orinocotribune (2021-04-05). Alex Saab: 'I was Tortured and Pressured' to Sign Voluntary Extradition. orinocotribune.com In a recent interview with the Colombian news outlet El Espectador, Colombian-Venezuelan businessman and Venezuelan special envoy àÅlex Saab confessed to having been a victim of torture from the first day of his "kidnapping" in Cape Verde. He asserted that he was pressured "to sign voluntary extradition statements and give false testimony." Saab has been in detention in Cape Verde—first in prison and now under house arrest—since his arbitrary and irregular arrest in June 2020 in that country. | "I was kidnapped by Cape Verde in collusion with the United States," said the Venezuelan diplomat duri…

Anonymous103 (2021-04-04). Al-Hol Camp: State Of Crime, Torture And Misery. southfront.org Source: UNICEF/UN0277723/Souleiman | Submitted by Khaled Iskef. | The al-Hol camp is a time-bomb for what the remnants of ISIS and their families under this Kurdish administration in northern Syria. | The camp was originally established to house Iraqi refugees in early 1991 during the

Anonymous103 (2021-04-04). Al-Hol Camp: State Of Crime, Torture And Misery. southfront.org Source: UNICEF/UN0277723/Souleiman | Submitted by Khaled Iskef. | The al-Hol camp is a time-bomb for what the remnants of ISIS and their families under this Kurdish administration in northern Syria. | The camp was originally established to house Iraqi refugees in early 1991 during the

otowenh (2021-04-03). Pope Needs to Send Easter Message to Biden on Assange. orinocotribune.com Francis the First thought of the WikiLeaks publisher languishing in his cell on Palm Sunday and should consider sending a second message, writes Elizabeth Vos. | Pope Francis delivered a message of support last Sunday to WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange after a hard night in Belmarsh prison, according to a After a hard night, Julian woke up this morning to a kind, personal message from Pope Francis

WSWS (2021-04-03). Drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale pleads guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act. wsws.org The former Air Force enlistee and intelligence analyst pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count against him under the Espionage Act of 1917 for providing information to a reporter about criminal drone strikes carried out by the US government.

Fight Back (2021-04-03). Illinois: After 31 Years, Gerald Reed is Free! fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. | The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR) greets the commutation of Gerald Reed's life sentence today by Governor J. B. Pritzker as a courageous act to set right a terrible crime against a Black man committed 31 years ago. Now we need to finish the job of freeing all survivors of police torture who were convicted by confessions coerced by police and dismantling the prison industrial complex as a whole. | Reed was convicted of a double murder in 1990 after…