A bald, bearded man carrying two backpacks walked down the stairs of a plane before he extended his right hand in a greeting. His black T-shirt had an image of a stormtrooper, a soldier from George Lucas’s Star Wars movies. Below the character, there were four words: “Your empire needs…
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been freed as part of the biggest prisoner swap between Russia and the West since the Cold War. Paul Whelan, a former US marine, as well as prominent Russian opposition politicians and activists who had been jailed for criticising the full-scale invasion of…
NewsFeed Video released by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) shows prisoners being loaded onto a waiting plane for transport to Turkey as part of a massive prisoner swap. They were later split amongst a small fleet of private planes to take them to their respective countries. Published On 1 Aug…
For Mason, the trouble started in 2016. A mother of three, she had recently been released from custody after serving a sentence for felony tax fraud. It was a big year at the ballot box, with the presidency up for grabs as well as control of Congress, and Mason said…
NewsFeed US President Joe Biden gathered with family members of prisoners just freed in one of the largest prisoner swaps between Russia and Western countries. The swap included around two dozen prisoners in multiple countries. Published On 1 Aug 20241 Aug 2024 Check out our Latest News and Follow us…
For decades, the family has pushed for Peltier’s release. But he was previously denied parole in 2009, and attempts to petition for a presidential pardon have been rejected. Peltier’s lawyer Kevin Sharp told US media in June that he considered this month’s parole hearing to be the activist’s “last chance”…
In May, a shocking CNN report based on whistleblower testimony placed Israel’s Sde Teiman military base in the Negev desert under the global spotlight and led to it being compared to the notorious US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where I was imprisoned for more than a decade. Three…
The detainees endured ‘almost daily torture’, claims al-Shifa Hospital Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya. Israeli has freed dozens of Palestinians detained during its war in Gaza, including the director of one of the enclave’s main hospitals. Israel released 55 prisoners on Monday to free up space in its jails, unconfirmed reports…
“I was hungover that morning. I’d had an argument with my kids’ mum the night before and got drunk,” says Sam, 31, recalling the day he first came face to face with a therapy horse. “Steve [a criminal rehabilitation case worker] came over and had to drag me out of…
When former Guantanamo detainee Asadullah Haroon looks at pictures of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons, the memories of his own abuse and torture in United States detention centres come flooding back. “This is the worst form of oppression,” he says. “When you are labelled as a terrorist you cannot…
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