Oleksiy Arunyan, Scheer Post. (2023-10-07). In Occupation, They Cared For The Vulnerable. popularresistance.org When the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman was occupied for five months last year, Valentyna Tkach and Tetiana Potapenko stayed behind. They volunteered to help their vulnerable neighbours. They cared for elderly residents, contacted the Russian occupation administration to ask for food and coal for them, and even buried dead bodies. | Now, both women are in detention, having been accused by Ukraine's Secret Service of collaboration with Russia — a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. | Tkach and Potapenko were volunteers long before the occupation. Since Soviet times, Lyman's population has self-org…

Niko Georgiades, Unicorn Riot. (2023-10-07). Be Their Voices Presser: 'No More Jail Deaths!'. popularresistance.org St. Paul, MN — Five years after losing her son Hardel Sherrell to medical malpractice and improper care while in a Minnesota jail, Del Shea Perry leads another protest against in-custody deaths. At least 15 people have died this year while inside Minnesota jails and at least 65 since 2018, according to Be Their Voices, Perry's non-profit. | A press conference titled No More Jail Deaths! organized by Be Their Voices took place on Oct. 4 at noon central in front of the Minnesota Department of Corrections building in St. Paul. In a media release about the press conference, Perry says: "The Hardel Sherell Act w…

Jewish Voice for Peace (2023-10-08). Sunday 10/8: Power Hour for Gaza: The Root of Violence is Oppression Teach-in. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

presstv.ir (2023-10-08). Indonesia, Pakistan call for end to Israeli aggression against Palestinians. presstv.ir Indonesia and Pakistan have called on the Israeli regime to immediately halt its brutal aggression against Palestinians.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2023-10-07). PSL statement: Free Palestine, free all Palestinian political prisoners, end all U.S. aid to the Israeli apartheid regime! liberationnews.org The unrelenting oppression, murder, torture and occupation carried out by the Israeli apartheid regime has precipitated a counter-offensive by Palestinian resistance forces.

Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. (2023-10-09). Palestine: The Resistance Rises Toward Revolution, Return And Liberation. popularresistance.org As the morning dawns on 7 October 2023, the resistance is rising throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza with a comprehensive offensive confronting the occupier by land and air, taking control of Palestinian land, seizing occupation settlers and soldiers and launching thousands of missiles as Palestinian resistance forces fight to advance return and the liberation of Palestine. | The new resistance operation, titled the Al-Aqsa Flood by Mohammed Deif, commander in chief of the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, comes on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war in which Egypt…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-10-08). Hundreds killed in Israel, Gaza after surprise resistance raid. electronicintifada.net Hamas deputy chief says enough Israeli captives are being held in Gaza to secure release of all political prisoners.

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-10-08). Right-wing rallies against Sanchez and amnesty in Spain. plenglish.com The protest in Barcelona was, above all, a claim of the conservative Popular Party (PP) and its leader Alberto Nuñez Feijoo. The latter has just lost his Prime Minister's investiture attempt in the Congress of Legislators in two failed votes, thus the PP's aim was to undermine at all costs another executive that would head the current PM at the Palace of Moncloa. | Backed by the extreme VOX right and other minor conservative formations, slogans were heard in Barcelona against Sanchez and the whole range of leftists who support him. | The cries of "No to amnesty" and "Puigdemont to prison," prevailed in the demon…

presstv.ir (2023-10-08). Hamas boasts of large number of Israelis taken captive during blitz. presstv.ir Hamas says it has enough Israeli captives to swap them for the release of all Palestinian prisoners.

presstv.ir (2023-10-08). Hamas: Number of Israelis taken prisoner many times 'more than dozens'. presstv.ir Hamas says the number of Israelis taken captive in its ongoing operation against the regime is many times more than "dozens."

Christina Carrega (2023-10-07). This Law Gives Prosecutors Power to Undo Decades of Harsh or Racist Sentencing. truthout.org Three weeks after Thanh Tran's 18th birthday, he rang a drug dealer's doorbell. In an instant, Tran was caught up in a gang-related attempted murder and attempted robbery case that could have landed him in a California state prison for 75 years to life. Prosecutors presented Tran with a plea bargain of 17 years in prison, even though he didn't pull the trigger during the 2011 incident. |

Editor (2023-10-07). How Sharing a Meal Cuts Through the Violence in Prison. scheerpost.com

