2022-01-17: News Headlines

Staff (2022-01-17). Poroshenko returns to Ukraine, faces prosecution for 'treason'. rt.com Ukraine's former president could be sent to jail after scheduled courtroom appearance | Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, declared wanted last month for a number of serious crimes, including high treason, has flown back to Kiev in time for a court hearing that could see him remanded in custody. | Poroshenko, who led Ukraine from 2014 to 2019, left the country last month around the same time a summons was issued for his interrogation. He is being investigated over his alleged involvement in the funding of separatist fighters in the Donbass, in eastern Ukraine, through the illegal sale of coal. This,…

PART (2022-01-17). Thursday 1/20: 'My Mother's Experience': Author Toby Asai Loftus on WWII Japanese American Incarceration. indybay.org Online event…

Nihonmachi Outreach Committee of San Jose (2022-01-17). Saturday 2/19: San Jose Day of Remembrance: 80th Anniversary EO 9066 WWII Japanese American Incarceration. indybay.org Virtual/online remembrance program…

sputniknews (2022-01-17). Netanyahu Mulls Plea Bargain But What Will it Mean for Israel's Political Scene? sputniknews.com According to reports, the former prime minister would evade a prison if a plea bargain ends up being reached. For now, the main friction revolves around the charge of moral turpitude, an official declaration that would bar the 72-year old leader from politics for the next seven years.

Binoy Kampmark (2022-01-17). Enduring stain: Guantánamo military prison turns 20. greenleft.org.au The first prisoners of the "War on Terror" — declared by US president George W Bush — began arriving at Camp X-Ray prison at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on January 11, 2002, writes Binoy Kampmark.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-01-16). Dual national Adelkhah retuned to prison for violating rules. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 16 (MNA) — Secretary of Iranian Judiciary's Human Rights Council has said Iranian-French citizen Fariba Adelkhah has been jailed again after violating the limits of house arrest many times.

Leon Kunstenaar (2022-01-16). Monday 1/17: Civil Rights Through Art and Music w/ MoAD. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…

Martina Burtscher (2022-01-16). Even After Release, Guantánamo Survivors Live Under Surveillance and in Anguish. truthout.org It is a sad fact that it requires a major anniversary, two decades on from the arrival of the first prisoners in hoods and orange jumpsuits at Guantánamo Bay's Camp X-Ray prison, for the media and the U.S. public to pay attention to Guantánamo and the The 741 men who have been released have been almost entirely forgotten by the public. The truth i…

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