#torture
I presume the extreme right wing politicians of the #US #Republican Party, and those who voted for #Slovakia's pro-#Putin #Smer party, are quite happy for this kind of thing to carry on?
'#Torture 24 hours a day': Survivors reveal the dark cruelty of #Russia's detention centres in occupied #Ukraine.'
https://news.sky.com/story/torture-24-hours-a-day-survivors-reveal-the-dark-cruelty-of-russias-detention-centres-in-occupied-ukraine-12970745
Now public: Several UN Human Rights Council Special Procedures sent a 3 August communication to #LaoPDR seeking information about the whereabouts of detained Chinese #lawyer #LuSiwei arrested in LaoPDR 28 July while en route to #Thailand & #US & at the time believed to be at imminent of #refoulement to #China to face #arbitrarydetention & #torture : https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=28294. Since then there has been contradictory info as to LuSiwei’s whereabouts in LaoPDR or China. #EnforcedDisappearance /2
Une sociologue en prison à vie ? Persécutée, elle témoigne
https://www.lemediatv.fr/emissions/2023/une-sociologue-en-prison-a-vie-persecutee-elle-temoigne-4JnrwOB6Q-iOqKRZ5J7vcw
#Turquie #Torture
#féminisme
#Insoumis #GiletsJaunes #NUPES
Today in Labor History October 1, 1910: Twenty-one people were killed when the Los Angeles Times building was dynamited during a labor strike. Anarchists were immediately blamed. The Iron Workers had been engaged in a brutal and protracted battle with U.S. Steel and the American Bridge Company, which was busting their union with spies, informants, scabs and agents provocateur. Los Angeles Times publisher Harrison Otis, who was viciously anti-union, provided propaganda for the bosses. By early 1910, the owners had driven nearly all the unions from their plants, except for the Iron Workers union, which had instigated a bombing campaign starting in 1906. In April 1911, private detective William Burns and Chicago police sergeant William Reed kidnapped union organizer James McNamara and held him hostage for a week prior to illegally extraditing him to Los Angeles for the bombings. Burns later arrested his brother John, but denied him access to an attorney. Both McNamaras had been arrested based on the confession of a third man who had likely been tortured. And both were likely innocent of the bombings. Eugene Debs accused Otis, himself, of the Times bombing. James McNamara spent the rest of his life in San Quentin, dying there in 1941. John served 15 years and then went on to serve as an organizer for the Iron Workers.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #strike #union #LATimes #propaganda #prison #torture #PoliceBrutality #police #UnionBusting #bombing
#Russia: ‘The #Kremlin is implementing a… “state policy” of #torture in occupied #Ukraine… “It’s not just that it’s so widespread,” Dr Alice Jill Edwards, the UN special rapporteur on torture, said... “You can see from the way the method is set up & mirrored across different regions — there is the supervising officer, the torturer & the interrogator. The methods of doing it, the purposes for doing it & the targets are consistent...”’ | Times UK https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f982653e-5b85-11ee-88d6-eacc4268cc5d?shareToken=a1c45dc6045325534a13704e10c5e5d6
Yes, there was a lot to complain about regarding #Feinstein, especially as she declined.
She also got the assault rifle ban passed, which WORKED for as long as it lasted.
She also is the only reason we know, with official government acknowledgement, just how awful the #Bush #torture and deception of Congress was.
More an instrument of torture than a deterrent.
I've scrapped the electric fence hedgehog feeding station as the poor slug that melted on the wires didn't die. It looked very dead with all that seepage and the way it's body seemed to have exploded but when I checked back later in the day, it had dragged itself round to the other side of the board.
I'll try a copper based solution next but no electricity
#US Senate titan Dianne #Feinstein dies at 90. “Her achievements include writing the 1994 assault rifle ban and producing a 6,700-page report on the CIA torture program during the US "war on terror." AFP https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2654965 #GunControl #Torture #CIA
On the #Judiciary Cmte, which she joined during her 1st #Senate term, #Feinstein became known as an independent-minded vote.
During the #Bush admin, she opposed the noms of #SCOTUS justices #JohnRoberts & #SamuelAlito, several candidates for #FederalBench, & AG #AlbertoGonzales. But sided w/ #Republicans on noms incl’g… #MichaelMukasey —despite his refusal to describe #waterboarding as #torture —& fed appeals court judge #LeslieSouthwick, whose nom was opposed by #CivilRights & #GayRights grps.
