¡ATENCIÓN! La lista nueva en español abajo de prisioneros políticos de los Estados Unidos éstá en proceso de traducción.Hace un clic acá para ver una lista corriente en inglés. La lista actual (en inglés) tiene listado 99 prisioneros políticos, incluyendo 39 de ellos incarcelados en la prisión estadounidense de Guantánao en Cuba ocupado. Leonard Peltier,…
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…
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 to demand that he and other prisoners be…
Alliance for Global Justice and La Voz de los de Abajo Invite You to join us for an Urgent Political Prisoner / Human Rights Accompaniment Delegation to Honduras April 8-15, 2018 Since the November 2017 election, Honduras has been plunged into a political and human rights crisis caused by what Honduran human rights organizations are…
David Swanson interviews Nasim, AfGJ’s Prison Imperialism Project Coordinator, for Talk Nation Radio. Listen to hear them discuss the roots of Prison Imperialism in Colombia, it’s expansion all around the world, the US’s true motives for managing the world’s prisons, how activists can get involved, and more.
AfGJ calls the spread of the US mass incarceration model “Prison Imperialism.” We’re referring to the prison programs themselves, as well as the imperialist dynamic between the US and the affected countries. These programs exist in the context of increased police and border militarization, US military bases, neoliberal economic policies, and economic extraction from poor…
Sábado, 22 de julio de 2017 Por Nasim Chatha, Truthout | Informe Read the original version English here or here. La nueva penitenciaría federal en Santa Bárbara, Honduras, ocupa una franja de terreno entre una carretera y unas colinas boscosas. “El Pozo”, como se le conoce popularmente, está rodeado de alambre de púas y tiene dos…
By July Henriquez, attorney and director of Lazos de Dignidad, one of AfGJ’s closest partnered organizations. July has been defending Colombia’s political prisoners for over eleven years. The following is translated and reprinted with permission from Fundación Lazos de Dignidad. http://fundacionlazosdedignidad.org/Articulos.html Trans. Nasim Chatha Capital and the Prison: A Lethal Mix for the Poor The prison…
Nasim Chatha (AfGJ Prison Imperialism Coordinator) for Truthout : Leer en español aqui. The new federal penitentiary in Santa Barbara, Honduras, occupies a strip of land between a highway and cloudy, forested hills. “El Pozo,” or The Pit, as it’s known, is surrounded by barbed wire and has two additional checkpoints beyond the first gate.…
