#humanrightsviolations — Public Fediverse posts

⚠️ #NasimehEslamzahi, prigioniera sunnita detenuta a Evin, è stata condannata a 25 anni di carcere per «baghi», ribellione armata. Nasimeh ha sempre respinto le accuse e il tribunale le ha imposto un avvocato d’ufficio per il procedimento. Madre di due bambine, Nasimeh ha partorito la seconda figlia, Tasnim, a Evin nell’aprile 2024. Madre e neonata sono rimaste per 40 giorni in isolamento in condizioni inadeguate.
#EvinPrison #Iran #StopRepression #HumanRightsViolations
https://www.en-hrana.org/nasimeh-eslamzahi-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison/

#NargesHeydari, 38 anni, allenatrice di fitness e bodybuilding di Izeh, è stata condannata a 5 anni di carcere per «azioni contro la sicurezza nazionale». Arrestata il 19 gennaio 2026 durante le proteste, è detenuta a Sepidar. Le è stato imposto anche 1 anno di attività obbligatorie di «promozione del bene», legate al mancato rispetto delle norme sull’abbigliamento obbligatorio e sull’hijab durante la sua attività sportiva.
#SepidarPrison #Iran #HumanRightsViolations
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2026/09/article-46-1

L’UNICEF ha ricevuto segnalazioni di campagne di mobilitazione in Iran che coinvolgono anche bambini, nonché di bambini impiegati ai posti di blocco.
Chiediamo alla Repubblica Islamica dell’Iran di porre fine a qualsiasi forma di reclutamento di minori.
Il reclutamento e l’impiego di bambini da parte di forze armate o gruppi costituiscono una grave violazione dei diritti dei minori.
#UNICEF #ChildRights #Iran #IranWar #ProtectChildren #StopChildRecruitment #HumanRightsViolations

what are they, and how will they change the rights of migrants and asylum seekers?

The EU is in the process of creating a new system that will make it easier to return…
#Europe #EU #detentioncentres #EUmemberstates #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanParliament #Europeanstandards #EuropeanUnion #fundamentalrights #hubs #humanrightsviolations #internationalhumanrights #RefugeeConvention #Regulation
https://www.europesays.com/europe/3548/

@fabio Also due to these regulations I cannot buy antibiotic ointment when the Czech regime is depriving me of healthcare when I have an infected eczema and am afraid it will produce sepsis and I die, because antibiotic ointment ran out and when I call a dermatologist and tell I need it urgently she gives me an appointment 4 months (!!!) in the future!

In a corrupt developing 3rd world dictatorship Cambodia it is possible to buy antibiotic ointments without prescription and also dermatologist wait there is only 7-10 days, not 4 months.

I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Czech regime.

#healthdeprivation #deprivation #czech #czechia #czechregime #czechrepublic #failedstate #contempt #regulations #overregulation #bureaucracy #overbureaucratization #healthcaresystem #healthcare #antibiotic #prescription #otc #overthecounter #ointment #eczema #infection #infected #sepsis #death #lethal #dangerous #danger #hazard #risk #eu #deathbybureaucracy #deathbyregulation #kafkaesque #humanrights #humanrightsviolation #humanrightsviolations #righttohealth #humanrighttohealth #basichumanrighttohealth

#Iran – 41° giorno di proteste (HRANA)
675 episodi in 210 città (31 province).
6.955 morti: 6.505 manifestanti, 175 minori, 214 forze governative, 61 civili.
11.021 feriti, 51.251 arresti, 111 studenti arrestati, 311 confessioni forzate, 11.048 convocazioni.
Continuano repressione, arresti e pressioni giudiziarie.
#FreeIran #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranProtests2026 #IranRevolution2026 #IranMassacre2026 #HumanRightsViolations
https://www.en-hrana.org/day-41-of-the-protests-new-domestic-and-international-reactions-to-the-protests-and-the-continued-arrests/

Al 38° giorno di proteste in Iran, HRANA segnala 6.872 morti (6.443 manifestanti, 156 minori), 11.021 feriti e oltre 50.500 arresti. Continuano repressione, arresti e interruzioni di internet. Nuove sanzioni australiane e dichiarazioni francesi mostrano la portata internazionale della crisi.
#FreeIran #IranProtests2026 #IranRevolution2026 #HumanRightsViolations #Iran
https://www.en-hrana.org/day-38-of-nationwide-protests-continued-student-gatherings-arrests-and-internet-disruptions/

Il 2 febbraio il quotidiano Shargh ha pubblicato un’inchiesta sul destino incerto di 25 tra medici e infermieri arrestati dopo le proteste di gennaio; due sono stati rilasciati su cauzione.
Le autorità negano che gli arresti siano legati all’attività professionale, ma testimonianze parlano di irruzioni negli ospedali, arresti diffusi nel settore sanitario e minacce alle famiglie dei detenuti.
#FreeIran #IranProtests2026 #IranRevolution2026 #HumanRightsViolations #Iran
https://iranwire.com/en/news/148579-shargh-reports-arrest-of-25-doctors-and-nurses-after-january-protests/