In the 2014 midterm elections, #Republicans regained control of the #Senate, & #Feinstein lost her cmte chairmanship. “History will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by #law,” she had said when the #torture report was released, “& the willingness to face an ugly truth & say ‘never again.’ ”
The cmte’s 6,700-pg “#torture report,” an executive summary of which was publicly released in 2014, alleged that #CIA #interrogation techniques — incl’g #waterboarding, #SleepDeprivation, physical #abuse, #confinement in a coffin-size box & #threats against suspects’ #families — had been far more #brutal, more #widespread & less effective than the agency previously claimed.
Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement political prisoner wrongfully held in maximum security prison on trumped up charges for over 48 years (while even if he did kill those police officers, it would be just and outside of any legitimate US sovereign territory), has been in a persistent state of lockdown and psychological #torture since the outbreak of covid
"'#Torture 24 hours a day': Survivors reveal the dark cruelty of #Russia's detention centres in occupied #Ukraine.'
Reading this makes me wonder why any #European #business is still trading with Russia, and why we allow Russian participation in international #sport
https://news.sky.com/story/torture-24-hours-a-day-survivors-reveal-the-dark-cruelty-of-russias-detention-centres-in-occupied-ukraine-12970745
Iraqis Tortured by US at Abu Ghraib have Never Received Justice or Compensation
https://www.juancole.com/2023/09/tortured-received-compensation.html
‘#Shameful, #cruel and #dangerous’
#SuellaBraverman's ‘absurd and outrageous’ #plans to overhaul #internationalrefugeeconventions #condemned
#WomenforRefugeeWomen called Ms Braverman’s comments “absurd and outrageous.” they continued “The majority of women, including #LGBTQ+ #women, we support are #survivors of #persecution including #gender-based #abuse, #sexualviolence, #rape, and other #torture.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/shameful-cruel-and-dangerous
@PhaedraXTeddy RT by @aiww: Did u know, #AnimalCruelty is LEGAL in #China? Lack of law has led to uniMAGinable prolific #torture to every species available to #animalabusers Urge #China to protect animals! #StopAnimalCruelty https://bit.ly/44yJBqC https://nitter.hongkongers.net/PhaedraXTeddy/status/1706730936711168398#m
Le torture di #Israele contro i prigionieri palestinesi sono illegali e moralmente ingiustificabili.
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#ApartheidIsrael #IsraeliOccupation #Israel #26settembre #fascismo #razzismo #Palestine #WestBank #Gaza #Jerusalem #PACE #Peace #NOwar
UN Commission finds evidence of war crimes committed by Russia
They found evidence of:
- Illegal Explosive attacks
- Torture
- Sexual assault
- Assaults on energy infrastructure
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #RussianWarCrimes #WarCrimes #torture #UkrainianChildren #kidnapping #StandWithUkraine
“I’ve never been able to get my head around the collective evil of those nuns.”
#MagdaleneLaundries #Ireland #Sexism #CatholicChurch #Torture
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/24/unreleased-sinead-oconnor-song-to-play-at-finale-of-church-cruelty-drama
Family of #Black Man Who Died From ‘Medieval #Torture’ Receives Millions From the State of #Virginia
https://www.theroot.com/family-of-black-man-who-died-from-medieval-torture-re-1850864848
BBC News: El Salvador gangs: Mass arrests bring calm but at what price? BBC News - El Salvador gangs: Mass arrests bring calm but at what price?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-65596471
#ElSavador
#Gangs
#Arrests
#MassArrests
#ArrestingTheInnocent
#UnlawfulAssociation
#Torture
#Overcrowding
Check out this music video . There's a warning that it may be disturbing to some people . Which I can vouch for because it disturbs the shit outa me. It like hits too close to home for me I guess,. Hah, I can relate way way too much I guess, even down to me wearing my Chuck Taylor all star shoes. Fuck, I'm wearing a pair now actually.
Austin P. McKenzie - "Winter" - [Official Music Video]
https://youtu.be/W2wKk0AlBE8?si=uIAK9JByVbjgSEfI
#NSFWart #gid #peril #bondage #bdsm #gay #noncon #jock #torture #athlete #abuse #whump #snuff
Thorn
Synopsis:
Elena has been searching for her abducted rider for a long time. Memories of her rider haunt her day and night. She hits home in a small town to recuperate and get her act together to find a new lead to her rider. She finds it in the town with Riverclaw, another dragon who too lost his rider to abductors. Elena is determined to find her rider, however is prepared for the realisation that happens.
