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• CPJ is calling on governments to release journalists, PAS call for the release of low risk prisoners

  31 March, by siawi3

  Committee to Protect Journalists is calling on world leaders to immediately release all imprisoned journalists amid #COVID19. Prisoners’ Advice Service is calling for the release of low risk prisoners and those who are particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus. Please take urgent action to pressure the goverment to release Julian Assange before it’s too late.

• UK: Barbaric Decisions: Coronavirus, Refusing Bail and Julian Assange

  31 March, by siawi3

  The UK Prison Officers’ Association (POA) has urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to intervene executively to reduce numbers. The head of the Prison Governors Association Andrea Albutt has warned about the dangers posed by current detention arrangements. Prisons were “epidemiological pumps”, fertile grounds for the transmission of disease, and Assange’s continued detention posed endangering circumstances “from which he cannot escape.”

• Indonesia: Fundamentalism kills!

  31 March, by siawi3

  The government should not be permitted to hide, or to wash away their responsibility by using the distraction of religion.

• Sudan: Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim 1933-2017

  31 March, by siawi3

  As a religious woman and the daughter of an imam, Fatima was more than able to quote the Qur’an back at fundamentalists attempting to restrict women’s roles using religious arguments. She remained committed to a materialist feminism, resisting the liberal focus on identities

• Sri Lanka: Presidential Pardon for a Man Convicted for Mirusuvil Massacre Promotes Militarisation

  31 March, by siawi3

  By granting the presidential pardon to Sergeant R.M. Sunil Rathnayake, power has been abused and justice has been forsaken. In a country where military perpetrators have rarely been held to account, leading ethnic distrust to fester into war, the President has granted a pardon to one of few men actually held accountable by our nation’s highest court. His pardon is a direct challenge to judicial independence and will result in the further erosion and loss of confidence in the Sri Lankan justice system among war-affected communities.

• France : Covid 19 : Les avortements ne peuvent attendre ! Pour une loi d’urgence !

  31 mars, par siawi3

  Les droits des Femmes n’ont pas à payer le prix des conséquences de l’épidémie !

• France : Dans les cités, « le confinement va inévitablement faire monter la violence »

  31 mars, par siawi3

  Quand on connaît la situation de ces territoires, il paraît évident que le confinement les met particulièrement en tension et que l’on peut redouter une explosion. Il assèche la clientèle des trafiquants de drogue, puisque les consommateurs ne peuvent plus venir, mais aussi leur approvisionnement, parce que les go-fast ne peuvent plus rouler. Il menace aussi la prostitution, une autre activité importante pour les quartiers. Or, je n’imagine pas les délinquants rentrer tranquillement chez eux.

• India: CJP demands conversion of Goalpara detention camp into Corona Treatment Hospital

  31 March, by siawi3

  “We at CJP urge the government to convert the construction site of Goalpara detention camp into COVID-19 quarantine and treatment hospital with immediate effect.”

• Face au désastre global, construisons un « double pouvoir » ! De quoi le Covid-19 est-il le nom ? De la globalisation

  31 mars, par siawi3

  Le Covid-19 est l’une des terribles conséquences, avec le réchauffement climatique, de ce dispositif mondial de « distanciation » des rapports de production mis en place à la fin des années 1970. Ce dispositif hyper complexe, trop sophistiqué, à l’architecture archi baroque, était en fait fragile, très fragile. Il vient d’exploser sous nos yeux.

• Growing xenophobia against China in the midst of CoronaShock

  31 March, by siawi3

  Quite correctly, the World Health Organization’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for “solidarity, not stigma” in a speech given on February 14, long before the virus had hit Europe or North America.

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