#Pennsylvania grandfather who was granted #political asylum in 1987 after surviving #torture at the hands of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime was #disappeared by ICE. The family was then told he died.
Now they learned that he's actually alive, was deported, and is in a hospital in #Guatemala.
https://www.mcall.com/2025/07/18/luis-leon-allentown-grandfather-ice-guatemala/
Whatever the media rhetoric, it's not being dicussed that Ron DeSantis comes out of the Guantanamo disciplinary camp. That means people have less dots they can connect for understanding the foundational elements at play in this Florida detention center or whatever it is. #torture
Did Ron DeSantis Observe Guantanamo Force-Feeding as Navy JAG? https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/05/01/desantis-guantanamo-force-feeding/
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.
Sophie speaks the truth. Strayans just don't care. We are absolute arseholes.
12 years on, are we not yet tired of cruel policies towards asylum-seekers?
How can Australia hope to model a future direction, without an honest, if confronting, assessment of its past and present failures towards humanity?
Sophie Singh is a long term campaigner for refugee rights and member of the Canberra Refugee Action Campaign, Sophie Singh was also an organiser with the 2025 Big Walk 4 Refugees, a virtual walk of 44,000kms of solidarity held throughout June with those who came to Australia seeking safety.
Preventing #Torture in War: Insights from Ukrainian Human Rights Defender
https://www.omct.org/en/resources/blog/preventing-torture-in-war-ukrainie
Today in Labor History July 18, 1982: Over 250 Achi Maya (mostly women and children) were murdered by the Guatemalan armed forces and paramilitaries in the Plan de Sánchez massacre. They separated the girls, who were 15 to 20 years old, and raped them. Then they broke their arms and legs and killed them. Children were smashed against the floor and then thrown into the flames with their parents. Many of the weapons used by the Guatemalan military had been supplied by Israel, particularly after the U.S. Congress banned military aid to the country because of its atrocious human rights record. One relative of the victims said, "in church they tell us that divine justice is on the side of the poor; but the fact of the matter is, it is the military who get the Israeli guns."
The massacre was part of the scorched earth policies of dictator Rios Mont. Despite his history of genocidal war crimes, Rios Mont was repeatedly elected to Congress in the 1990s and early 2000’s. In 2013, he was sentenced to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity, but his sentence was overruled by the Constitutional Court and he never served time.
Today in Labor History July 18, 1942: 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards helped members of the Nazi SS kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia in the Beisfjord massacre. The Nazis had brought over 5,000 mostly Serbian political prisoners to Norway, as slave labor, to help build defenses against the Allies. Over 2,300 of them died in Norwegian prison camps. Overall, there were over 150,000 POWs, political prisoners, and slaver laborers, in Norway between 1941 and 1945. The majority were Soviets. Author Knut Flovik Thoresen wrote, in 2013: "You can be sure that if Norwegian prisoners had been exposed to similar [atrocities], then many of the perpetrators would have been sentenced to death. Instead, most were let off with sentences more lenient than those received by women who served as nurses at the front lines."
American Authoritarianism
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/18/american-authoritarianism/
Torture, rotating judges and prosecutors and incarceration for a generation without charges or trial are all hallmarks of an authoritarian government, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. By Andrew P. Napolitano Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a…
#Politics #BidenAdministration #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Cuba #Legal #Terrorism #TheBush43Administration #Torture #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #AndrewP.Napolitano #DueProcess #Gitmo #GuantanamoBay #HabeasCorpus #KhalidSheikhMohammed #LloydAustin
Putin uses ‘lethal’ WW1 gas to attack Ukrainian troops on the Frontline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDWk_wjue94
#putin #ruSSia #kleptofascist #billionaire #looter #torture #rape #terror #warcrimes #maffia #kgb #nazi #junta
Message de Standing-together (Israël) diffusé sur #bluesky le (2025-07-16)
- https://bsky.app/profile/standing-together.bsky.social/post/3lu3cllymjc2p
# 1/4
Le Dr Hossam Abu Safiya est affamé, torturé et privé de soins médicaux dans une cellule de prison souterraine israélienne.
# 2/4
Selon son avocat, la santé du Dr Abu Safiya, directeur de l'hôpital Kamal Adwan de Gaza, s'est gravement détériorée lors de sa détention dans la tristement célèbre prison israélienne d'Ofer.
Il a perdu 40 kilogrammes (88 livres) sous la garde israélienne, passant de 100 kg (220 livres) à seulement 60 kg (132 livres).
# 3/4
Son avocat, Ghaid Ghanem Qassem, a déclaré après lui avoir rendu visite en prison :
« Il a été soumis à un passage à tabac violent qui a duré environ 30 minutes, en particulier au niveau de la cage thoracique, du visage, de la tête et du cou, ce qui lui a causé de graves blessures.
# 4/4
Ce qui se passe dans ces prisons est une violation des droits de l'homme et une tentative délibérée de punir les Palestiniens.
Une grande partie de cela est le résultat des changements de politique de Ben-Gvir après l'attaque du Hamas du 7 octobre.
C'est une politique de privation, de punition et de déshumanisation.
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# English version
# 1/4
Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya is being starved, tortured, and denied medical care in an underground Israeli prison cell.
# 2/4
The health of Dr Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, has severely deteriorated in Israeli detention in Israel's infamous Ofer prison according to his lawyer.
He has lost 40 kilograms (88 pounds) in Israeli custody, dropping from 100 kg (220 pounds) to just 60 kg (132 pounds).