Author's note: this story features someone who is not in a healthy mind space. It has been my way of exploring a new character who has undergone a traumatic event that left scars they don't yet realise. I advise readers who are sensitive to subjects of self-harm, starvation, and death to exercise discretion.
Read more here:
* https://tretron.me/?p=1181
* https://www.sofurry.com/view/2052954
#furry #furrystories #furrySFW #stories #writing #Dragon #Dragoness #Human #F/F #Rider/dragon #rider #Death #Drama #Mindlink #Torture #starvation
"9/11 defendant unfit to stand trial after CIA torture ‘made him insane"
A 9/11 defendant is ruled unfit for trial after a medical panel finds torture left him psychotic.
AP reports on Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a Yemeni "accused of organizing one cell of the 19 hijackers who commandeered four commercial airplanes to carry out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people." He was detained in 2002 and allegedly tortured by the CIA and held in solitary confinement for four years.
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Guantanamo judge rules 9/11 defendant unfit for trial after panel finds CIA abuse rendered him psychotic
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/guantanamo-judge-rules-9-11-defendant-unfit-for-trial-after-panel-finds-abuse-rendered-him-psychotic-1.6573467
* military judge, Guantanamo Bay ruled 9/11 defendant incompetent to stand trial
* military medical panel diagnosed Ramzi bin al-Shibh w. PTSD w. secondary psychosis
* linked to his abuse during 4 yrs in CIA custody
#GOP #Guantanamo #CIA #HumanRights #HumanRightsViolations #WarCrimes #torture #MentalHealth #PTSD
I stopped reading. It's horrifying.
😱 words are inadequate.
#elon #musk #neuralink #torture #animalTesting #investigate
@sethabramson https://bird.makeup/users/sethabramson/statuses/1704735058433609953
There are people that put you on a rack to #torture you, and immediately violate #HumanRights.
And then, there are other people, which perform the same torture on you, and they never violate human rights.
I wonder which bio-chemical or physical mechanism is behind that. 🤔
#Torture
"Israele/OPT: dopo quasi 2 anni di isolamento, #AhmadManasra è troppo malato per presenziare alla sua udienza.
L’isolamento prolungato che dura più di 15 giorni viola il divieto assoluto di tortura e altri trattamenti crudeli, inumani o degradanti."
#ApartheidIsrael #IsraeliOccupation #Israel #21settembre #fascismo #razzismo #Palestine #WestBank #Gaza #Jerusalem #PACE #Peace #NOwar
Today in Labor History September 21, 1976: Chilean national Orlando Letelier was assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), Pinochet’s secret police. An American, Ronni Moffitt, was also killed. The CIA was aware of the plans and knew of Pinochet’s involvement in the assassinations. Letelier had been a member of the government of Salvador Allende and was living in exile in the U.S. Immediately following the CIA-orchestrated coup that murdered Allende and placed Pinochet in power, Letelier was the first high-ranking Allende cabinet minister to be arrested. He spent over a year in various concentration camps, where he was repeatedly tortured. When he made it to the U.S., he worked for the Institute for Policy Studies. He wrote several articles critical of the Chicago Boys, the South American economists trained at the University of Chicago by Milton Friedman who went on to take on positions in their home countries’ governments, including Chile’s dictatorship, where they promoted free market policies and influenced leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #chile #pinochet #allende #socialism #dictatorship #torture #ConcentrationCamps #reagan #thatcher #fbi #cia #imperialism
@jef +9001%
Also #DaylightSavingsTime is.not only a #Scam but #Torture and should not only be #abolished but #banned entirely!
It doesn't do javk shite except inconvenience people and organizations at no benefit but huge costs!
Washington Post: Louisiana police held detainees in ‘torture warehouse,’ lawsuits say
I am horrified that I am seeing an investment company's #advertising campaign depicting #torture of a humanoid figure as if it's a good means to an end.