Almeno nove persone, tra cui tre minorenni, sono state arrestate negli ultimi giorni dalle forze governative iraniane, nell’ambito della continua ondata di arresti legati alle proteste in corso nel Paese. Gli arresti sono avvenuti a Masjed Soleyman, Behbahan, Isfahan, Qazvin, Teheran, Chabahar e Bandar Abbas.
#FreeIran #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranProtests2026 #IranRevolution2026 #HumanRightsViolations #Iran
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2026/02/article-6

HRANA: al 36° giorno di proteste in #Iran, i morti confermati sono 6.842: 6.425 manifestanti, 146 minori, 214 affiliati al governo e 57 civili non coinvolti. 11.280 casi restano da verificare.
Si contano 11.021 feriti, 94 arresti di studenti, 296 confessioni forzate e 11.046 convocazioni. Proteste in 207 città di 31 province.
#FreeIran #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranProtests2026 #IranRevolution2026 #HumanRightsViolations
https://www.en-hrana.org/day-thirty-six-of-the-protests-government-releases-list-of-names-and-state-tv-insults-those-killed/

Secondo HRANA, al 35° giorno di proteste i morti confermati sono 6.713: 6.305 manifestanti, 137 minori, 214 forze governative e 57 civili. Oltre 11.000 feriti, 84 arresti di studenti, 295 confessioni forzate e più di 11.000 convocazioni. La repressione continua, colpendo in particolare avvocati e personale medico, tra arresti mirati e persecuzioni giudiziarie.
#FreeIran #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranProtests2026 #IranRevolution2026 #HumanRightsViolations
https://www.en-hrana.org/day-35-of-the-protests-pressure-on-medical-staff-and-lawyers-continued-arrests/

Secondo HRANA, al 34° giorno di proteste in #Iran i morti confermati sono 6.563, tra cui 6.170 manifestanti e 124 minori. Oltre 49.000 arresti e più di 11.000 feriti. Prosegue la repressione interna, mentre aumentano le reazioni e le sanzioni internazionali contro i Pasdaran (IRGC).
#FreeIran #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranProtests2026 #IranRevolution2026 #HumanRightsViolations
https://www.en-hrana.org/day-thirty-four-of-the-protests-new-sanctions-and-forced-confessions/

Al 33° giorno di proteste in Iran, HRANA riporta 6.479 morti, tra cui 6.092 manifestanti e 118 minori. Oltre 11.000 feriti, migliaia di convocazioni e confessioni forzate. Proteste in 203 città. Mentre cresce la pressione internazionale, la repressione interna continua con arresti e intimidazioni.
#FreeIran #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranProtests2026 #IranRevolution2026 #HumanRightsViolations
https://www.en-hrana.org/day-33-of-protests-eu-designates-irgc-as-a-terrorist-organization-as-repression-persists/

Gli 8 e 9 gennaio sono stati tra i giorni più sanguinosi nella storia recente dell’Iran. Migliaia di persone sono scese in strada contro corruzione, disuguaglianze e repressione, affrontando proiettili veri. Tra le vittime c’era Raha Bohloulipour, 23 anni, studentessa all’Università di Teheran, simbolo della generazione che ha reclamato la libertà.
#RahaBohloulipour #Teheran #IranProtests2026 #IranRevolution2026 #HumanRightsViolations
https://iranwire.com/en/features/148149-the-virtual-life-of-raha-bohloulipour-the-girl-who-wept-at-the-scent-of-shirazs-orange-blossoms/

BREAKING NEWS: In a shocking statement, Karoline Leavitt confirms the #TraitorTrumpRegime is taking steps on a pathway to deport AMERICAN CITIZENS to El Salvador. This is absolutely insane. A concentration camp network may be funded for the US, and there are already labor camps in the Prison-Industrial-Complex where work gets off-shored at the state-level #HumanRightsViolations #FuckTrumpMafiaRegime #FuckTrumpNaziDeathParty https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/8/2315354/-Anyone-seems-brandable-into-deportable-enemy-aliens-on-the-current-path-to-perfect-lawlessness #prison_industrial_complex #StopProject2025

#BigOil’s Plan To #Criminalize #Pipeline #Protests

By ExposedByCMD Editors
| June 18th, 2024
at 12:21 PM (CDT)

"#AnneWhiteHat found herself facing up to 10 years in prison after she was arrested for two counts of felony trespassing in September 2018 under one such law, which had just taken effect in Louisiana following pressure from oil and gas lobbyists.

She was one of four Native women who founded a resistance camp called L’eau Est La Vie, which was organizing nonviolent direct actions in protest of the #BayouBridgePipeline — a now-operating 163-mile pipeline owned by #EnergyTransfer that transports crude oil throughout the state. The protests ranged from a rendition of 'Crawfish the Musical' on the construction site to protesters locking themselves to pipeline equipment to tree sits in the centuries-old cypresses the company planned to tear down.

"The Bayou Bridge pipeline is the tail end of the #DakotaAccess route — White Hat had already joined her relatives to participate in the resistance camp at Standing Rock in North Dakota. 'I felt like it was a righteous cause, not to let them comfortably continue to threaten the waters of Indigenous #FirstNations,' she said. 'I was inspired from the work up North and just couldn’t let them continue down here unanswered and unchecked.'