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-07). Leaked Documents Reveal Ukraine's Zelensky Tried to Hire Terrorists in Iraq. libya360.wordpress.com Steven Sahiounie Details of the recent Ukrainian-Iraqi talks have appeared in the Middle Eastern media. According to almasryalyoum.com, on September 27, a YouTube video appeared, which claims that Ukrainian president Zelenskyy has been trying to recruit certain Iraqi prisoners into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the video, the prisoners in question are convicted terrorists and ISIS…

Linn Washington (2023-10-07). Smack Down for Efforts to Silence Mumia Abu-Jamal. thiscantbehappening.net Providence, RI — The decades long efforts to erode the public credibility of U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal sustained a substantial setback recently at an unlikely location: an Ivy League university. Brown University, the Ivy League institution located in Providence, Rhode Island, opened a unique exhibition on September 28, 2023, at its John Hay Library, … |

Staff (2023-10-07). Calendar of Resistance for Palestine! Events and actions around the world. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all Palestinian, Arab and international supporters of Palestine to escalate their organizing and struggle to stand with the heroic Palestinian resistance and confront colonial Zionist violence and imperialist complicity. (The list below will be constantly updated — please share the link with your friends and comrades!) These events are organized …

presstv.ir (2023-10-07). Hamas boasts of large number of Israelis taken captive during blitz. presstv.ir Hamas says it has enough Israeli captives to swap them for the release of all Palestinian prisoners.

People's Dispatch. (2023-10-06). International Uproar Following Mass Raids And Arrest Of Indian Journalists. popularresistance.org In the hours following the raids of over 100 journalists affiliated with Indian leftist outlet Newsclick, international outlet Peoples Dispatch, and Tricontinental Research Services, and the detention of around 50, leading academics and journalists from across the world have expressed solidarity and outrage. | The coordinated repressive action was carried out as part of an investigation under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, a draconian law which has been widely criticized by human rights organizations in India and internationally as it undermines civil liberties and rights. Newsclick editor-in-chief Pra…

Staff (2023-10-06). Escalating struggle in the occupation prisons: Administrative detainees conduct solidarity strike with Kayed Fasfous as Ben Gvir raids Gilboa prison. samidoun.net The Palestinian prisoners' movement is continuing to resist occupation attacks behid bars as Kayed Fasfous enters his 65th day on hunger strike. On Thursday, 5 October, the Israeli occupation's Ofer military court yet again rejected Kayed Fasfous' appeal against his administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial, even as his health has continued to deteriorate. …

Editor (2023-10-05). United States: End detention of Venezuelan Special Envoy, UN experts say. mronline.org Saab was appointed as a Special Envoy by the Government of Venezuela in April 2018 to undertake official missions in Iran to secure humanitarian deliveries to Venezuela, including of food and medicine.

Karen J. Greenberg (2023-10-05). Why Is the US Taking So Long to Close Guantánamo? truthout.org For 18 years, I've been writing articles for TomDispatch on the never-ending story of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility. And here's my ultimate takeaway (for the moment): 21 years after that grim offshore prison of injustice was set up in Cuba in response to the 9/11 attacks and the capture of figures supposedly linked to them, and despite the expressed desire of three presidents — George W. |

OHCFHR (2023-10-05). United States: End Detention of Venezuelan Special Envoy, UN Experts Say. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-10-05). Palestinian administrative detainees launch solidarity hunger strike amid concerns over health of Kayed al-Fasfous. peoplesdispatch.org Palestinians held under illegal and arbitrary administrative detention across Israeli jails carried out a one-day hunger strike on October 4, in solidarity with fellow detainee Kayed al-Fasfous. 34-year-old Fasfous entered his 63rd day on hunger strike on Wednesday in protest of his continued detention by the Israeli occupation, amid growing concerns over his physical and mental health. | In a statement on October 3, the National Committee for the Prisoners' Movement stated, "After our bitter experience in the assassination of the heroic martyr, Khader Adnan… the prisoners' movement of all kinds and in all pris…

teleSUR, rzr, MS (2023-10-05). Familiares presentan recursos para liberar detenidos en El Salvador. telesurtv.net De todos los detenidos documentados, solo uno fue indultado por problemas de salud, mientras de los demás no se ha recibido respuesta por parte del Gobierno de Bukele.

