(2021-06-04). Iranian, Iraqi Forces Are Manufacturing Rocket Launchers In Syria's Deir Ezzor — Report. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | Forces affiliated with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) were manufacturing single barrel rocket launchers in the eastern Syrian governorate of Deir Ezzor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on June 4. | According to the London-based group, the launchers are being manufactured in a military base located in the outskirts of the government-held town of al-Mayadin in southern Deir Ezzor. Iranian military experts are prese…
(2021-06-04). Socialist Alliance: Reject the coup regime in Myanmar/Burma. greenleft.org.au The Socialist Alliance is calling on the Coalition government to impose targeted sanctions on Myanmar's military while maintaining aid to the victims of human rights violations and providing permanent protection to temporary visa holders from Myanmar and the Rohingya population in exile.
(2021-06-04). End privatization of prison mail! workers.org 
By mYia X and Phebe Eckfeldt Boston Banning paper letters for the incarcerated: Would you consider this torture? Would you consider this sensory deprivation? Would you consider this a violation of human rights? We do! Imagine not having seen your family, children, loved ones for years, and now you are . . . |
(2021-06-04). End privatization of prison mail! workers.org By mYia X and Phebe Eckheldt Boston Banning paper letters for the incarcerated: Would you consider this torture? Would you consider this sensory deprivation? Would you consider this a violation of human rights? We do! Imagine not having seen your family, children, loved ones for years, and now you are . . . |
(2021-06-04). Biden to Confront Putin with Human Rights Issue. globalresearch.ca The American media …
(2021-06-04). Norman Finkelstein: Truth and justice are the ultimate test, not international NGOs. mronline.org 
Even Human Rights Watch says Israel is committing crimes against humanity in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and in Gaza, and the idea of a Jewish state in the context of Palestine is not legitimate. | June 4, 2021…
(2021-06-04). Headlines for June 4, 2021. democracynow.org Activists Call U.S. Plan to Ship 25 Million COVID Vaccine Doses Abroad "Deeply Insufficient", WHO Warns of Surging COVID-19 Cases in Africa as Vaccine Shipments Come to "Near Halt", Chinese Authorities Ban Hong Kong Vigil Commemorating Tiananmen Massacre, Arrest Organizer, Peruvian Presidential Runoff Pits Ex-Dictator's Daughter Against Socialist School Teacher, 89 Politicians Killed in Run-up to Mexican Midterm Elections, Lawyers for Guantánamo Prisoner Challenge Judge's Order Permitting Use of Info Obtained by Torture, Watchdog Says Pentagon Grossly Misrepresented Civilian Casualties from U.S. Military, U.N. Sa…
(2021-06-04). Cops told him the First Amendment doesn't apply, then they arrested him to prove it. therealnews.com 
The arrest of a cop watcher by Texas police raises serious questions about the rights of citizen journalists and the state of the First Amendment.
(2021-06-04). Coalition wants Congress to end immunity for federal police, agents. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—It's time to put a cap on ICE…and the Border Patrol…and the FBI…and any other federal law enforcement agent who illegally violates someone's civil rights, by making violators personally liable for damages when they do. Removing that immunity from prosecution for damages is, in so many words, what more than a dozen organizations, including pro-labor …
(2021-06-04). France Suspends Joint Military Operation In Mali To Punish Junta. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On June 3rd, France said that it was suspending its joint military operations with Malian forces "awaiting guarantees" that civilians return to positions of power. | This comes after on May 25th, the Malian military detained interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane and stripped them of their powers after a dispute over a cabinet reshuffle, after the previous military coup in August 2020. | Assimi Goita, a colonel who led both coups and was Nda…
(2021-06-04). "Disaster Patriarchy": V (Eve Ensler) on How the Pandemic Has Unleashed a War on Women. democracynow.org 
The pandemic has led to a sharp rise in gender-based violence, job losses in female-dominated industries, greater parenting duties for mothers, and other pressures that primarily fall on women around the world. These effects amount to a kind of "disaster patriarchy" in which "men exploit a crisis to reassert control and dominance and rapidly erase the hard-earned rights of women," says V, the artist and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler. "Women are losing their safety, their economic power, their autonomy, their education, and they are pushed onto the frontlines, where they are often used, unprotected and sac…
(2021-06-04). Julian Assange's Father And Brother Announce US Tour. popularresistance.org The father and brother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are planning a nationwide tour of the United States next month to advocate for the release of the detained journalist and for the Biden administration to drop its extradition effort—and to highlight the broader implications that his prosecution has for global press freedom. | John and Gabriel Shipton, Assange's father and brother, will kick off the #HomeRun4Julian tour in Miami on June 6, then travel to over a dozen U.S. cities for the rest of the month, wrapping up in Washington, D.C. in July. Some events will be live-streamed, and the pair plans t…
(2021-06-04). Vicious Wave of Repression Sparks Global Movement to Free Iran's Political Prisoners. counterpunch.org She should imagine thousands of people in the court room, standing next to her and demanding: #FreeNahid That's what Mariam Claren told her imprisoned mother, a 66-year-old, dual German-Iranian citizen and women's rights activist, before her first Iranian court appearance on April 28. As the world's attention concerning Iran largely focuses on the nuclear negotiations
(2021-06-04). Women's Rights and Debt Oppression in Central Asia. globalresearch.ca On 15 April …
(2021-06-04). We Stand With Cuba Against the US Embargo and Hybrid War. popularresistance.org On May 26, The New York Review of Books published an open letter signed by a group of successful artists and writers — including Junot Díaz and Edwidge Danticat — stating that Cuban artist Luís Manuel Otero Alcántara is "detained…solely for expressing his ideas through his art." We the undersigned challenge the aforementioned signatories to reconsider their letter, which fails to mention Otero Alcántara's alleged connections to the U.S. government and ignores crucial context, namely the ongoing war waged by the U.S. against Cuba.
