(2024-07-03). CUNY Encampment Felony Charges Could Set A Dangerous Precedent. popularresistance.org Earlier this month, the Manhattan district attorney's office dropped felony charges against nine pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at City College's encampment on the fateful police raid orchestrated on April 30. Thirteen protestors, however, could still serve felonies, including up to nine years of jail. While organizers have faced legal threats nationally, CUNY students — who, in addition to being predominantly POC and working class, are consistently some of the most militant student intifada members — have been hit with the highest charges. This sends a message: when it comes to Zionist repressio…
(2024-07-03). Multiple States Are Building New Women's Prisons; Can They Be Stopped? popularresistance.org Tiff Harrington spent 15 years of her life under Department of Corrections (DOC) supervision in Vermont, where she gave birth to two children while incarcerated at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility—a prison with a particularly bad reputation. | In 2019, Vermont DOC came under fire when Seven Days, a local independent newspaper, reported that guards at Chittenden Regional engaged in drug use and sexually abused the incarcerated women they oversaw. Public outcry only grew when an incarcerated woman named Penny Powers filed a whistleblower complaint against former Chittenden Regional "shift supervisor…
(2024-07-03). Understanding Israel's "System of Domination" theintercept.com The process of Jewish expansion over Palestinian land has involved maintaining a "system of domination," says author Nathan Thrall on this week's Intercepted. In order to constrict "Palestinians into tighter and tighter space" over the decades, Israel has deployed a strict permit system, movement restrictions, walls, fences, segregated roads, and punitive actions such as arrests and detentions, even of children. | In "
(2024-07-03). US Prisons and Jails Exposed to an Increasing Number of Hazardous Heat Days, Study Says. scheerpost.com 
(2024-07-03). Oh No, Now the US Has to Stop Imprisoning Ex-Presidents for Their Crimes! globalresearch.ca
(2024-07-03). Fill Roseville Jail with Calls. indybay.org Roseville PD violently assaulted and arrested protesters, call the South Placer County Jail to demand their freedom.
(2024-07-03). Supreme Court Decision Guts Key Civil Rights Protection for Unhoused People. indybay.org ACLU lawsuit challenging San Francisco' costly and ineffective response to homelessness will continue…
(2024-07-03). Monday 7/1: Briefing on Louisiana Ten Commandments Lawsuit & Challenging Christian Nationalist Threats. indybay.org Online: www.mobilize.us/au/event/638774/…
(2024-07-03). Tuesday 7/2: Pack the Courtroom for Arrested Roseville Protesters. indybay.org Department 20 Placer County Superior Court, 10820 Justice Center Dr, Roseville, CAb…
(2024-07-03). Lawsuit Challenges Rubber-Stamped Extensions for California Offshore Oil Leases. indybay.org Agencies Ignored Harms From Aging Infrastructure, Spill Risk…
(2024-07-03). Our Anti-Nuclear War Vigil Behind Bars. counterpunch.org 
Susan Crane (left) and Susan van der Hijden at a past peace camp at Bàºchel air base Here in Rohrbach prison we are awakened by the sounds of doves and other birds, giving the illusion that all is well in the world, until other sounds, keys rattling, doors being shut, and guards doing the morning
(2024-07-03). Letter from London: Attempts at the Apolitical. counterpunch.org 
A number of times over the past five years I have woken up in the middle of the night wondering how Julian Assange was getting on in nearby Belmarsh Prison. (I have written about this here before.) I wondered again last week, only to discover — like one of those dramatic slam cuts in a
(2024-07-03). Anti-Kremlin Protester Jailed for 'Russian Warship, Go F**k Yourself' Tattoo. themoscowtimes.com Pro-war bloggers published a video of Stepan Zimin's tattoo bearing the phrase that became a rallying cry for Ukrainian resistance against Russia's invasion.
(2024-07-03). Ex-US pilot in Australia faces extradition to face trumped-up charges of assisting China. wsws.org Daniel Duggan, a former US Marine pilot, confronts dubious charges of training Chinese military pilots that could see him jailed for 65 years.
(2024-07-03). Kevin Bui gets 60 years in jail for killing Senegalese family in Colorado house fire over stolen iPhone. scmp.com 'We can't be normal because of you,' a victim's relative told Bui, one of the three teens involved in the 2020 attack that killed five people.
(2024-07-03). UK baby killer Lucy Letby found guilty of trying to kill another child. scmp.com Former nurse Letby, Britain's most prolific serial child killer of modern times, was found guilty in August of murdering 7 babies and trying to kill 6 more. She was jailed for life.
(2024-07-03). Iran Blacklists US Individuals over Suppression of Pro-Palestine Protests. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran imposed sanctions on a number of American individuals for their role in clamping down on academic movements in support of Palestine.
(2024-07-03). Kansas School District Disciplined Black And Disabled Students More Severely Than Others, DOJ Says. newsone.com 
Source: Joe Sohm/Visions of America / Getty | On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced that it
(2024-07-03). Tunisia's Saied sets presidential election date for October 6. aljazeera.com The vote comes as many of Saied's political opponents and media critics are in jail or facing prosecution.
(2024-07-03). Malaysia's Najib loses bid to serve corruption sentence under house arrest. aljazeera.com Jailed former leader claimed the Malaysian king issued a royal order authorising his transfer to house arrest.
(2024-07-03). Juez en Ecuador revisará petición de habeas corpus a favor de Glas. radiohc.cu La Habana, 3 jul (RHC) El análisis de la más reciente solicitud de habeas corpus para liberar al exvicepresidente de Ecuador Jorge Glas, quien se encuentra detenido en una cárcel de máxima seguridad y en una situación preocupante de salud, tendrá lugar hoy.
(2024-07-03). Israel reserves administrative detention for non-Jewish suspects. newarab.com 
Israel has moved forward with its plan to The new law will make it illegal for Israeli citizens who are not members of proscribed terrorist groups to be held under administrative detention, meaning that the controversial order will effectively only apply to…
(2024-07-03). Unregistered refugees in Egypt face risk of jail or deportation. newarab.com 
A recent Over the past 48 hours, security campaigns have been launched in the capital, Cairo and areas els…
(2024-07-03). Iranian musician Bashir Biazar, jailed in France over pro-Palestine views, is released. presstv.ir Iranian musician and filmmaker Bashir Biazar, illegally arrested and imprisoned in France, has been released and is on his way back to the country.
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) have reported a significant increase in the number of Palestinians who have been wounded by Israeli soldiers before abducting them since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023. The Commission and the PPS have emphasized the additional suffering experienced …
War on Gaza: Al-Shifa hospital director released from Israeli detention | Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya says Palestinian prisoners face unprecedentedly harsh conditions and action must be taken to free them | | Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya after his release on 1 July 2024 (X) | The director of Gaza City's al-Sh…
War on Gaza: Al-Shifa hospital director released from Israeli detention | Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya says Palestinian prisoners face unprecedentedly harsh conditions and action must be taken to free them | | Al-Shifa hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya is welcomed by relatives after his release, at N…
On June 27, 2024, a federal court halted an illegal logging project on federal public lands in the Little Belt Mountains of Montana. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed their lawsuit to stop the Horsefly project in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest in April 2021. The project called for cutting and 
In UK news Julian Assange has been released from HM Prison Belmarsh after accepting a plea deal with American prosecutors. Assange pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act, for communicating with whistleblower Chelsea Manning and receiving and publishing classified information regarding Guantanamo Bay, the Afghan and Iraq war, and US …