(2023-03-30). New Report On US Solitary Confinement. popularresistance.org In prisons and jails across America, between 41,000 and 48,000 people are currently being held in solitary confinement, or "isolation," as it is called in a new study by the Correctional Leaders Association and the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale University Law School. | Those numbers are too high, especially when the United Nations' special rapporteur for torture has called the U.S. practice of using solitary confinement as a punishment a form of torture. Still, as high as the numbers are, they are far lower than they were in 2014. And there is growing support across the country for solitary…
(2023-03-30). Chechen Torturers From Syria Sign Deal With Ukraine To Fight Russians. popularresistance.org In early March, Asia Times reported that the Ukrainian government under Volodymyr Zelensky had signed a deal with newly arrived Chechen fighters from Syria to establish an all-Chechen brigade reporting directly to the Ministry of Defense. | Many of the Chechens in Syria had been part of ISIS and other al-Qaeda offshoots like Jabhat al-Nusra, with Chechen commander Abu Omar al-Shishani serving as ISIS Minister of War. | The Chechens wanted to directly fight the Russians with whom they have been at war for more than 300 years—and to fight against Chechen forces on the Russian side led by Ramzan Kadyrov, who s…
(2023-03-30). Australia Court Rules Whistleblower Protection Law Does Not Protect Whistleblower Richard Boyle. thedissenter.org An Australia court decided the Public Interest Disclosure Act does not protect whistleblower Richard Boyle from facing a criminal trial.
(2023-03-30). New Report On US Solitary Confinement. popularresistance.org In prisons and jails across America, between 41,000 and 48,000 people are currently being held in solitary confinement, or "isolation," as it is called in a new study by the Correctional Leaders Association and the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale University Law School. | Those numbers are too high, especially when the United Nations' special rapporteur for torture has called the U.S. practice of using solitary confinement as a punishment a form of torture. Still, as high as the numbers are, they are far lower than they were in 2014. And there is growing support across the country for solitary…
(2023-03-30). Chechen Torturers From Syria Sign Deal With Ukraine To Fight Russians. popularresistance.org In early March, Asia Times reported that the Ukrainian government under Volodymyr Zelensky had signed a deal with newly arrived Chechen fighters from Syria to establish an all-Chechen brigade reporting directly to the Ministry of Defense. | Many of the Chechens in Syria had been part of ISIS and other al-Qaeda offshoots like Jabhat al-Nusra, with Chechen commander Abu Omar al-Shishani serving as ISIS Minister of War. | The Chechens wanted to directly fight the Russians with whom they have been at war for more than 300 years—and to fight against Chechen forces on the Russian side led by Ramzan Kadyrov, who s…
(2023-03-30). Australia Court Rules Whistleblower Protection Law Does Not Protect Whistleblower Richard Boyle. thedissenter.org An Australia court decided the Public Interest Disclosure Act does not protect whistleblower Richard Boyle from facing a criminal trial.