White Hat had just finished leading a prayer ceremony when she was arrested at a boat ramp miles from the pipeline construction site. She was hauled into a sheriff deputy’s car with two other women and driven through tall sugar cane fields on the way to jail.

'It was terrifying,' said White Hat. 'We’re way out in the middle of nowhere. I was like, ‘Is this the point where I actually disappear?’

Investigative journalist Karen Savage was arrested that day, too — her second arrest under felony trespass charges as she reported on the Bayou Bridge protests. She was one of the only reporters to travel to the Atchafalaya Basin swamp, where the pipeline was being constructed.

By the time the water protectors got to the swamp, Savage said, they 'had done everything — they went to public meetings, they had petitions, they wrote letters, they tried to meet with the governor — they did everything they tell you in school, to participate and use your civil obligation in your community.' Despite their best efforts in one of the most oil- and gas-friendly states in the country, said Savage, 'nobody was listening.'"

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/06/18/big-oils-plan-to-criminalize-pipeline-protests/

#BigOilAndGas #CriminalizingDissent #ACAB #HumanRightsViolations #IndigenousActivism #CorporateColonialism #IndigenousLandDefenders
#DirectAction #CorporateFascism #CriminalizingDissent
#WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #EcoActivists #NoDAPL

Trial of #LandDefenders Fighting the #CoastalGasLink #Pipeline is Put on Hold as Canadian #Police Come Under Scrutiny for Excessive Force

The defense for three activists from #FirstNations argues abuse of process by security forces around the pipeline construction site, as the U.N. and Amnesty International allege excessive force, surveillance and #criminalization of land defenders.

By Keerti Gopal
January 24, 2024

"The trial of three Indigenous land defenders arrested at a pipeline construction site on #unceded #Wetsuweten First Nation land was adjourned until spring on Friday, as the court looks into potential abuses by Canadian police.

"In the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Smithers, B.C., the trial is the latest development in the nearly 12-year fight against the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline in the Canadian province.

"Land defenders #Sleydo’ #MollyWickham, #ShayLynnSampson and #CoreyJocko were found guilty of criminal contempt earlier this month, with Justice Michael Tanmen ruling that they broke a court injunction forbidding them from blocking access to construction for the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

"But immediately following the verdict, Tanmen began a week-long hearing to listen to the three individuals’ abuse of process applications, which allege that their Charter rights were violated during their arrests and detentions. During the hearing, the defense argued to stay the charges based on these applications, citing excessive force, aggressive behavior, offensive language and mocking by police.

"In Canada, the abuse of process doctrine allows courts to stay, or postpone, a proceeding on the grounds that some element of the process was unfair, and might undermine the legal system. In this case, the abuse of process application focused on treatment during and after arrests.

"The trial began on Jan. 8 and consisted mainly of witness testimony and evidence gathered in November 2021, during one of four major police raids at the pipeline between 2019 and 2023. The evidence included videos from social media and other videos taken by officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada’s national police service.

"The videos, and testimony from witnesses, including #RCMP officers, detailed the police using dogs and firearms and wielding chainsaws to cut down the doors of a cabin where Sleydo’ and Sampson were arrested. Jocko was arrested in another small structure close by.

"The activists allege police used excessive force to break down the doors and used offensive language, showing videos in which officers described arrestees as 'orcs' and 'ogres.' The abuse of process hearing will likely restart in June.

"Chief Na’Moks, a Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief and prominent advocate against the pipeline, said that the trial may serve as a template for future legal battles across Canada, where several other pipeline projects are underway.

"'This is going to affect everything else that happens, not only in #BritishColumbia but in #Canada,' Chief Na’Moks said last week. “This is the template that they want to use...and the harassment and constant abuse of #HumanRights has to stop.”

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24012024/first-nations-activists-fighting-coastal-gaslink-pipeline/

#ACAB #HumanRightsViolations #IndigenousActivism #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #IndigenousLandDefenders
#UncededLand #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent
#WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #EcoActivists

#Wetsuweten Law Cannot ‘Coexist’ with BC Court Order, Judge Determines
Chief Dsta’hyl has been found guilty of criminal contempt.

by Amanda Follett Hosgood, #TheTyee

21 Feb 2024

"Wet’suwet’en hereditary leaders have opposed #pipeline construction through their traditional territory since before the #CoastalGasLink pipeline project was first proposed. In December 2018, the B.C. Supreme Court issued an interim injunction to the company, which prohibited anyone from blocking pipeline access roads or work sites. A year later, on Dec. 31, 2019, the court granted a permanent injunction for the duration of the project.

[...]

"Last month, Tammen determined there was sufficient evidence to convict three #Indigenous #LandDefenders — Sleydo’ Molly Wickham, Shaylynn Sampson and Corey Jocko. They were arrested the day after Dennis and later charged with criminal #contempt. Hearings have begun into an application by the defence to stay the charges based on police conduct during the arrests.

"#ChiefDstahyl’s arrest took place in October 2021, after a series of interactions with Coastal GasLink workers and security contractors on the Shea Forest Service Road on Likhts’amisyu Clan territory.

"During those interactions, Dsta’hyl and others blocked access to a work camp and 'seized and rendered inoperable' multiple pieces of machinery belonging to Coastal GasLink contractors by cutting electrical wires and removing batteries, according to evidence presented during the trial.