# 3/4
His Lawyer, Ghaid Ghanem Qassem, said after visiting him in prison:
“He was subjected to a violent beating that lasted about 30 minutes, especially in the areas of the rib cage, face, head, and neck, which caused him serious injuries
# 4/4
What is happening inside these prisons is a violation of human rights, and a deliberate attempt to punish Palestinians.
Much of this is a result of Ben-Gvir’s policy changes after Hamas’ October 7 attack.
It’s a policy of deprivation, punishment, and dehumanization
#Gaza #Israel #Torture #Hopitaux #StandingTogether #FoST # AbuSafiya
Today in Labor History July 15, 1954: Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco amended their vagrancy law to include LGBTQ people, including punishments of hard labor and detention in concentration camps, where they were routinely subjected to sexual violence. The majority of detainees were working-class gay men and trans women. It was not uncommon to hear upper class and aristocratic gays and lesbians refer to the dictatorship as a “great” historical period. Indeed, Salvador Dali continued to fawn over the fascist dictator until his death, in spite of the fact that Franco executed Dali’s own lover, the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, in the 1930s. And Andre Breton kicked Dali out of the Paris Surrealist Group for his fascist leanings.
Fascism continued in Spain up until Franco’s death, in 1975. Today, however, both Barcelona and Madrid are often described as among the most LGBTQ-friendly cities in the world. In 2005, Spain became one of the first countries in the world to legalize gay marriage. And Madrid’s Pride event is one of the largest in Europe, in spite of the fact that the city remains one of the most politically conservative regions of Spain.
You can see the trailer for Las noches de Tefía, about the concentration camp in the Canary Islands, that Franco used for LGBTQ prisoners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5nk7ikWdUk
The Zionists keeps telling us what they are, don't they?
And the rest of us, do we look away from this?
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, is being held under extremely alarming conditions after being detained and taken to an ISR prison in December following a brutal military campaign on the key #gaza hospital
His lawyer, Ghaida Qasem, detailed Abu Safiya's state, reporting that he had lost 40 kilograms. Dr. Abu Safiya is held in an underground cell with no exposure to sunlight #warcrimes #torture
Report Al Mayadeen JUL-14
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/dr--abu-safiya-enduring-severe-abuse-in-israeli-prison--lawy
(his name is not Navalny, so EU humanitarian leaders and media don't care about him)
Lawyer Ghai Qasem has confirmed that Israeli occupation forces beat Dr Hussam Abu Safia severely on June 24, and his health has deteriorated significantly in Israeli custody.
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital has lost more than 40kg since he was kidnapped from Gaza in December.
The occupation authorities refused to provide medical treatment to Abu Safiya although he suffers from cardiac arrhythmia.
Dr. Hussam is still wearing winter clothes and held in a cell deviod of sunlight amid inhumane detention conditions.
#FreeDrAbuSafia #Torture #Inhumanity #Hypocrisy
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml
Today in Labor History July 14, 1789: Parisians stormed the Bastille during the French Revolution. The Bastille was a fortress, armory and political prison, and was a symbol of tyranny, feudal authority and the "divine" rights of kings. The Marquis de Sade had been imprisoned there and was transferred out only 10 days before the storming. The French Revolution succeeded in overthrowing the monarchy, replacing it with a bourgeois republic. However, it sparked optimism among working people throughout the world and inspired other revolutions, like the Haitian Revolution, in 1791.
Lawyer of Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, currently imprisoned by Israel, wrote:
Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya is not okay.
My last visit to him was on July 9, 2025.
He has lost over 40 kilograms — more than one-third of his body weight.
At the time of his arrest, he weighed 100 kg — today, he weighs no more than 60 kg.
On June 24, 2025, he was severely beaten.
His room (Room 1, Section 24 – Ofer Prison) was specifically raided.
He was brutally assaulted in the chest area and sustained severe bruises to the face, head, back, and neck.
The beating lasted approximately 30 minutes.
Dr. Hossam requested medical care, proper testing, and to be examined by a cardiologist — but his request was denied.
He suffers from irregular heartbeat. His eyeglasses, which had recently been sent to him through his lawyer, were broken.
He is still wearing winter clothes while enduring starvation, torture, solitary confinement, and total deprivation — buried underground, with no exposure to sunlight.
Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, like all Palestinian detainees, is not okay.
https://nitter.net/SuppressedNws/status/1944597934516981899#m
#prisoners #AbuSafiya #IsraelTerroristState #torture #PalestinianCaptives
The lack of info about detainees sent to SS & SLV has drawn charges from indep experts appt by the UN that
the US may be engaging in “enforced disappearance,” st-sponsored abductions that're banned under INTL law.
An INTL law expert: US officials had “not been cooperative” in response to their Qs, adding that as recently as a year ago, the US was “very responsive.”
A #DHS SPOX declined to comment.
In Sept, UN experts: formal update on US: #deportations.
#Torture #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/south-sudan-third-country-deportations.html
Interceptor Drones & The War in Ukraine - Affordable Air Defence & Russian Strategic Bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4bHc4X5Ilw
#ruSSia #putin #oligarch #billionaire #looter #kleptofascist #torture #rape #terror #maffia
#ICE memo outlines plan to #deport #immigrants to countries where they are not #citizens
The shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
Federal #immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as 6 hours notice to countries not their own even if ofcls have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from #persecution or #torture….
#Trump #law #rendition
https://wapo.st/3TxrUES
standingogether_fr 
