(2023-07-13). How Walid Daqqah has kept the struggle for dignity alive behind the bars of Israeli prison. peoplesdispatch.org A global campaign is demanding the freedom of Palestinian writer, intellectual, and activist Walid Daqqah, who has been imprisoned in Israeli jails for over 37 years, and is facing severe health issues. Sahar Francis, the General Director of Ramallah-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, talks about Daqqah's life of resistance and the importance of the campaign…
(2023-07-13). Climate Change Crime — Depopulation In the Name of Human Rights. globalresearch.ca
(2023-07-13). Blast Wipes Out Ammunition Depot Of Turkistan Militants In Syria Greater Idlib (Photos). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image. Via Twitter. | On July 12, a large blast wiped out an ammunition depot of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib. | Photos that surfaced online showed fire and thick smoke rising from the scene of the blast at the city of Jisr al-Shughur in the western Idlib countryside. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based monitoring group, said that three militants of the TIP were wounded in the blast.
(2023-07-12). MEP slams EP resolution against Cuba. plenglish.com Despite the infamous insulting resolution, the peoples of the world are with you (Cuba), he said in a message of fraternal greetings to Cuba. | According to the Left Group member, the European Parliament (EP) has become a loudspeaker for the most reactionary and extreme right-wingers. | Regarding the adopted document, Pineda asserted that it contaminates and stains what should be the house of Europe's sovereignty. | The text used the human rights issue to attack Cuba, with the clear intention of affecting the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement signed by the European Union (EU) and Cuba in 2016. | Pineda…
(2023-07-12). The UK-Rwanda Pact to Keep Migrants from Crossing the English Channel. libya360.wordpress.com Ann Garrison The UK is spearheading a European drive to outsource migrants to Rwanda. UK officials have been trying to ship African and Middle Eastern migrants to Rwanda since June 2022 despite successful legal challenges mounted by immigrant rights advocates, including intervention by the European Court of Human Rights . At the end of June, three UK…
(2023-07-12). White House Deploys Troops to Bolster Right-Wing Coup Regime in Peru. libya360.wordpress.com Abayomi Azikiwe As unrest continues the United States-backed government of Dina Boluarte commits atrocious human rights violations In early December of 2022, the socialist president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, was overthrown in a political coup engineered by the conservative-dominated Congress and immediately thrown into prison. Vice-President Dina Boluarte was installed as the new leader having…
(2023-07-12). Cuba Rejects European Parliament Interference. telesurenglish.net The International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) on Wednesday rejected a resolution adopted by the European Parliament (EP) calling for sanctions against Cuban officials for alleged "human rights violations." | RELATED: | The Assembly points out that the European document shows highly interfering content, defaming not only the Cuban reality, its legal system, and the rule of law b…
(2023-07-12). Uganda and Its Campaign to Normalize Homophobia. telesurenglish.net In Uganda, you can simply be arrested for being gay or lesbian. Since May, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act, despite widespread condemnation from many Western governments and human rights activists. Since that time, sexual relations between people of the same sex have been punishable by jail or life imprisonment. | Related: | This violative practice has been legal in the co…
(2023-07-12). UN Adopts Resolution Condemning Quran Burning. telesurenglish.net Some Western countries expressed their opposition to the anti-blasphemy laws and, at the same time, strongly denounced the burning of the Quran in Sweden. An Iraqi immigrant to Sweden burned the Quran outside a Stockholm mosque last month, sparking outrage across the Muslim world and demands by Muslim states for action. | Related: | The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on Wednesday, July 12, a resolution condemning acts of religious hatred such as the burning of the Quran, even though several countries…
(2023-07-12). Organizaciones piden el fin de la OTAN y avanzar hacia un Acuerdo de Paz mundial. globalizacion.ca Personas y organizaciones sociales, de paz, ecuménicas y de derechos humanos, emitieron un "Llamamiento: Por un Acuerdo por la Paz y la Amistad entre los Pueblos" en ocasión de la Cumbre de la OTAN, que se celebrará en Vilnius, Lituania,…
(2023-07-12). Solidarity with Soha Bechara: Lebanese resistance struggler detained and deported from Greece. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the Greek government and European Union's denial of entry to Souha Bechara, the Lebanese resistance struggler, former political prisoner and Communist activist. As she traveled from Beirut through Athens to Switzerland, she was stopped in the Athens airport by Greek officials, detained for multiple hours and deported to Lebanon, …
(2023-07-13). Federal Court Judge rules hotel detention inhumane but legal. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-07-12). Caged, stripped, beaten: Latest 'Save the Children' report on Palestine makes chilling read. mronline.org 
According to a just-released report by the international rights organization, Save the Children, four out of five Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system are beaten and 69 per cent are strip-searched.