(2021-06-04). Huawei Launches Long-Awaited Operating System in Bid to Knock Google off top Place. orinocotribune.com The Chinese company has in the past been cut off from updating Google's Android OS as a result of sanctions implemented by the US government last year. What's more, Huawei is also planning to build a large ecosystem of software developers and user bases. | Chinese smartphone maker Huawei is set to announce the launch of the HarmonyOS — its first self-developed operating system for mobile phones, according to a report in the WSJ. The system was first unveiled in 2019 at a developers' conference and has since been installed in several consumer devices, including PC, laptops, and smartwatches. |
(2021-06-04). Sinema's Position on the Filibuster Echoes Goldwater's Case Against Civil Rights. thenation.com Sinema's Position on the Filibuster Echoes Goldwater's Case Against Civil Rights…
(2021-06-03). International Mission Assesses Colombia's Violence. telesurenglish.net The International Solidarity and Human Rights Mission reported on Thursday its first assessments of the state repression during the National Striked that have kept the country in turmoil for 37 days. | RELATED: | According to one of its members, Ismael Jalil, the mission spread throughout the Colombian territory to verify all the information and collect their testimonies as "they were not carried away by the information tha…
(2021-06-03). Venezuela Rejects Colombia's Unilateral Decision to Open Border Crossings. orinocotribune.com On Wednesday, June 2, Venezuela rejected the decision of the Colombian government to unilaterally open the border crossings between the two countries, informed Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza. | The information was made public through a communiqué of the Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Ministry, indicating that "this sort of border ambush shows that the Colombian government continues to engage in political tricks in order to distract public opinion from the notorious acts of human rights violations that for 36 days have shaken Colombian society and the whole world." | In the statement, Venezuela expresses that…
(2021-06-03). Human Rights Mission Condemns State Terrorism In Colombia. telesurenglish.net Colombia's International Human Rights Verification Mission on Thursday ordered an investigation into President Ivan Duque's administration for "torturing, disappearing, raping, and murdering Colombian citizens during the social outbreak." | RELATED: | "The government is encouraging police brutality, which has limited the right of the people to protest peacefully and to take part in the country's political decisions," the Mission c…
(2021-06-03). Central Syrian Insurgency: ISIS Attacks Continue Despite Russian, Syrian Airstrikes. southfront.org 
Illustrative image | More than 110 airstrikes have targeted ISIS hideouts in Syria's central region, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on June 2. | At least 100 of the airstrikes were carried out by warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS), while the rest were conducted by Syrian military helicopters. The airstrikes targeted hideouts of ISIS cells in the outskirts of the towns of al-Sholah in western Deir Ezzor and al-Sukhnah in eastern Homs. | "Russian reconnaissance planes flew over d…
(2021-06-03). Over 200,000 Haitian Children Suffer From Human Trafficking. telesurenglish.net Haiti's Depase fwontyè foundation (Crossing the limits) warned on Thursday that over 200,000 children suffer from human trafficking in the Caribbean country. | RELATED: | Crossing the Limits, alongside the Collective of Lawyers Specialized in Strategic Human Rights Litigation, noticed that the phenomena are more common in inland cities and minors often have to withdraw from school to satisfy the demands of their surrogate…
(2021-06-03). Ecuador: Quito Metropolitan Council Approves Removal of Mayor. telesurenglish.net During an extraordinary meeting that began on Wednesday afternoon, members of Quito's Metropolitan Council approved a request for the removal of Jorge Yunda, the mayor of Ecuador's capital city. | RELATED: | This request was filed by the "Front of Professionals for the Dignity of Quito". The Mayor's lawyer argued that such request violates the principles established in the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights since the only way to re…
(2021-06-03). Leftist Candidate Castillo Condemns Fujimori Father's Crimes. telesurenglish.net Free Peru's (PL) leftist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo Wednesday held a meeting with relatives of victims who suffered forced disappearance during Alberto Fujimori's presidency (1990-2000). | RELATED: | Castillo received a public letter from families of the Cantuta case victims, in which they denounced ongoing human rights violations and urged for justice. | He met also the relatives of 24-year-old Inti Sotelo, who…