#capitalism
Physical and verbal #abuse found in #BrookHouse #immigration removal centre inquiry
Report identifies ‘toxic culture’ and breaches of #HumanRights laws relating to #torture and #inhuman treatment
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/19/toxic-culture-brook-house-immigration-removal-centre-inquiry
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Asylum #Refugees #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
#20yrsago You Might Be An Anti-#Spam Kook If… https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html
#20yrsago #IEEE members: save democracy from a broken standards-committee! https://web.archive.org/web/20030922031714/https://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/IEEE/
#15yrsago American Psychological Association members can’t aid in military #torture https://web.archive.org/web/20080805001530/https://www.apa.org/governance/resolutions/work-settings.html
#15yrsago #WelcomeToFearCity: a guide to scare tourists away from NYC https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=58226389@N07&q=fear city
#10yrsago #NSA contracted with notorious French spy-tech company #VUPEN https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2013/sep/17/nsas-contract-vupen-darth-vader-cybersecurity/
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Aujourd’hui lundi 18 septembre à 10 heures, Sandra, épouse de Kamel Daoudi a décidé de commencer, seule, une grève de la faim et de la soif.
Voici les raisons de son action:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/kamel-daoudi/blog/180923/non-epuisement-des-recours-vs-epuisement-de-ma-femme
Merci de faire circuler massivement cet appel désespéré pour que son mari, père de ses enfants, puisse enfin retrouver une vie un tant soit peu "normale" plutôt qu'une assignation permanente qui ne dit pas son nom.
What was one of Europe's longest-running dictatorships is coming under scrutiny as a victim of alleged torture by the forces of General Francisco Franco testifies for the first time in a Spanish court.
The dictator's repressive 36-year legacy continues to divide Spain nearly half a century after his death in 1975.
https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2023/0915/1405395-franco-spain/
@KristianHarstad Also #remember this and the other pictures from the #torture prison in #AbuGhraib, #Iraq - the first country G.W. #Bush invaded for the #WarOnTerror as retaliation that had nothing to do with the attack on the Twin Towers which was masterminded by #Saudis. Also remember the Collateral Murder video. Remember how you put every Muslim under suspicion. Remember Afghanistan and how you betrayed it's people. #NeverForget #NeverForgive
#Warcrime
‘Nobody is #safe in #Chechnya’: #Life of #torture #survivor accused of being #gay at risk, #activists say.
He fled Chechnya to Armenia after being jailed, beaten and electrocuted by #police accusing him of being #gay. Now, a #campaign is calling on the country to ensure he isn’t #extradited back to #Russia on spurious charges.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Armenia #Russia #Chechnya #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/10/chechnya-russia-torture-salman-mukaev-extradite-armenia/
Today in Labor History September 4, 1970: Socialist Salvador Allende was elected President of Chile. As president, he tried to nationalize major industries, expand education and improve conditions for the working class. On September 11, 1973 (the other 9/11), he was ousted in a coup by Augusto Pinochet, leading to a dictatorship that lasted until 1990. Thousands of workers, socialists, union members and activists were killed, including folk singer Victor Jara, who continued to sing, as his torturers mashed his fingers and demanded that he play his guitar. The coup and dictatorship were supported by the CIA, and by President Nixon, and by the Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, who later won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Here's is an interview & rare live footage of Jara singing his classic: El Derecho de Vivir en Paz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSZ5bC0WIGw
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #socialism #chile #VictorJara #FolkMusic #allende #pinochet #dictatorship #torture #kissenger #imperialism
Today in Labor History August 28, 1955: Teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered on this day in Money, Mississippi, for speaking "inappropriately" to a white woman. The brutality of the murder and the lack of justice for his family helped to mobilize opposition to segregation in America. An all-white jury acquitted Till’s killers, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J. W. Milam. The next year, both men publicly admitted in an interview with Look magazine that they had tortured and murdered the boy. The magazine paid them selling $4,000 (equivalent to $43,000 in 2022) for the story. Between 1876 and 1930, over 500 African Americans were lynched in Mississippi, alone, and over 3,000 across the South. A memorial marker for Emmett Till, erected in 2006, was defaced with "KKK", and then completely covered with black paint. 8 more markers were erected at sites associated with Till's lynching in 2007. Some of these were vandalized, too. One of the signs received over 100 bullet holes. In 2018, three University of Mississippi students were suspended from their fraternity after posting to Instagram a photo of them posing in front of the bullet-riddled marker, with guns.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #racism #lynching #Kkk #EmmettTill #mississippi #JimCrow #torture #BlackMastadon
@enigmatico #DaylightSavingsTime is a #scam and should be outlawed as #torture around the globe!
Personally, I use #Unixtime...
