Political Prisoners
LeGrand Jones in Court Tacoma Wednesday 1:30PM
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 22:38.LeGrand Jones, a National Lawyer's Guild attorney from Olympia, was arrested for refusing an illegal demand by police to see his ID at the Port of Tacoma recently. The police have been using demands for ID as one of several harassment tactics towards anti-war demonstrators at the port. LeGrand will use his hearing tomorrow to creatively demonstrate against these tactics by police. Supporters and press are advised to attend.
What: LeGrand's Arraignment
Where: Tacoma Pierce County Courthouse, Tacoma Municipal Building
When: 1:30 pm, Wednesday, August 6th
Media Contact: Wes Hamilton 360-791-7484
Spirit of Freedom (August 2008)
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 08/03/2008 - 04:16.Produced by
EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK
"The whole experience has been tough, but all the kind and strengthening
words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much easier!"
(Former Swedish Animal Rights Prisoner)
Welcome to the August 2008 edition of Spirit of Freedom. As people will
soon see, ELP's prisoner lists have grown yet again. If we exclude the Geek
anarchist, Vaggelis Botzatzis, and the two Americans Richard Sills and
Michael Sykes (all of whom are listed by ELP as 'Other Prisoners'), there
are now 40 listed animal & earth liberation prisoners in Europe & America.
There are also a number of non-listed prisoners, who are not listed either read more »
Five wounded in Yemen protest
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 21:50.
SANAA (AFP) — Five people, including a young boy, were wounded in southern Yemen on Tuesday when police fired on demonstrators demanding the release of more than 80 people arrested during previous protests, witnesses said.
Dozens of demonstrators were also detained during the new protest, in Radfan in southern Lahij province, the witnesses told AFP.
Police fired live bullets and tear gas to disperse the march, they said. read more »
US wavered over S. Korean executions
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 22:45.
By CHARLES J. HANLEY and JAE-SOON CHANG, Associated Press Jul 6, 2008
SEOUL, South Korea - The American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it "would be permitted" to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining approaching enemy forces. read more »
Support the Eco Prisoners (July 2008)
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 22:33.Spirit of Freedom (July 2008)
Produced by EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK
"The whole experience has been tough, but all the kind and strengthening
words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much easier!" (Former
Swedish Animal Rights Prisoner)
Welcome to the July 2008 edition of Spirit of Freedom. As a number of ELP
supporters will be aware, ELP has traditionally dedicated our newsletters to
fallen friends, who have either been killed or seriously injured as a result
of their protest activities. For the past few months ELP hasn't carried any
dedication and we hoped that we would not have to dedicate another read more »
Leonard Peltier Statement for the 2008 Oglala Commemoration
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 23:23.
From: contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info June 26, 2008
Greetings my relatives,
I say relatives because you are all my family. I am honored, greatly honored today that you would listen to my words and come together in this way so that our future generations' will not forget what happened here in this land.
You can't imagine how much I miss walking on the bare earth. Or brushing against a tree branch or hearing birds in the morning or seeing an antelope or deer cross my path. I have been here in federal prison for 32 years; if you could imagine being in your own read more »
Afghan official: 870 inmates escaped from prison
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 06/14/2008 - 21:30.
By NOOR KHAN and JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press June 14, 2008
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - U.S. and NATO troops aided Afghan forces with reconnaissance in a hunt Saturday for 870 inmates who escaped prison after a sophisticated Taliban assault that even NATO conceded was a success for the militants. read more »
IMPACT: Thousands killed by US's Korean ally
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 05/18/2008 - 20:47.DAEJEON, South Korea - Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950. read more »
By CHARLES J. HANLEY and JAE-SOON CHANG Associated Press May 18, 2008
Support the Eco-Prisoners (May 2008)
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 06:21.Spirit of Freedom
(May 2008)
Produced by
EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK
"The whole experience has been tough, but all the kind and strengthening
words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much easier!" (Former
Swedish Animal Rights Prisoner)
Welcome to the May 2008 edition of Spirit of Freedom. As we go to print we
await the sentencing of American vegan eco-activist, Eric McDavid, who has
been convicted of thought crimes (he has been convicted of conspiring to
carry out ELF actions, although at the time of his arrest no crimes had
actually been committed). Eric's sentencing has been put back on numerous
occasions, so we wouldn't like to say when the sentencing might actually read more »
China sentences 30 for alleged involvement in Tibet riots
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 14:02.
By TINI TRAN, Associated Press April 29, 2008
BEIJING - A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced 30 people, including six monks, to jail terms ranging from three years to life in prison for their alleged roles in deadly riots in the Tibetan capital last month, state media reported.
