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• Belgique : Liberté religieuse et citoyenneté en prison
  7 février 2012, par siawi3

  la prison étant par définition un lieu de réclusion, il est nécessaire que l’administration pénitentiaire mette en place un certain nombre de mesures visant à assurer aux détenus l’exercice de leur culte. Impossible, en d’autres termes, sauf à bafouer les droits fondamentaux des détenus, de considérer que la prison est un lieu d’où la religion doit être absente.

• USA: Home, but Not Free: NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Adjusts to Her Release From Prison
  19 July 2021, by siawi3

  Winner is currently serving the longest prison sentence of its kind under the Espionage Act, a World War I-era law used in recent years to send journalists’ sources to prison, even as comparable defendants have simply gotten probation for charges of mishandling classified information.

• India: We are with you, Teesta Setalvad: Dozens of letters pour in every week
  9 August, by siawi3

  Well-wishers including fellow activists, students and ordinary citizens are sending postcards

• USA: Rikers Prisoners Strike: ‘Free ‘Em All, Shut Down Prisons’
  30 March 2020, by siawi3

  On March 22 two dorms at Rikers Island went on strike. Their statement reads: “Two dorms of 45 inmates at Rikers are refusing to leave our dorms for work duties or for meals. We must take these actions in protest of the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and cleaning supplies provided to inmates, the crowded living conditions imposed on us..." Those directly affected by these conditions point to things officials can do to protect the incarcerated population. When that fails to happen prisoners face no choice but to take matters into their own hands.

• Israel: Palestinian prisoner Daud Al-Khatib dies after 18 years in Israeli jail
  6 September 2020, by siawi3

  A Palestinian political prisoner, 45-year-old Daud Al-Khatib, died in the Israeli Ofer prison in the late hours of Wednesday, September 2, just months ahead of his release after more than 18 years of imprisonment. As many as 226 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons and detention centers since 1967. Many of them died due to the lack of timely and sufficient medical care. Close to 5,000 Palestinians are still currently being held in Israeli prisons.

• UK: Assange is still in jail
  26 June 2021, by siawi3

  ulian Assange Reaches End Of Prison Sentence, Judge Refuses To Release Him - Truth Revolution

• UK: Barbaric Decisions: Coronavirus, Refusing Bail and Julian Assange
  31 March 2020, 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.”

• UK-USA-global: Why Julian Assange must urgently be freed
  2 May 2020, by siawi3

  “The life of my partner, Julian Assange, is at severe risk.”. “I want my children to believe that inequitable treatment is not tolerated in mature democracies”

• Iran-Australia: Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer ’released by Iran’ in prisoner swap
  26 November 2020, by siawi3

  According to Iranian state media, she was exchanged for an Iranian businessman and two Iranian citizens “who had been detained abroad”.

• UK: Hands Around Parliament for Assange
  7 October, by siawi3

  The total destruction of Julian Assange as a demonstration of the untrammeled hegemonic power of the United States is very much the aim of the political establishment.

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