"Even though they act for profit, have no sovereign responsibilities, are in no way politically accountable, democratically accountable, they want to assume the same benefits as the government, as if #CACI was a sovereign entity rather than a profit-making entity. That seems like a terrifying notion for me."
https://fair.org/home/caci-aided-and-abetted-the-torture-of-our-clients/
#Torture #War #Accountability
‘CACI Aided and Abetted the Torture of Our Clients’
"The problem with not holding high-level officials to account is these abuses get replicated and indeed escalated."
https://fair.org/home/caci-aided-and-abetted-the-torture-of-our-clients/
#TheMetalDogArticleList
#guitarworldguitarworld
“In soviet Russia, guitar shreds you”: Meet the Torture Eclipse – a W.A.S.P.-inspired electric guitar that incorporates a rotating circular saw blade
The latest stunning mod build from UK luthier Hutchinson Guitar Concepts brings new meaning to the term shred guitar
https://www.guitarworld.com/news/hutchinson-torture-eclipse-saw-guitar
#SawGuitar #Eclipse #Hutchinson #DarkAmbient #Esoteric #SelfRelease #Torture
Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Torture Lawsuit, Thomas Germain on Online History Destruction
Unlike elite media’s misty memories, the lawsuit is a stubborn indication that those responsible for Abu Ghraib haven't been called to account.
@SrRochardBunson since those #shortages ain't a problem of #production and #supply but #FDA being #cruel and #inhumane, this should be qualified as #torture by the state!
Today in Labor History August 12, 1952: The Soviet authorities murdered 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals and writers in the Night of the Murdered Poets. All were members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which fought for the USSR against Nazi Germany. They were falsely accused of espionage and treason, and then imprisoned, tortured, and isolated for three years before being formally charged.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #communism #soviet #ussr #massacre #antisemitism #jewish #Poet #poetry #writer #books #censorship #FreeSpeech #torture #prison #nazis #antifascism @bookstadon
Abu Ghraib #Torture Lawsuit Heads to Trial, 15 Years in the Making
A federal lawsuit brought by Iraqi torture survivors appears finally headed to trial after a federal judge refused to dismiss the case last week. The Iraqis are suing the U.S. military contractor CACI, which provided interrogators at Abu Ghraib, the notorious Iraqi prison where the men were tortured by U.S. guards.
There is nothing I hate more than the #UnitedStates, save for being alive in this #racist hellhole. I feel nothing but shame for having been born in this evil place and in the evil state of Maryland.
This story exacerbated the hate. I just want to stop breathing right now.
https://dmv.community/@vsnmaryland/110839794399972340
#Maryland #SlaveState #PlantationNation #Torture #Dehumanization #StolenEverything #RapeByOwner #Reality #slavery #ungraciousness #unkindness #Evil
Glad to see John Bolton has come out against #trump at this critical time.
His allyship for those most affected by a trump administration is really inspir...oh... he's against Trump's foreign policy. Hrm.
Still, good to see the "left" "liberal" media really interrogating his bona fide's on foreign policy
You can always rely on the undistorted views of the guardian.
#iraq #wmd #NorthKorea #nukes #coup #torture
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/04/john-bolton-trump-nato-2024
Imagine being incarcerated alone in a small cell with concrete walls 23/7 never seeing the light of day or feeling the wind blowing at you. It's called solitary confinement and is endured by tens of thousand prisoners in the US often over the course of several years. What happens to people lost and forgotten in such a hostile environment under the condition of record heat without air condition? Never forget - it's a form of #torture executed by the carceral state.
21 Years Later, #Guantánamo Bay’s Harms Are Still Unending
Shutting down the prison is a first step, not a last step. The U.S. must finally confront the nightmare it created.
https://truthout.org/articles/21-years-later-guantanamo-bays-harms-are-still-unending/
„Das Schweigen der Gesellschaft ist das größte Problem der Gefangenen“
"Durch Gefängnisarchitektur, Abschottung und Kommunikationsverbote versucht der türkische Staat, die zehntausenden politischen Gefangenen zu isolieren. Doch die Gefangenen wehren sich gegen das verordnete Schweigen. Ein Projekt, das darauf abzielt, die Isolation der Gefangenen zu durchbrechen, ist das Social-Media-Projekt Rojeva Zindanan, was auf Deutsch etwa „Tagesordnung der Gefängnisse“ bedeutet. Müslüm Aslan ist einer der Redakteure von Rojeva Zindanan und berichtet im ANF-Interview über seine Arbeit, die Stimmen aus den Gefängnissen nach außen zu tragen."