(2021-06-03). The Refugee Union Behind Barbed Wire. popularresistance.org Priti Patel's refugee camp experiment is finally crumbling. In March, Penally Camp in Pembrokeshire — where hundreds of asylum seekers have been held in squalid conditions since September 2020 — was closed down. The barracks, complete with razor wire-topped fences and human-shaped shooting targets, has been returned to the Ministry of Defence, and will hopefully never be used to accommodate people flee-ing wars again. | The closure follows months of pressure on the Home Office by human rights groups, local campaigners, MPs, doctors, and lawyers, who ran a high-profile campaign decrying the barracks' p…
(2021-06-03). NGO Presents New Cases to ICC Regarding Human Rights Violations of Economic Blockade. orinocotribune.com This Monday, June 1, the Latin American Foundation for Human Rights and Social Development (Fundalatin) reported that it continues to present to the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) new cases of victims of the blockade imposed by the United States and Europe against Venezuela. | According to statements on the NGO's Twitter account, on Monday 24 additional cases of individuals whose rights were violated as a result of the sanctions were presented. This report included the cases of four citizens who unfortunately lost their lives. | Seguimos presentando a la Fiscalía de la Corte Penal I…
(2021-06-03). Weapons expo disrupted by rainbow coalition. greenleft.org.au Standing up against the war profiteers at the Land Forces exhibition in Brisbane was a rainbow coalition of First Nations peoples, peace, climate and human rights defenders. Alex Bainbridge, Jim McIlroy and Steffi Leedham report.
(2021-06-03). Rights groups sign letter denouncing human rights abuses in Egypt. peoplesdispatch.org 63 international human rights and civil society organizations signed a letter calling on the Egyptian government to "immediately end a crackdown on freedom of association, independent groups, and peaceful dissent," Middle East Eye reported on Tuesday, June 1. Among the prominent organizations that signed the letter are Access Now, Freedom House, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), EuroMed Rights, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), Odhikar Bangladesh, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Egyptian Human Rights Forum. | The letter urges the…
(2021-06-03). This time may be different: on the UN commission of inquiry investigating violations in the occupied Palestinian territory. mronline.org 
Thanks to a rapidly changing political context the new UN Human Rights Council commission announced on May 27th may be different from those in the past—this one may actually help hold Israel accountable. | June 3, 2021…
(2021-06-03). PDF of June 3 issue. workers.org 
Download the PDF. U.S. behind detention of Venezuelan diplomat Release Alex Saab! Ama-zen? Alabama mine strike. Editorial: Reparations NOW for Black Tulsans! A year after George Floyd, fight police terror! Cleveland, Seattle, Oakland. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free: March on Washington Global class impact Being . . . |
(2021-06-03). The Tigray Conflict: Ethiopia's Humanitarian Disaster — Harry Sanders. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
This article was written by Harry Sanders, a content writer for the Immigration Advice Service. Since November 2020, the Tigray region in the north of Ethiopia has been the epicentre of an awful (and hugely underreported) humanitarian disaster. War and violence have sent the region's inhabitants fleeing over the Ethiopian border in search of asylum, …
(2021-06-03). The Second Amendment Was Created to Arm White People to Control Black People. truthout.org 
Do African Americans have Second Amendment rights? That's the question Emory University professor Carol Anderson set out to answer in her new book, The Second, which looks at the constitutional right to bear arms and its uneven application throughout U.S. history. She says she was prompted to write the book after the 2016 police killing of Philando Castile, who was fatally shot during a traffic stop after he told the officer he had a legal firearm. Anderson says the Second Amendment was alway…
(2021-06-03). Roman Protasevich Claims Belarusian Opposition Might Betray Him. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On June 2nd, Roman Protasevich, co-founder of the Telegram channel Nexta, who was detained in Minsk, said that shortly before his arrest, his relations with supporters of opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya had gone wrong. | The state television channel of Belarus ONT showed a video in which Protasevich recalls his contacts with Franak Vyachorka, an adviser to Tikhanovskaya."I filmed Tikhanovskaya's visit to Athens. Everything was fine, we worked for two days. He praised me. He fl…
(2021-06-03). "The Second": Carol Anderson on the Racist Roots of the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms. democracynow.org 
