are to come together this Friday 12thAugust at 1pm at Summerhall, where both their plays are being staged, to meet the public. Belgian Jean-Marc Mahy was sent to prison at the age of seventeen and spent almost 20…
(photo : Paul Laverty and Ken Loach) (texte écrit au Edinburgh Festival, en anglais, traduction en français voir plus bas) “A Man Standing”, and his name is Jean-Marc. Sometimes a play isn’t just about the piece itself, but what is in your head, and maybe heart, when you cross with it. Over the last…
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,…