https://emrawi.org/?Das-Schweigen-der-Gesellschaft-ist-das-grosste-Problem-der-Gefangenen-2743
#Rojava #Kurdistan #Torture #politicalprisoner #Erdogan #Turkey #TurkeyAttacksRojava #Antireport
“From Shwe Kokko to KK Park, a slew of brutal criminal enterprises now dot the Moei River that forms Myanmar’s border with #Thailand
Survivors, ensnared by promises of legitimate work, spoke…of #trafficking, #torture – & being forced to defraud strangers online” | Alastair McCready & Allegra Mendelson, SCMP https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3228543/inside-chinese-run-crime-hubs-myanmar-are-conning-world-we-can-kill-you-here
Documentary on #RonDeSantis' time at #GuantanamoBay mysteriously axed by #Paramount
Multiple insiders said "the Paramount-owned cable channel ditched the DeSantis episode over fears of the political consequences of detailing his involvement in the force-feeding of detainees.
Mansoor Adayfi, a detainee interviewed for the documentary, claims DeSantis personally oversaw his force-feeding.
The U.N. has classified force-feeding prisoners as a form of #torture.
Today in Labor History July 19, 1979: Sandinista rebels overthrew the Somoza government in Nicaragua, ending the authoritarian 43-year Somoza family dynasty and replacing it with a revolutionary government. They instituted a program of mass literacy, gender equality and access to medical care. However, they also committed many human rights abuses, including the oppression and mass execution of indigenous people. The Sandinistas are named after Augusto Sandino, who led the rebellion against the U.S. occupation of Nicaragua in the 1930s. He was murdered by Somoza senior in 1934, launching the decades-long dictatorship. In the 1920s, Sandino lived in exile, in Mexico, where he was influenced by anti-imperialist, anarchist and communist revolutionaries, including the IWW. The original and modern Sandinista flags were influenced by the IWW’s anarcho-syndicalist red and black colors.
The CIA orchestrated a Civil War between the Sandinistas and the right-wing Contras from 1984-1989. The Contras blew up rural schools and hospitals and routinely carried out rape and torture. In 1983, U.S. Congress passed the Boland Amendment, banning further aid to the Contrals. And in 1984, the International Court of Justice ruled that the U.S. prior support had been in violation of International law. However, even after the Boland Amendment, the Reagan administration continued to back the Contras by raising money from allies and covertly selling arms to Iran (then engaged in a war with Iraq), and funneling the proceeds to the Contras. In later Congressional hearings, when questioned for 8 hours, Reagan responded that he couldn’t remember at least 124 times, which was sufficient for Congress to absolve him of violating their own law, while National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver North took much of the blame.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #Sandinista #Nicaragua #socialism #IndigenousRights #HumanRights #CivilWar #CIA #imperialism #reagan #rape #torture #dictator #IWW
#Russia has created a vast detention system across two countries to hold thousands of Ukrainian #civilians.
An Associated Press investigation found routine #torture, #SlaveLabor and #PsychologicalAbuse within the system.
#Ukraine
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-prisons-civilians-torture-detainees-88b4abf2efbf383272eed9378be13c722222`
The UN Human Rights Council will discuss evidence of human rights violations in #Ukraine today. It will start with a report from the Secretary General on the situation in #Crimea , which was annexed by #Russia in 2014. The report details repeated #harassment, #imprisonment, and #torture of human rights defenders there by #Russian forces. (cont.)
New policy for this account --- please do not follow or engage with me if you are a defender of #WarCrimes or #Torture by military or police, no matter how just one might perceive the cause.
I put this in the same category as blatant racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc, which means I will block freely.
#Technology
#Facebook content moderators in #Kenya call the work ‘torture.’ Their lawsuit may ripple worldwide
"NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — On the verge of tears, Nathan Nkunzimana recalled watching a video of a child being molested and another of a woman being killed.
Eight hours a day, his job as a content moderator for a Facebook contractor required him to look at horrors so the world wouldn’t have to. Some overwhelmed colleagues would scream or cry, he said."
There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for #Guantanamo still being open. There was no legal or ethical justification for it in the first place.
Some of us are old enough to remember Barack Obama promising in 2008 to shut it down. That was 15 years ago!
OPINION: I was 26 years old when I arrived in Britain on a flimsy and dangerously overcrowded dinghy.
I was desperate and there were no other options.
