Adriaan Alsema (2022-04-30). Colombia's conflict victims frustrate Otoniel's extradition to US. colombiareports.com Colombia's highest administrative court ordered President Ivan Duque to suspend the extradition of jailed warlord "Otoniel" at the request of victim organizations. According to the order of the Council of…

Lynda Carson (2022-04-30). John Stewart Company Seeks Property Managers. indybay.org Jailbirds:…

Lynda Carson (2022-04-30). Property managers operating illegally face $20,000 in fines and or 6 months in jail. indybay.org Jailbirds:…

Center for Biological Diversity (2022-04-30). Legal Actions Challenge Huge Logging Project in Los Padres National Forest. indybay.org Three Lawsuits Filed Against Forest Service for Failing to Protect Environment, Cultural Resources on Pine Mountain, Reyes Peak…

Rick Rozoff (2022-04-29). Saakashvili returned to Georgia to open second front with Russia: ruling party. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaApril 29, 2022 GD: Saakashvili Returned to Drag Georgia into Forthcoming Ukraine War Georgian Dream chairperson Irakli Kobakhidze said anyone who wants or demands the release of jailed Mikheil Saakashvili wants "a war to rage in Georgia," responding to mounting calls for the medical transfer of the ex-President abroad over his worsening health condition. …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-29). 3,723 prisoners freed in Egypt including prominent leftist Hossam Mones. peoplesdispatch.org Over 3,700 prisoners including prominent leftist journalist-activist Hossam Mones were released in Egypt, as per news reports on Thursday, April 27. This is just days after the release of 41 political prisoners from illegal pre-trial detention. According to Egyptian media, the Ministry of Interior announced the release of 3,723 prisoners through presidential pardon on the occasion of the Sinai Liberation Day which falls on April 25. This day has been observed in Egypt every year since 1982 as a public holiday to commemorate Israel handing back control of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt after years of occupation foll…

Travis Nell (2022-04-29). "We make poverty wages and we wanted more:" Chicago grad students strike, win major gains. liberationnews.org GEO began their second strike in three years on April 18 for a fair contract, citing low pay, excessive fees, and lack of protection from harassment and discrimination as major issues.

Staff (2022-04-29). Iranians mark Quds Day with massive rallies. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA) — Millions of Iranians from various provinces across the country took to the streets on Friday to mark Quds Day rallies in voice solidarity with Palestinians and their decades-long oppression by the Israeli regime.

Joe Piette (2022-04-29). Pennsylvania prisons: a fight for humane release policies. workers.org Philadelphia Joe Piette and Bradford Gamble. Credit: Rupalee Rashatwar Bradford Gamble is out of prison after serving 46 years and is now living with his nephew, Shaquan J. Jordan, in West Philadelphia. He is terminally ill with metastatic colon cancer that has spread to his liver. Gamble is one of only . . . |

Staff (2022-04-29). Victory for Palestine: French State Council suspends dissolution of Collectif Palestine Vaincra! samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes our comrades in the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and the Committee Against the Dissolution of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra upon the occasion of this important victory for Palestine. The French Council of State, the body that hears legal appeals against the dissolution of an organization by the French government, ruled …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-29). Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to five years in prison in first of 11 corruption cases. peoplesdispatch.org The military has accused the former head of state of election fraud, violating the Official Secrets Act and several other offenses that could potentially lead to her being behind bars for decades…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-04-29). This Man Pulled the Trigger, But Did the CIA and DGSE Put the Idea in His Head and the Gun in His Hand? covertactionmagazine.com On April 6, 2022, Burkina Faso's ex-President Blaise Compaoré was tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for …

Center for Biological Diversity (2022-04-29). Legal Actions Challenge Huge Logging Project in Los Padres National Forest. indybay.org Three Lawsuits Filed Against Forest Service for Failing to Protect Environment, Cultural Resources on Pine Mountain, Reyes Peak…

Joe Piette (2022-04-29). Pennsylvania prisons: a fight for humane release policies. workers.org Philadelphia Joe Piette and Bradford Gamble. Credit: Rupalee Rashatwar Bradford Gamble is out of prison after serving 46 years and is now living with his nephew, Shaquan J. Jordan, in West Philadelphia. He is terminally ill with metastatic colon cancer that has spread to his liver. Gamble is one of only . . . |