"When Dsta’hyl was arrested, he had four batteries from heavy machinery in the back of his pickup truck, the judge said.

"'There is little dispute concerning the basic facts,' Tammen said, noting that video evidence documenting the incidents was presented during the trial.

"'Chief Dsta’hyl, acting as an enforcement officer for the Likhts’amisyu Clan, participated in the decommissioning of a piece of heavy equipment owned by a CGL subcontractor on Oct. 17, 2021. That action consisted of removing the battery from the equipment, an excavator, thus rendering it inoperable.'

"Witnesses for the defence included other #Likhtsamisyu Chiefs, who described the Wet’suwet’en traditional clan system and its role in governing the traditional territory. Among the Chiefs’ duties is preservation and protection of the traditional territory, or #yintah, Tammen said.

"Tammen also summarized the Wet’suwet’en law of trespass, something described in detail by defence witnesses, saying permission is required to access territory belonging to a house group 'beyond just passing through it.'

[...]

"Criminal contempt penalties can include fines or imprisonment. Sentencing has been set for 9 a.m. on March 6."

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/02/21/Wetsuweten-Law-Cannot-Coexist-BC-Court-Order/

#SLAPPs #IndigenousActivism #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #IndigenousLandDefenders #LandBack #2023PublicOrderAct #DirectAction #ACAB #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #EcoActivists #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SlowMarch

Gantry climber, #CressieGethin 22, found guilty

Court & Prison, Press / February 19, 2024

#JustStopOil supporter and gantry climber, Cressie Gethin, has been found guilty. Cressie took action in July 2022, demanding the UK government immediately halts all licensing and consents for new fossil fuel exploration and extraction.

The trial began on the 5th February at Isleworth Crown Court, with Judge Duncan presiding. The jury has found Cressie guilty by a majority of ten to two. Cressie, 22, a music student from Hereford, will be sentenced on the 3rd of May with two others. They face a possible ten year custodial sentence. [2]

During the trial Cressie was prevented from talking about her reasons for taking action and was denied any legal defence by the judge. The court heard a witness testimony from acclaimed naturalist and television presenter, Chris Packham, who commented that those taking action like Cressie “should be commended for sounding a vital alarm”. He added: “I am attending court to support Cressie Gethin because I don’t think she is getting a fair trial. I think, along with the UN, that the UK’s protest laws and sentencing of protesters are unjust, draconian, and in conflict with our basic human rights.”

Cressie climbed a motorway gantry above the M25 on the 20th July 2022, two days after the governments’ net zero strategy was declared unlawful, and one day after the UK recorded its highest ever temperature of 40.3 degrees celsius, a milestone that scientists previously thought was impossible. 61,000 excess deaths were recorded across Europe as a result of the extreme heat that summer, whilst the UK government continued to licence new oil and gas. [5]

Speaking before the action in 2022, Cressie said:

“I am terrified by the extreme heat in the UK this week, knowing that this will only get worse as we continue to extract and burn more and more fossil fuels. This country has the technology and money to begin a just and rapid transition to renewable energy immediately, but our government refuses to do so. I feel it is my duty as a human being to demand change in a way that cannot be ignored.

Thousands of people will die this week as a result of the extreme temperatures we are experiencing in the UK. We are in this situation because of increasing global temperatures caused by the emissions from burning fossil fuels. Against this backdrop, the UK government plans to open new oil and gas fields. I am dumbfounded by their negligence.

I am thinking of the countless people across the country and abroad who are now experiencing illness and death as a result of the climate crisis. People are angry that our government is continuing down the path of destruction, and we will not simply stand by and let this happen.”

A Just Stop Oil spokesperson commented:

“It would be extremely convenient for everyone if the climate crisis could be removed from our lives by the ruling of a Judge. If we could imprison the wildfires, if we could arrest famines, or if we could legislate against the rising sea waters that will leave parts of Britain submerged, that would be a fantastic outcome – but the reality is that we can’t and rapid decarbonisation is the only way of preventing these horrifying outcomes.

However, the judiciary – like the police – is proving to be an effective arm of the oil and gas industry, by silencing and imprisoning members of the public taking nonviolent action against climate collapse. Future generations will be disgusted by rulings such as this.”

As the world passes tipping points that threaten the breakdown of ordered civilization, world leaders, captured by the interests of oil lobbyists and big business, are failing to protect our communities. British citizens are sick of being led by liars and crooks. Until we stop Tory oil, supporters of Just Stop Oil will continue taking proportionate action to demand necessary change. Sign up for action at juststopoil.org.

https://juststopoil.org/2024/02/19/gantry-climber-cressie-gethin-22-found-guilty/

#SLAPPs #2023PublicOrderAct #DirectAction #ACAB #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #WaterIsLife #BigOilAndGas #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #ClimateActivists
#ClimateJustice #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SlowMarch

#GretaThunberg cleared after unlawful protest arrest

2nd February 2024, 01:49 EST

"Greta Thunberg and four co-defendants have been found not guilty of breaking the law when they refused to follow police instructions to move on during a #ClimateProtest.

"District Judge John Law threw out a public order charge due to 'no evidence' of any offence being committed adding police attempted to impose 'unlawful' conditions.