I was traumatised from the torture I’d endured in Sudan and exhausted by the horrors of my journey.
If Suella Braverman’s Illegal Migration Bill had existed then, I might not be alive today.
#migration #SuellaBraverman #Migration #UK #UKPol #UKpolitics #Sudan #Torture
BBC News - Netherlands and Canada ask world #court to rule on #Syria #torture claims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-65882063
[thread] Guantanamo, torture
Showtime Mysteriously Pulls Documentary on Ron DeSantis’s Role in Guantánamo
A Vice episode was set to dig into DeSantis’s time as an officer at torture camp Guantánamo Bay. It was quietly dropped.
https://newrepublic.com/post/173235/showtime-pulls-documentary-ron-desantiss-role-guantanamo
#SHO #ShowTime #RonDeSantis #DeSantis #Guantanamo #HumanRights #HumanRightsViolations #UnlawfulIncarceration #VICE #cowardice #WarCrimes #torture
Article by theins.ru:
#Zaporizhzhia #Nuclear #Power #Plant staff #forced to sign contracts with #Russia -ns under #torture , #Ukrainian #Energoatom claims
3 arrested after caregivers in #NewMexico accused of torturing a developmentally disabled woman who died in the hospital after the discovery of her condition in a border stop on the way to Mexico supposedly to get her medical care.
The caregivers were paid thousands of dollars a month through a special program meant to offer an alternative to institutional care.
#Autism #RioRancho #WellfareProgramAbuse #Torture #HumanRights
‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings expose the US’s depraved torture policy
"For 21 years, the detainee has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release.
A detainee held in the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay who was used as a human guinea pig in the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program has produced the most comprehensive and detailed account yet seen of the brutal techniques to which he was subjected."
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/may/11/abu-zubaydah-drawings-guantanamo-bay-us-torture-policy
Uugh - #America what are you doing?
TL;DR: " ‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings expose the US’s depraved torture policy. He has created a series of 40 drawings that chronicle the torture he endured in a number of CIA dark sites between 2002 and 2006 and at Guantánamo Bay. The images give a unique and searing insight into a grisly period in US history. "
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/may/11/abu-zubaydah-drawings-guantanamo-bay-us-torture-policy
#Torture #Law #Warcrimes #Allparties #Afghanistan #Iraq #War #News #Politics #Art #History
5/ This may describe a criminal act.
#Torture is widespread in the #DRC
As are #extrajudicial #executions.
I find @afink claiming to not know about this to be laughable. #Congo #Africa #humanrights
Ron De Santis oversaw #torture at Guantánamo Bay when he was in the Navy, and not one major media outlet has covered it. While De Santis's military records were often redacted "to protect personal privacy," Mansoor Adayfi, who was wrongfully held at Guantánamo, without charge, for 14 YEARS, said in 2023, that DeSantis oversaw force-feedings and beatings of detainees both publicly and in his book, Don't Forget Us Here. (That pudding story make a lot more sense, now, doesn't it?)
#RonDeSantis
‘We demand the #torture cease’ Margaret #Atwood , Jude Law, Salman #Rushdie , and more than 100 other public figures call for Alexey #Navalny ’s release
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/04/28/we-demand-the-torture-cease
New HRW report on a Russian #Torture Center in #Kherson: Unlawful Detention, Torture of Civilians During 8-Month #Occupation
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/13/ukraine-russian-torture-center-kherson
#WARNING! EXTREME BLOODY SCENE(S) OF #TORTURE AND #HUMAN_CRUCIFIXION. What AND #WHO is #EASTER? #Good_Friday (1990 YEARS AGO --Today | Jesus was approx. 33 years old at the time of #HIS Crucifixion | AKA #GOD IN THE #FLESH) AND was Crucified and NAILED to a wooden cross -- led by the #Pharisees (a #Jewish #Social_Movement?? and a #School of Thought?? in the Levant during the time of Second Temple #Judaism?? (Old Testament Only aka ½ of the #TRUTH??). AND #Rose_Again from the Dead 3 days later with 500 Biblical #Recorded #Witnesses = #Easter_Sunday. (HE HAS #RISEN—HE HAS RISEN #INDEED!)
Jesus Christ was seen by over 500 people
1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Over 500 people at one time saw Jesus after His resurrection.
Over a #period of 40 #days up to the day Jesus went back Home He was seen by, and talked to a number of individuals.
Jesus said He would come back the same way He went to Heaven.
