The move was announced by the US military in a statement on Monday. The Pentagon described the release as a “transfer from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the Kingdom of Morocco.” No charges have ever been brought against the Moroccan national, who spent some 19 years in the …
Read More »Drama over Amnesty’s Navalny move raises important point: prisoner of conscience tag shouldn’t be reserved only for those we like
A prisoner of conscience, simply defined, is somebody who is imprisoned because of his or her religious or political beliefs. The term is value-free. It doesn’t matter what you believe, or the nature of your character; if your beliefs land you in jail, you’re a prisoner of conscience. You can …
Read More »Row as NGO Amnesty says Navalny not ‘prisoner of conscience’ due to far-right views & Western commentators claim RT is behind it!
On Tuesday evening, a statement from Amnesty International was published by Grayzone journalist Aaron Mate. In it, the human rights group said that, “in light of new information that has emerged recently, [it is] no longer able to consider Alexey Navalny as a prisoner of conscience.” While they will continue …
Read More »Amnesty International says it will not call Navalny ‘prisoner of conscience’ anymore over his HATE SPEECH
The group said it “is no longer able to consider” Navalny a prisoner of conscience because he “advocated violence and discrimination” and has never retracted any of such statements he made in the past. It maintained, however, that it still believes that his latest imprisonment was linked to his anti-government …
Read More »About the beatings in the colony of Kokorin and Mamaev said the former prisoner
About the correctional colony IK-4 in the Belgorod region, where recently transferred the players Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin, told in an interview to “Soviet sport”, her former prisoner Valentin Sokolov. According to him, there are harsh rules, almost all newly arrived prisoners are beaten. “Wooden stick” head of the …
Read More »Prisoner in Russia Ukrainian Klyh on hunger strike
According to the mother of Cliche, fasting is a call, a plea, a cry for help addressed to the new President. Ukrainian political prisoner Stanislav Klyh, sentenced in Russia to 20 years in prison, announced a hunger strike in protest against intolerable conditions of detention. This was reported by human …
Read More »Putin has become a prisoner of his own system
Old skills, decisions and habits are driving not only a leader, but also the entire hierarchy in a situation which they cannot control. A symbol of our current political cycle counting went exactly a year ago, with the presidential vote on March 18, 2018, is the story of a girl …
Read More »The beating of a prisoner in a Russian prison: latest details
Torture in the Yaroslavl colonies were recorded on the Registrar to report to the leadership.The video of the brutal beating of a prisoner Evgeny Makarov in the penal colony №1 of Yaroslavl was conducted to report to senior management. Such testimony was given at the interrogations of the arrested prison …
Read More »From the remand prison in Rostov-na-Donu disappeared Ukrainian prisoner
In jail lawyer of the Crimean Tatar human rights activist said that the Ukrainian was taken away. While it did not specify where. In Rostov-on-don (Russian Federation) vanished prisoner Ukrainian Emir-Usein cook, which is involved in Simferopol on Hizb ut-Tahrir. On Tuesday, July 10, said the lawyer Alexander Popkov in …
Read More »Ukrainian prisoner of Mushroom beat in Rostov-na-Donu
Counsel attended a meeting with Paul. During the transfer in Rostov-on-don 20-year-old citizen of Ukraine Pavel Mushroom, arrested in Russia, was severely beaten by Russian convicts. His condition rapidly deteriorated. About this in Facebook wrote to his father Igor Mushroom. “The lawyer Marina Dubrovina made it to jail-4 out to …
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