(2023-07-12). Kids Awaiting Foster Care Placement Are Being "Housed" in Jails and Offices. truthout.org By age 17, more than half of youth who are removed from their homes will have an encounter with the legal system through arrest, conviction or detention. Critics describe this process as the foster-care-to-prison-pipeline. But for many foster children, the pipeline is activated the moment they enter care. This is because child welfare authorities in several states are placing kids in juvenile… |
(2023-07-12). End the cruelty: Labor must support asylum seekers. greenleft.org.au 
The death of a refugee at Villawood Detention Centre is the latest indictment of the bipartsian cruelty towards refugees in Australia. Pip Hinman reports.
(2023-07-13). Monday 7/17: Banking on a Safe World: Divesting from Nuclear Weapons & Fossil Fuels. indybay.org Online event via Zoom…
(2023-07-13). The UK Online Safety Bill poses grave threats to free speech, House of Lords told. expose-news.com "A wide range of policy analysts, civil rights groups, academics, lawyers, free speech campaigners and industry representatives have [suggested] ways of mitigating some of the grave threats to free speech in this …
(2023-07-13). Wednesday 7/19: Renters' Rights Clinic in West Oakland. indybay.org Oakland Public Library: West Oakland Branch | 1801 Adeline Street | Oakland, CA 94607…
(2023-07-13). Arrested Sri Lanka comedian Natasha Edirisooriya granted bail. wsws.org While the High Court decision to overrule the Magistrates' Court indicates sections of the ruling class want to avoid international criticism, the attacks on democratic rights will intensify.
(2023-07-13). Patrick Lawrence: The 'Disinformation Industry' Lands in Court. scheerpost.com 
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost What kind of a week was last week in the theater of war wherein battles rage over illegal censorship, illegal attacks on freedom of speech, illegal government infringements on our constitutional rights, and, amid it all, the complicity of our most powerful media in these illegalities? For a …
(2023-07-12). U.S. Government Launches Investigation Into Cedars-Sinai Hospital Over Black Mothers. moguldom.com Health inequality among Black women is a matter of life and death. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is now facing a federal civil rights investigation over the treatment of Black mothers. "Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," …
(2023-07-13). Family of assassinated anti-fascist activist Michael Reinoehl files federal wrongful death lawsuit. wsws.org The killing of Michael Reinoehl by a US Marshals task force on September 3, 2020 was a state-sanctioned execution, which had the support of then-President Donald Trump, his Attorney General William Barr and the US Justice Department.
(2023-07-12). Venezuela 'Hikes' Diesel Price to $0.32 per Liter. orinocotribune.com 
An adjustment to the price of diesel fuel for the industrial sector was made official in Venezuela after being published in the government gazette. The new price is equivalent to 32 US cents per liter. In addition, Article 2 of the resolution states that the government may evaluate the use of different prices for sectors considered to be a priority. | The new price is a necessary adjustment after the US restricted, under illegal sanctions, exports of diesel to Venezuela in 2021, while President Maduro's administration retained a subsidized price equivalent to slightly less than half a cent per liter in US dollars…
(2023-07-12). El régimen de sanciones impuesto por el Reino Unido apunta a Nicaragua. globalizacion.ca 
Gran Bretaña y sus socios, como los EE. UU., están imponiendo sanciones económicas a docenas de gobiernos que no les gustan, pero algunos individuos en Nicaragua están siendo atacados sobre la base de poca o ninguna evidencia. | El Reino Unido,…
(2023-07-12). President Maduro: Capriles Conspires Against Venezuela. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro denounced that opposition politician Henrique Capriles continues to conspire and encourage economic warfare against this South American nation. | RELATED: | During his weekly television program, Maduro recalled that Capriles supported the arbitrary U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, the urban riots ("guarimbas") aimed at destabilizing the country, and the political farce…