Look towards the bottom of the page for the 12 different recorded appearances of Jesus:
https://bibleview.org/en/bible/easter/500people/
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#15yrsago Declassified memo authorized US to #torture “#EnemyCombatants” https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102213.html
#10yrsago HOWTO turn a dead hard-drive into a cotton candy machine https://web.archive.org/web/20130402130715/http://micgadget.com/24223/turning-an-old-hard-disk-into-a-candy-floss-machine/
#10yrsago Nevada State Legislature poised to take regulation of #BurningMan away from state and local cops https://burners.me/2013/03/30/the-man-vs-the-man-will-local-authorities-be-booted-from-burning-man/
#10yrsago #TSA routinely violates own rules and the law to discriminate against people w/disabilities https://s.ai/tsa/
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#15yrsago Maximum City: exhausting and beautiful love-note to #Mumbai https://memex.craphound.com/2008/03/10/maximum-city-exhausting-and-beautiful-love-note-to-mumbai/
#15yrsago FBI interrogator: #Torture doesn’t work, breeds terrorism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvsvO9kvSdo
#5yrsago Bad news: #Omega3s don’t confer any significant health benefits; good news: They’re mostly harmless https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2670752
#5yrsago #Wikimedia’s transparency report is a joy https://diff.wikimedia.org/2018/03/06/wikimedia-releases-eighth-transparency-report/
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Ron DeSantis, torturer: Details from a torture victim at Guantanamo
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/03/ron-desantis-force-feedings-guantanamo-bay-laughing/
#guantanamo #politics #desantis #torture #-
Solidarität mit #AlfredoCospito Ein italienischer Anarchist im Hungerstreik gegen die Isolationshaft
"Seit dem 20. Oktober 2022 befindet sich der italienische Anarchist Alfredo Cospito im Hungerstreik und fordert ein Ende seiner Isolationshaft unter dem “41bis”-Regime. Am 3. Februar 2023 hatte er bereits 107 Tage ohne Nahrungsaufnahme verbracht.
Im Laufe der letzten dreieinhalb Monate verlor Alfredo mehr als 45kg. Bobby Sands, Mitglied der Irish Republican Army, der während seines Hungerstreiks im Jahr 1981 in das Parlament gewählt wurde, starb nach 66 Tagen ohne Nahrung. An der Schwelle zum Tod wurde Alfredo nun in eine medizinische Einrichtung verlegt. Sein Leben hängt am seidenen Faden."
Via @CrimethInc
https://de.crimethinc.com/2023/02/03/solidaritat-mit-alfredo-cospito-ein-italienischer-anarchist-im-hungerstreik-gegen-die-isolationshaft
#41bis #torture #FreeThemAll #abolishprisons #antireport #hungerstrike
Solidarity with these brave hunger strikers in Texas. Solitary is torture.
Advocates say 22 Texas inmates still on hunger strike but state disputes figure
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/04/texas-hunger-strike-solitary-confinement?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#Texas #solitary #torture #HumanRights #HungerStrike #prison
#BBC News - #Russian #army #officer admits: 'Our troops #torture #Ukrainians'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64470092
By Steve Rosenberg
#5yrsago Trump’s “consumer protection bureau” will let the $50B #PaydayLending industry gouge the poorest Americans with triple-digit interest rates https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-cfpb-payday-lenders-20180119-story.html
#5yrsago The Republican candidate for Pennsylvania’s 18th District is a #torture advocate who worked at #AbuGhraib https://theintercept.com/2018/01/19/gop-candidate-for-pennsylvania-special-election-is-a-former-abu-ghraib-interrogation-consultant/
#5yrsago It’s #Poe’s birthday, so here’s #NeilGaiman reading The Raven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jSHKPp-66w
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@tofugolem simply #horrific, #inhumane and #diabolical
(Not sure who might search for those #’s)
#Abortion #FullTerm #stillbirth #CarryToTerm #Emotional #Torture
DEMONSTRATION IN THE CENTRE OF MILAN
In #solidarity with #AlfredoCospito on hunger strike to the bitter end against #41bis and life imprisonment without possibility of parole
(Milan, Italy, December 29, 2022)
#SolidarityMeansAttack
Rome,Italy:
Electric car charging points damaged in solidarity with anarchists Alfredo Cospito, #IvanAlocco and all #prisoners
#anarchism #repression #torture #italy #FreeThemAll #abolishprisons #Antireport