"The 21-year-old was arrested at a #ClimateCrisis demonstration near the InterContinental Hotel in Mayfair on 17 October.

"The judge said that the conditions imposed on protesters were 'so unclear that it is unlawful'.

"He added that it meant that 'anyone failing to comply were actually committing no offence'."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68180317

#DirectAction #ACAB #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent
#WaterIsLife
#WaterProtectors
#ForestDefenders
#ClimateActivists
#ClimateJustice
#CorporateColonialism
#EcoActivists
#Censorship
#HumanRightsViolations
#Article20
#RightToProtest
#SlowMarch #BigOilAndGas #SLAPPs #2023PublicOrderAct

Inside the last-ditch effort to stop the #MountainValleyPipeline

The project is over budget and behind schedule, with a lot of hard work left to do. Its opponents hope that makes #FossilFuel companies think twice about building the next one.

By Katie Myers
Published Jan 16, 2024

"As day broke over the small mountain town of #EllistonVirginia, one Monday in October, masked figures in thick coats emerged from the woods surrounding a construction site. Three of them approached three excavators and, one by one, locked themselves to the machines, bringing the day’s work to a halt. As they did so, several dozen of their fellow protesters gathered around them, unfurling banners and chanting amid the groaning and beeping of construction equipment.

"They made their way across the field, over patches of bare earth, around sections of rusty pipe meant for burial beneath the mountain. Eventually the metal tubes will form yet another section of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which will soon carry 2 billion cubic feet of #fracked #methane from the #ShaleFields of #WestVirginia to #NorthCarolina each day. Their breath billowed in the crisp air. Beyond them stretched a bright blue sky, and mountains tinged with yellow. The past night’s rain pooled on the muddy and compacted soil beneath their feet.

"Workers in highlighter-yellow vests and hard hats milled around, some looking amused, others frustrated. One or two engaged with the #protesters, only to be told off by an irate site manager. A few miles away at the West Virginia state line, another three dozen or so activists did much the same atop #PetersMountain. One even managed to crawl under an excavator and lock herself in place, despite the cold. The others rallied around, enclosing her in a tight, protective circle.

Some might wonder why they bothered. After all, the project is, by the Mountain Valley Pipeline company’s estimate, 94 percent complete and will be wrapped up before summer. It stalled for several years amid legal fights over various permits, but Senator #JoeManchin, a moderate Democrat from West Virginia, almost single-handedly revived it in 2022 in exchange for his support of key Democratic priorities. Since then, the Biden administration and the Supreme Court have all but assured its completion. With the approximately 303-mile pipeline approaching the final stretch after almost a decade’s work, it might seem hardly worth fighting at this point.

"A large contingent of steadfast opposition begs to differ — and will enthusiastically explain why. The pipeline is six years behind schedule, about half a billion dollars over budget, and, despite promises that it would be done by the end of last year, delayed once again. The remaining construction is over rugged terrain, with hundreds of water crossings left to bridge. The company recently postponed, shortened, and rerouted its planned extension into North Carolina, a proposal long stymied by permitting problems with the main line. And, just last month, #Equitrans, which owns the #pipeline and many others across the country, was said to be considering selling itself. The road to the pipeline’s completion remains rocky, its opponents argue, with many opportunities to make finishing it as difficult as possible.

"'We cannot let them destroy our land and water,' said a young woman named Ericka. Like many interviewed for this story, she gave only her first name out of fear of reprisal from #MountainValleyPipelineLLC, which has begun suing #protesters in a bid to silence them. She had brought her three children to occupy the land that day. 'What are we going to drink? Where are we going to live? People have to come here and stop this.'"

https://grist.org/protest/inside-the-last-ditch-effort-to-stop-the-mountain-valley-pipeline/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

#SilencingDissent #DirectAction #ClimateCatastrophe #NoFracking #WaterIsLife #SLAPPs #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship
#HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #BigOilAndGas

Los sionistas continúan con los bombardeos y la masacre en Gaza con el apoyo incondicional de EEUU y la complicidad de la UE.

Por ello, en Vallekas iremos a la San Silvestre Vallecana con nuestras banderas de Palestina 🇵🇸 para mostrar nuestra solidaridad y exigir el alto al fuego en Gaza y el fin de las agresiones y detenciones en la Cisjordania ocupada.

Según datos de Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, en 82 días, Netanyahu, su cúpula militar y el ejército de Israel han asesinado a 29.124 palestinos, entre ellos 11.422 niñas y niños, 226 sanitarios y 101 periodistas.

Cerca de dos millones de personas han sido obligadas forzosamente a huir de sus hogares por los bombardeos, que han destruido 242.800 viviendas, 80 instalaciones sanitarias (y 55 ambulancias), 305 centros escolares y universidades, 1.541 instalaciones industriales (empresas de telecomunicaciones, distribuidoras eléctricas, potabilizadoras, medios de comunicación, negocios, farmacias y supermercados).

La Asamblea “Vallekas con Palestina” se suma a las reclamaciones de un alto al fuego que otorgue paz y justicia para las niñas y niños y la población civil de Palestina y la solicitud para que el gobierno español corte relaciones con el gobierno Israelí ante tal Genocidio.

