The Alliance for Global Justice is pleased to announce that Jesús Santrich has been freed from his jail cell in Colombia. This is a major victory for supporters of the peace process. The arrest of Santrich was an attack on the authority of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace court (JEP). The threat of his extradition…
by James Patrick Jordan In what may constitute a mortal blow to Colombia’s peace process, President Ivan Duque has defied the order by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) to releaseJesús Santrich, aka Seuxis Hernández Solarte, from prison. Santrich is a negotiator and former insurgent who helped craft the accord to end more than five…
by James Patrick Jordan Overview The United States government has deep ties with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s penal system, and with the entire Ministry of Interior, which oversees the kingdom’s police, courts, and jails. The American Correctional Association (ACA), a trade organization that collaborates and contracts with the US government, is likewise linked with…
NSCAG debunks Amnesty claims about political prisoners NSCAG News | on: Saturday, 22 September 2018 By Louise Richards, Trade Union and Communications Coordinator The Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group (NSCAG) is based in the UK and has a long history of building trade union and broader solidarity with Nicaragua. In its latest attempt to demonise Nicaragua, Amnesty International…
Read the original Spanish Click HERE to add your name to this declaration! We, the People’s Human Rights Observatory (Observatorio de los Derechos Humanos), declare our solidarity with the worldwide resistance to prison imperialism and reject the expansion of the United States model of mass incarceration. Likewise, we express our support for the demands of…
¡Agrega su nombre a esta declaración! Desde el Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos declaramos nuestra solidaridad con la resistencia mundial al imperialismo carcelario y rechazamos la expansión del modelo estadounidense de encarcelamiento masivo. Asimismo, expresamos nuestro apoyo a las exigencias de los prisioneros del centro penitenciario La Tramacúa, Valledupar, Colombia, y los prisioneros…
***Actualizado 21 agosto de 2018: Nos complace reportar la retirada de tres personas de nuestra lista porque están fuera de la cárcel en libertad condicional. Estos incuyen a Herman Bell, activista de las Black Panthers (Panteras Negras) y el Black Liberation Army (Ejercito de Liberación Negro), quien fue puesto en libertad condicional el 27 de…
***Updated on August 21, 2018: We are happy to report the removal of three persons from our list because they are out of prison on parole. These include Black Panther and Black Liberation Army activist Herman Bell who was paroled on April 27, 2018; Debbie Africa, one of the Move 9, who was granted parole…
Mostafa Afzalzadeh is an Iranian investigative journalist and filmmaker. He created a documentary film entitled Manufacturing Dissent: The Truth About Syria, as well as a documentary about the ‘99 percent Movement’ in the US, which was broadcast by the Iran’s National TV and won the first prize at Amar Film Festival. He interviewed AfGJ’s Nasim Chatha…
URGENT ACTION! Update #5 – March 4, 2018 Honduran Prison Guards Tear Gas Prisoners Demanding Water. Political Prisoner Edwin Espinal on Day #2 of Hunger Strike Demanding to See Physician. Demand that the Red Cross Enter the Prison! On March 3rd, day #46 of his unjust incarceration, political prisoner Edwin Espinal began a hunger strike…