Do African Americans have Second Amendment rights? That's the question Emory University professor Carol Anderson set out to answer in her new book, "The Second," which looks at the constitutional right to bear arms and its uneven application throughout U.S. history. She says she was prompted to write the book after the 2016 police killing of Philando Castile, who was fatally shot during a traffic stop after he told the officer he had a legal firearm. Anderson says the Second Amendment was always intended to be a means of arming white people to control the Black population. "There was this massive fear about these…
(2021-06-03). We Stand With Cuba Against the US Embargo and Hybrid War. counterpunch.org On May 26, The New York Review of Books published an open letter signed by a group of successful artists and writers — including Junot Díaz and Edwidge Danticat — stating that Cuban artist Luís Manuel Otero Alcántara is "detained…solely for expressing his ideas through his art." We the undersigned challenge the aforementioned signatories to
(2021-06-03). Belarus to Retaliate in Response to US Sanctions. telesurenglish.net Belarus announced on Thursday retaliatory measures against Washington, including reducing U.S. diplomatic personnel in the country, following the entry into force of new sanctions against Minsk. | "We cannot overlook this unfriendly procedure," Belarusian Foreign Ministry spokesman Anatoli Glaz said in a statement, just as U.S. economic sanctions are instituted against nine Belarusian state-owned enterprises. | RELATED: |
(2021-06-03). Tales of Resistance: We're Getting Old. orinocotribune.com By Jessica Dos Santos — May 30, 2021 | The economic crisis and US sanctions have meant a series of obstacles for Venezuela's senior population. VA columnist Jessica Dos Santos shares her thoughts and experience on the matter. | In each conversation, each kiss, each hug | There is always a bit of fear. | —Pablo Milanés | A few days ago I was telling a friend that it seemed like all of a sudden every possible family problem was upon me. "We're getting old, girl," she told me. | In part that's true. We're over 30 and we have to "care" for our parents. But in present-day Venezuela it's much more than th…
(2021-06-03). The UN Took Away Iran's Right to Vote in the General Assembly. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Iran strongly condemned the United Nations' decision to remove its voting rights in the General Assembly due to the delay in paying membership dues worth some US$16 million. | RELATED: | "US economic terrorism prevents Iran from paying for food, let alone UN fees," Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif tweeted. | The Iranian official suggested that the United Nations collect the unpaid fees us…
(2021-06-03). Activists aim to block Israeli ships from US ports in solidarity with Palestinians. popularresistance.org Palestinian rights activists are aiming to block ships operated by an Israeli shipping line from unloading cargo in key US port cities as part of a campaign to pressure Israel over its numerous violations of international law. | The Arab Resource and Organizing Center (Aroc), which is leading the effort, told Middle East Eye on Wednesday that its "Block the Boat" campaign had successfully prevented a ship operated by Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd from docking in Oakland, California.
(2021-06-03). Activists Aim To Block Israeli Ships From US Ports In Solidarity With Palestinians. popularresistance.org Palestinian rights activists are aiming to block ships operated by an Israeli shipping line from unloading cargo in key US port cities as part of a campaign to pressure Israel over its numerous violations of international law. | The Arab Resource and Organizing Center (Aroc), which is leading the effort, told Middle East Eye on Wednesday that its "Block the Boat" campaign had successfully prevented a ship operated by Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd from docking in Oakland, California. | Zim, considered the 10th largest shipping company in the world, told MEE in an email that delays at the port prevented it f…
(2021-06-03). More Than McCarthyism: The Attack on Activism Students Don't Learn About from Their Textbooks. commondreams.org "The long Red Scare of the 20th century was a scorched-earth policy against the country's most progressive forces—labor unions organizing across racial lines; civil rights organizations offering intersectional critiques of capitalism, racism, and gender oppression." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-06-03). 100+ Democracy Scholars Issue Dire Warning About Threats to Voting Rights in US. zcomm.org "Our democracy is fundamentally at stake. History will judge what we do at this moment."
(2021-06-03). Massive demonstration in Ljubljana demands resignation of Slovenian government and fresh elections. peoplesdispatch.org The protesters have alleged that space for dialogue with the government has shrunk and that the fundamental rights of the citizens, freedom of the press and judiciary are under threat…