¡Desde el río hasta el mar, Palestina vencerá! ¡Desde Vallekas a Palestina, toda nuestra fuerza y cariño al pueblo palestino!

#PalestinaResiste #Palestina #Apoyo #Solidaridad #SanSilvestreVallecana #SanSilvestre2023 #DerechosHumanos #Conflicto #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Israel #Bombardeos #Opresión #Genocidio #Colonización #Sionismo #Apartheid #Netanyahu #VallekasconPalestina #PuentedeVallecas #Vallecas #Vallekas #FreePalestine #StopGenocideInGaza #StopBombingGaza #CPI #HumanRightsViolations #NoEnNuestroNombre #España #Europa

Demonstrators Decry #SLAPP Lawsuits Targeting Movement Against #MountainValleyPipeline

via @igd December 21, 2023

"Report on recent protest in Abingdon, Virginia against SLAPP lawsuits targeting the movement fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP).

"Mountain Valley Pipeline is suing dozens of pipeline opponents in multiple jurisdictions for millions of dollars as part of a campaign of ongoing repression. Penn Stuart, the law firm behind the injunctions currently being levied against pipeline fighters in Virginia, and their Lawyer Wade Massie are hired by EQT Midstream, the largest partner in the MVP. Today, people had an office party at the Penn Stuart offices in Abingdon, VA, causing a ruckus."

Read more:
https://itsgoingdown.org/demonstrators-decry-slapp-lawsuits-mvp/

#SLAPPs #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #BigOilAndGas

Don’t Stop: Continuing the Fight against #CopCity

Six More Months in the Movement to Defend the Forest
2023-12-12 via #CrimeThinc

"Escalating Repression: #RICO and the Furtherance of the Conspiracy

"With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the 'tactics of organized criminals' language Governor Kemp used on July 2 was not just boilerplate copy drafted by an intern, nor was the August 2 press conference simply propaganda to assure backers that the state could still protect their investments. These phrases and statements were shaping operations, carefully crafted interventions designed to position the government for their next operation: the blanket criminalization of the entire movement.

"On August 29, the Attorney General of #Georgia, Christopher M. Carr, filed an indictment with the Fulton County Superior Court, bringing charges against 61 people under Georgia’s version of the Rackeeter-Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act O.C.G.A. § 16-14-4. The indictment became public on September 5. The document, which is over 100 pages long and very poorly written, claims that the 'conspiracy' (which it names 'Defend the Atlanta Forest') was 'founded' on May 25, 2020—the day that #MinneapolisPolice officers murdered #GeorgeFloyd, precipitating a nationwide #uprising.

"This was a serious escalation. It did not catch everyone by surprise: the #AtlantaSolidarityFund has been braced for such charges since February. The authorities and their extreme-right proxies had been demanding a full-scale crackdown on the movement for over a year, spreading a conspiracy theory that the movement was a mafia controlled by a shadowy and well-connected group (a narrative some activists also reproduced, apparently with no sense of irony). According to one version of this conspiracy theory, circulated by far-right trolls, the Network for Stronger Communities (a Georgia-based nonprofit organization) operates a number of financial enterprises, including the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, that coordinate acts of terrorism in order to accumulate wealth and influence. Of the 61 accused, three were members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. The 42 people already facing #DomesticTerrorism charges were also indicted, as well as a number of other people whose connection to the movement was unclear. The indictment alleged that some people had committed acts in 'overt furtherance of the conspiracy' such as buying #GlueSticks for #SignMaking. [UK is using similar tactics, arresting people for just having #Superglue or #BikeLocks in their possession.]

"The RICO indictment was not a legal procedure but a political act. It was not a judicial intervention to suppress criminal activity but a government measure to crush what the text describes as '#anarchism,' '#collectivism,' '#SocialSolidarity,' '#MutualAid.”

"It is not simply 61 people who are on trial. By dating the case to the murder of George Floyd, the prosecution showed that their real target was the entire population of millions that participated in the consequent revolt. This is not an unusual court case, but a new chapter in the fight between those who seek to preserve the hierarchies of a structurally white supremacist society and those fighting to destroy it root and branch. The indictment does not present a list of crimes. It describes the contours and values of a rival society emerging within the movement to stop Cop City, aspiring to reinvent the world according to a different logic.

"The Fulton County Judge assigned to the RICO case immediately recused himself. Until then, judges had not recused themselves from cases related to the movement even when they possessed obvious ties to the Atlanta Police Foundation."

Full article:
https://crimethinc.com/2023/12/12/dont-stop-continuing-the-fight-against-cop-city-six-more-months-in-the-movement-to-defend-the-forest

#JusticeForTort #StopCopCity #ACAB #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SLAPPs

#Activist, 97, among dozens arrested in #Australia #climate protest

26 November 2023

Sydney, Australia, Nov 26 (EFE).- "Dozens of protesters, including a 97-year-old man, were arrested on Sunday during a #ClimateChange protest off Australia’s east coast that disrupted operations at the country’s biggest coal export port.

"#ClimateActivist group #RisingTide had organized the protest to block the traffic of coal cargo ships in the port of Newcastle since Saturday.

"The group said on its Twitter account that at least 59 people have been arrested so far.

