Prisons: tear them down

U.S. protesters demand release and repatriation of Aafia Siddiqui

Reprint from Al Jazeera Excerpts from an article in Al Jazeera Dozens of protesters and human rights activists are calling…

October 28, 2021

Abuse at Philadelphia County Jails must stop now!

Dozens of relatives and friends of incarcerated people, recently released former prisoners and community activists held a protest outside a…

October 27, 2021

Medical release for Maroon

Oct. 25 — Pennsylvania political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz’s petition for medical release was finally granted by Philadelphia County Court…

October 25, 2021

Oakland rally demands: ‘Free Julian Assange!’

Oakland, Calif. Oct. 23 — A broad coalition of antiwar and anti-imperialist groups converged here at the Grand Lake Theater,…

October 25, 2021

Free U.S. political prisoner Dr. Aafia Siddiqui!

The case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is another great miscarriage of justice in the long history of the U.S. legal-carceral…

October 21, 2021

U.S. illegally extradites Venezuelan diplomat from Cabo Verde to the U.S.

The Free Alex Saab Committee issued the following news release October 18. For further information see https://afgj.org/free-alex-saab. The Venezuelan diplomat…

October 18, 2021

International tribunal of legal experts to judge U.S. human rights abuses against Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples, Oct. 22-25

The following is lightly edited from a press release issued by the tribunal: In the Spirit of Mandela, an unprecedented…

October 18, 2021

Free Leonard Peltier and all Native prisoners!

During the era of colonial theft and conquest, North America became a proving ground for European imperialists. This was where…

October 13, 2021

‘Inhumane conditions’ – Ex-jail director faces jail

Cleveland Former Cuyahoga County Jail Director Ken Mills was sentenced to nine months in prison Oct. 8, after a three-week…

October 13, 2021

78th birthday of Imam Jamil Al-Amin

The 78th birthday of political prisoner Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly known as the Black militant activist, H. Rap Brown) was…

October 11, 2021