Eve Ottenberg (2023-10-06). Past Time to End the Persecution of Julian Assange. counterpunch.org It's long past time for the U.S. and U.K. to free Julian Assange. His flagrantly unjust incarceration is a global scandal, and the world is quite upset about it. Indeed, on September 19 at the United Nations, heads of state denounced this phony prosecution for the fraud and subterfuge it is — an assault on

Staff (2023-10-06). As Fraud Trial Gets Underway, Trump Tries to Provoke Judge to Jail Him: David Cay Johnston. democracynow.org We get an update on Donald Trump's civil fraud trial with Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston. New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking to fine Trump $250 million and is asking for a permanent ban on Trump family members running a business in New York. The outcome of the trial could put the future of the Trump Organization in jeopardy. Trump himself has already been barred from posting or speaking publicly about the trial after his public comments about James, which she described as "race-baiting," and about Judge Arthur Engoron. Johnston, the author of thr…

Staff (2023-10-06). Medical Students & Survivors Demand Columbia U. Notify All Patients of Jailed OB-GYN Sex Abuse Record. democracynow.org On Wednesday, hundreds of medical students and sexual assault survivors of former university obstetrician Robert Hadden protested at Columbia University's campus calling for accountability during the inauguration ceremony of the university's first woman president. We speak with medical students and survivors demanding Columbia take action to notify all former patients of Hadden about his previous sexual assault convictions by the November 23 deadline of New York's Adult Survivors Act. "Wouldn't you want to know if your OB-GYN had sexually assaulted 500 other patients?" asks survivor…

Staff (2023-10-06). 300+ More Sex Abuse Survivors Sue Columbia U. & Jailed OB-GYN Robert Hadden. democracynow.org We speak to the attorney suing Columbia University and its affiliated hospitals on behalf of some 300 more patients who say they were sexually assaulted by former Columbia University obstetrician Robert Hadden over two decades while Columbia shielded the sexual predator. Anthony T. DiPietro filed a new lawsuit against the university and its affiliated hospitals earlier this week. "Columbia knew from the beginning," DiPietro says of Hadden's abuse and its subsequent cover-up. Survivors, he continues, "shouldn't be having to carry this burden around with them for their entire lives.&#8…

Staff (2023-10-06). Woman, Life, Freedom: Narges Mohammadi, Imprisoned Iranian Activist, Awarded 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. democracynow.org Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her work fighting against women's oppression in Iran. Mohammadi will not be able to personally receive the prize because she is currently incarcerated in Iran for her protest activities. To share more about Mohammadi, the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement and the potential impact of the Nobel on Mohammadi's imprisonment, we speak with Negar Mortazavi, an Iranian American journalist, host of The Iran Podcast and senior fellow at the Center for International Policy.

Jeffrey St. Clair (2023-10-06). The Mind-Breakers: the Case of Ramzi Bin al-Shibh. counterpunch.org On the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) forces raided several houses in Karachi, hunting for suspected members of Al Qaeda. In one of the incursions, the Pakistanis captured a young Yemeni man named Ramzi bin Al-Shibh. Three days later, the Pakistanis turned Bin al-Shibh and Hassan bin Attash, a 17-year-old Saudi, over to the CIA, who renditioned the pair into what was known as the Dark Prison outside Kabul, where, according to an account Bin al-Shibh later gave to the International Red Cross, he was stripped of his clothes, denied food and water and kept shackled…

Animal Liberation Press Office (2023-10-05). California "Game Breeders" Who Hold Native Wildlife Captive. indybay.org The following businesses profit from imprisoning thousands of Pheasants, Ducks, Doves, Pigeons, Partridges, Quail, Turkey, and Geese.

Editor (2023-10-05). As a Black Woman Accused of Killing a White Man, I Was Never Innocent Until Proven Guilty. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-10-05). As Incarcerated Women, We're Subjected to State Rape. scheerpost.com

Staff (2023-10-05). Joint Statement: We Denounce UN Security Council's Approval to Send a Kenya-led Mission to Haiti. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is one of many signatories to the statement below, issued by the Black Alliance for Peace: WE DENOUNCE UN SECURITY COUNCIL'S APPROVAL TO SEND A KENYA-LED MISSION TO HAITI We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the decision by the United States and its allies to deploy a foreign military force to …

Staff (2023-10-05). Musaab Abu Atta speaks to "Palestine Today" about political bans in Germany. samidoun.net Musaab Abu Atta, a leading member of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, spoke to "Palestine Today" TV today during their news update, speaking about the political repression he and his comrades are facing in Germany. The Berlin immigration office imposed a comprehensive political ban …

Yasmin Abusayma (2023-10-05). Israel blocks families from burying dead prisoners. electronicintifada.net Policy of withholding bodies worsens grief.