"Since Saturday, groups of 50 to 60 protesters have been taking turns in rostered two-hour shifts getting on canoes and inflatable boats and preventing ships from leaving the port.

"Among the protesters who went out to sea was Alan Stuart, a 97-year-old religious pastor.

"Stuart said he was doing it for his grandchildren and future generations after being pulled out of his boat by the police.

"'I am doing this for my grandchildren and future generations because I don’t want to leave them a world full of increasingly severe and frequent #ClimateDisasters,' he said. 'I am so sorry that they will have to suffer the consequences of our inaction. So, I think it is my duty to do what I can and to stand up for what I know is right.'

"Rising Tide claims that the protest prevented more than half a million tonnes of coal from leaving the Newcastle port by the time the demonstration ended.

"Protesters demand that the Australian government stop all new projects that involve the use of fossil energy and confront the #ClimateCrisis more decisively.

"The climate crisis is one of the big issues of political debate in Australia, a country exposed to the effects of #droughts and #ExtremeTemperatures.

"Australia is the world’s second largest exporter of thermal coal and the largest exporter of cooking coal."

https://efe.com/en/other-news/2023-11-26/activist-97-among-dozens-arrested-in-australia-climate-protest/

#DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #BigOilAndGas #BigCoal

Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march

Stephen Gingell, 57, thought to be first to receive prison sentence under new Public Order Act

by Damien Gayle
Fri 15 Dec 2023

"A #ClimateActivist has been jailed for six months after pleading guilty to taking part in a peaceful #SlowMarch protest on a London road.

"The sentence handed to Stephen Gingell, 57, is thought to be the first jailing under a new law that critics say makes anyone walking in a road liable for prosecution for 'interference with key national infrastructure'.

"#Section7 of the #PublicOrderAct2023 bans any act that prevents newspaper printing presses, power plants, #oil and #gas extraction or distribution sites, #harbours, #airports, #railways or #roads 'from being used or operated to any extent', with a potential penalty of 12 months in jail.

"Gingell, a father of three from #Manchester, was one of about 40 supporters of #JustStopOil who spent about 30 minutes marching on #HollowayRoad in north #London at about 4pm on 12 November, the climate campaign group said.

"He pleaded guilty to breach of section 7 at a hearing that same month at Wimbledon magistrates court. On Thursday, his case was transferred to Manchester magistrates court, where he was sentenced to six months.

"Just Stop Oil has been campaigning since 2022 for the UK government to stop all new fossil fuel production. The campaign’s 'guerrilla tactics' were cited by the Home Office when it introduced the Public Order Act’s tough new #AntiProtest measures to parliament.

"Police began using section 7 to tackle Just Stop Oil’s protests at the end of October, arresting 60 people taking part in a march in Parliament Square. In a campaign of slow march protests carried out by the group between then and 4 December, 470 of the group’s supporters were arrested 630 times, with about half of those arrests under the new law.

"A spokesperson for the campaign said: 'Section 7 of the Public Order Act 2023, a law drafted by the #FossilFuel lobby, was introduced in April by Priti Patel, and covers ‘interference with the use or operation of key national infrastructure’. It seems this government has now made walking down the road, walking on the public highway an illegal act that is worthy of imprisonment.

"'How many fathers will be imprisoned before those planning to kill us are stopped? New oil and gas will see millions upon millions lose their homes, livelihoods and lives. Protected by the government, by failed politicians, by the police, those committing genocide continue to walk free, those protesting the killings are banged up. Whose side are you on?'

"The human rights organisation Liberty criticised Gingell’s sentencing. Katy Watts, a lawyer at Liberty, said: “It is shocking to see such harsh sentences handed down to protesters. This is yet another unnecessary and draconian law introduced by a government that is hell-bent on discouraging people from standing up for what they believe in. It is a clear attempt to silence people and for the government to hide from all accountability.

"Protest is a fundamental right, not a gift from the state. Government should be protecting our right to protest, not criminalising it.'"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/15/just-stop-oil-activist-is-first-to-be-jailed-under-new-uk-protest-law?share=jetpack-whatsapp

#BigOilAndGas #WaterProtectors #DirectAction #CriminalizingDissent #DefendTheForest #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #ACAB #Fascism #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #AbolishTheMonarchy #RightToProtest

Más de 14.000 palestinos asesinados, entre ellos 9.000 niños y un gran número de víctimas civiles aún sin localizar bajo los escombros.
El secretario general de la ONU, António Guterres afirmó ayer ante el Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas, que la cantidad de infancias asesinadas "en el último mes" en Gaza supera a las de cualquier conflicto que se ha registrado durante su mandato.

Civiles secuestrados por las fuerzas de ocupación israelíes en la Cisjordania ocupada, muchos de ellos torturados en cárceles, los cadáveres de las víctimas están siendo retenidos para castigar a familias palestinas, bebés prematuros asesinados y en estado de putrefacción tras el asedio de las fuerzas militares israelíes a los hospitales de Gaza.

Israel NO es una democracia.
Una democracia no coloniza.
Una democracia no detiene y encarcela a niñas y niños.
Una democracia no lleva a cabo un apartheid o limpieza étnica.
No construye muros para encerrar a las palestinas y palestinos.
No asesina y tortura bajo un asedio constante de ataques indiscriminados.