JANET (2022-04-28). LIVE on Monday 5/2 @ 2pm EST : Reckoning with the Ukraine government's armed Nazi militias. iacenter.org Register to join the discussion now! REGISTER NOW! MONDAY, MAY 2ND @ 2PM EASTERN Join the discussion via Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KS1g5l_hQi-kXZ0Jm-w3Cg Reckoning with the Ukraine government's armed Nazi militias Join the International Action Center for live discussion with anti-fascist Ukrainians on the 2014 massacre at the Odessa House of Labor and the continuing struggle Featuring: Leonid Ilderkin Ukrainian communist in exile, member of coordination council of the Union of Political Refugees and Political Prisoners of Ukraine Phil Wilayto Author and activist, coordinator of the Odessa…

Staff (2022-04-28). Outrageous: Bashir al-Khairy's administrative detention extended for six more months. Take action for freedom! samidoun.net On Thursday, 28 April, Israeli occupation forces renewed the administrative detention of Palestinian leader, lawyer, leftist and human rights defender Bashir al-Khairy for an additional six months. His fellow prisoners have already announced escalating steps of protest to demand his immediate release, and the extension of his detention comes two days after reports that 80-year-old …

WSWS (2022-04-28). Human rights attorney Steven Donziger released after nearly 1,000 days in arbitrary detention. wsws.org After he was released from home confinement on Monday, Donziger vowed to continue the fight to force Chevron to comply with the terms of a $9.5 billion lawsuit won in 2011 on behalf of 30,000 people living in the Ecuadorian rainforest.

Amy Goodman (2022-04-28). Calls Grow for Biden to Win WNBA Star Brittney Griner's Release From Russia. truthout.org Image Credit: Enrico Calderoni/AFLO SPORT | The Biden administration participated in a prisoner swap with Russia this week, freeing a Russian pilot who was jailed in Connecticut on drug charges in return for a Marine veteran imprisoned in Russia since 2019. Meanwhile, the fate of jailed basketball player Brittney Griner remains unclear. The Phoenix Mercury center is one of the biggest stars of the WNBA, but both the league and the Biden administration have said little about her case since she was arrested at a Russian airport on February 17 on allegations of carrying vape cartridges containing cannabis oil. "Ther…

Jake Tucker (2022-04-28). Melissa Lucio granted stay of execution, but threat to her life remains. liberationnews.org The case of Melissa Lucio reflects the larger racist, sexist bent of the justice system, which imprisons countless innocent people.

_____ (2022-04-28). Notes From Wartorn Ethiopia, Part III. popularresistance.org The discovery of mass graves and underground prisons in Ethiopia has exposed the crimes of the Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front or TPLF, the U.S. puppets who tyrannized Ethiopia for 27 years with divide-and-conquer ethnic politics from 1991 to 2018, when a popular uprising forced them from power. The TPLF then retreated to Tigray Region and, in November 2020, started the ongoing civil war by attacking the national army's Northern Command. | US officialdom and both state and corporate media in the US have since described the Ethiopian conflict as the government's persecution of the Tigrayan People's Front and the…

Megan Lucas (2022-04-28). The Prison System Fails Incarcerated Pregnant Women. indybay.org This article gives a look on how incarcerated pregnant women are treated poorly and what can be done to fix it.

Adriaan Alsema (2022-04-28). The retired general's lies before Colombia's war crimes tribunal. colombiareports.com Colombia's war crimes tribunal JEP reminded a retired army general on Wednesday that he can't lie his way out of prison in a mass murder investigation. Retired General Paulino Coronado…

Arlette Martinez (2022-04-28). Death Penalty Should be Abolished. indybay.org The death penalty should be abolished. There are innocent people being imprisoned, and many times have been executed. In addition, death penalty has racial bias and the capital punishment does not solve any issue. The death penalty is being used unfairly, and killing another human violates the right to life.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-28). Rights groups condemn life sentence to Turkish philanthropist-activist Osman Kavala. peoplesdispatch.org Osman Kavala and seven others were sentenced to long terms in prison on charges of "conspiring to overthrow the government" during the 2013 Gezi protests and involvement in the 2016 coup attempt…