Por todos estos motivos, las AFAS y AMPAS por la Paz de Madrid y colectivos como la Plataforma por la Escuela Pública de Vallecas, están realizando una serie de actividades en los centros escolares de la capital, como muestra de apoyo al pueblo palestino, reclamando un alto al fuego que otorgue paz y justicia para las niñas y niños y la población civil de Palestina. A estos actos, se suman las charlas, asambleas y manifestaciones que la Asamblea “Vallekas con Palestina” está coordinando en nuestro barrio.

¡Desde el río hasta el mar, Palestina vencerá! ¡Desde Vallekas a Palestina, toda nuestra fuerza y cariño al pueblo palestino! 🇵🇸

#Palestina #Apoyo #Solidaridad #DerechosHumanos #Conflicto #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Israel #Bombardeos #Opresión #Genocidio #Colonización #Sionismo #Apartheid #Netanyahu #VallekasconPalestina #PuentedeVallecas #Vallecas #Vallekas #FreePalastine #StopGenocideInGaza #StopBombingGaza #CPI #HumanRightsViolations #NoEnNuestroNombre #España #Europa

4.000 niños son 10 colegios.
4.000 niños son 363 equipos de fútbol.
4.000 niños son 27 teatros infantiles llenos.
4.000 niños son todos los niños de Soria menores de once años.
4.000 niños es la población entera de Ajalvir.
4.000 niños es la población entera de Robledo de Chavela.
4.000 niños son Aldea del Fresno y Buitrago del Lozoya juntos.
4.000 niños es una línea recta de cadáveres pequeñitos desde Atocha hasta Nuevos Ministerios.

No es posible llegar a concebir lo que significa la muerte de un solo hijo. El dolor y la sensación de injusticia porque una vida por vivir sea arrancada de nuestros brazos. El dolor por la sonrisa infinita apagada. El recuerdo constante de unos ojos que no volverán a mirar un mundo que le pertenecía y le esperaba nuevo, a estrenar.

Tenemos ahora, no la idea real del dolor de las familias palestinas que ven morir niñas y niños uno tras otro, que cargan desesperados hijos inertes tratando de obrar quién sabe qué milagro. Lo que tenemos es un dolor constante en el corazón porque somos madres y padres. Dolor cuando besamos a nuestros hijos dormidos o cuando nos despedimos de ellos en el cole. 4.000 dolores pequeñitos y absolutos.

No puede ser. No debe ser. Y sobre todo, tiene que dejar de ser.
Los niños nunca son culpables.
Los niños siempre son inocentes.

No hay derecho, ni internacional ni ningún derecho, que ampare el asesinato de niños para lograr un fin. No hay fines mayores que preservar la vida de nuestras hijas e hijos.
Y los niños asesinados en Gaza son también nuestros. Porque los niños son de toda la humanidad. Porque todos los seres humanos tenemos la obligación de socorrer a la infancia, de ser las madres y los padres si las madres y los padres faltan.

No al genocidio en Gaza. No al asesinato de niños y niñas. No al asesinato de inocentes. Ni en Gaza, ni en ningún sitio. Ni ahora ni nunca.

Condenamos, y no parece descabellado condenar, la muerte como forma de hacer política. Matar no es humano porque matar es acabar con vidas humanas. Condenamos cualquier asesinato de personas inocentes y condenamos cualquier asesinato que se excuse tras la culpa. La muerte no puede ser una herramienta dentro de un estado de derecho. Ni en Israel ni en ninguna parte del mundo.

Pedimos, y no parece tanto pedir, respeto a los derechos humanos.

Las familias de Madrid mandamos nuestro amor a las más de 4.000 familias que han perdido a sus hijos en este ataque inhumano (porque no es humano matar niños). Nos unimos a su dolor, nos unimos a su sensación de injusticia infinita y les decimos: no en nuestro nombre. Nunca ese dolor en nuestro nombre. Estamos y estaremos con vosotras.

Alto el fuego ya. Alto el fuego siempre.

Más de 40 AFAS y AMPAS de los colegios de Madrid convocan una concentración este viernes 10 de Noviembre a la salida de los colegios como muestra de apoyo al pueblo Palestino ante la barbarie y el asesinato de más de 4.000 niñas y niños gazaties.

#NoEnNuestroNombre #España #Europa #Palestina #Apoyo #Solidaridad #DerechosHumanos #Conflicto #Palestina #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Israel #Bombardeos #Opresión #Genocidio #Colonización #Sionismo #Apartheid #Netanyahu #VallekasconPalestina #PuentedeVallecas #Vallecas #Vallekas #FreePalastine #StopGenocideInGaza #StopBombingGaza #CPI #HumanRightsViolations

We don't need no stinking Magna Carta!

A French publisher has been arrested on terror charges in London after being questioned by UK police about participating in anti-government protests in France.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/18/french-publisher-arrested-london-counter-terrorism-police-ernest-moret

#StinkingMagnaCarta #MagnaCarta

#ToryDictatorship #DemocracyNotAutocracy #PoliceState #ErnestMoret #protests #France #Orwellian #ThoughtPolice #1984 #oppression #repression #authoritarian #HumanRights #HumanRightsViolations #MetPolice