The Intermediate People's Court of Lhasa announced the sentences at an open session, state media reported. The trial was the first since the mid-March riots. read more »
Gloria La Riva at Media Island
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 06:03.03/21/2008 - 18:00
03/21/2008 - 22:00
Etc/GMT
Start: Mar 21 2008 - 6:00pm
On March 21, Olympia gets the opportunity to see Gloria La Riva. She is the coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five and presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She will speak at Media Island (816 Adams St., across from the downtown Timberland library) on the current economic and political situation in Cuba and to update the community of the struggle to Free the Cuban Five, serving unjust sentences in U.S. prisons. read more »
VIDEO: Mike Africa Jr. interview about the MOVE 9 Parole Hearings
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 21:14.From MOVE 9 Parole 2008
by Hans Bennett Abu-Jamal-News.com
Support the Eco-Prisoners - March 2008
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 04:14. 
Spirit of Freedom (March 2008)
Produced by
EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK
"The whole experience has been tough, but all the kind and strengthening words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much easier!"
(Former Swedish Animal Rights Prisoner)
Welcome to the March 2008 edition of Spirit of Freedom. First off in this
Editorial ELP would like to apologise about an error we have made in our
prisoner listing. We wrote that the American Eco-Defence prisoner Grant
Barnes spray-painted the letters ELF onto one of the vehicles he set fire read more »
Jeffrey "Free" Luers Sentence Reduced to 10 Years
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 20:44.
by Civil Rights Outreach Committee February 28, 2008
(Eugene, OR)- This morning at 9:00am in Lane County Circuit Court the re-sentencing hearing for Jeffrey Luers took place in front of Judge Billings. This followed an Oregon court of appeals ruling in February 2007 that Luers original sentence of 22 years 8 months by Judge Lyle Velure was illegal, and the appeals court remanded the case back to Lane County Circuit Court for re-sentencing. Following the appeals court decision, negotiations have resulted in the decision today to reduce Luers sentence to 10 years, bringing his release date to late December 2009. read more »
Spirit of Freedom (February 2008)
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 02/02/2008 - 22:36.Produced by
EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK
"The whole experience has been tough, but all the kind and strengthening
words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much easier!"
(Former Swedish Animal Rights Prisoner)
Welcome to the February 2008 edition of Spirit of Freedom. As we enter
February so we await three major events. First off, Jeff 'Free' Luers is read more »
After 95 days of hunger strike, Mapuche political prisoner is hospitalized
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 08:28.indymedia.org 20 Jan 2008
In an operation that began at 5:00 today [January 15], using a helicopter and coordinated by the police, Patricia Troncoso Robles, a political prisoner in hunger strike since October 10th 2007, is being transferred to a hospital. Patricia, condemned by the Antiterrorist Law, has spent five years in prison and will spend other five to serve her 10-year term, due to the irregular judgment of the case "Poluco Pidenco". read more »
POLITICAL PRISONER - Eve Tatez jailed for peaceful protest
Submitted by pirate on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 05:12.On Monday November 5th 2007, a 76 year old retired school teacher reported to DC Superior Court to begin serving a 7 day jail sentence.
Police Brutality in "Democratic" Chile
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 22:20. Mapuche Student Shot Dead; Political Prisoner Slowly Dying From Hunger Strike
13th January 2008
A peaceful protest by the Mapuche met a bloody end on 3rd January when police opened fire into the crowd, killing 22-year-old university student Matias Catrileo Quezada. The young Mapuche man was shot in the back upon retreating, when Chilean police began firing indiscriminately into the crowd with machine guns. Among the protestors were elderly civilians and children, and it was a miracle that nobody else was killed.
For years the Chilean judicial system has refused to deliver justice and
return the indigenous land illegally taken by the estate Santa Margarita, read more »
80 arrested in Guantanamo protest at Supreme Court
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 06:10.
USA Today Jan 11, 2008
Police arrested 80 protesters outside the U.S. Supreme Court today during a protest marking the sixth anniversary of the first terror suspects imprisoned at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay. read more »
Spirit of Freedom (January 2008)
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 01/02/2008 - 22:03.Produced by
EARTH LIBERATION PRISONERS SUPPORT NETWORK
"The whole experience has been tough, but all the kind and strengthening
words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much easier!"
(Former Swedish Animal Rights Prisoner)
Welcome to the January 2008 edition of Spirit of Freedom. First off I would
like to apologise for the lack of any publication of Spirit of Freedom over
the past few months. Things have been rather busy recently. However that's no excuse and British ELPs New Years resolution is to get back into
producing regular prisoner listings again. And thinking of our prisoner
lists. ELP always tries to make our lists as up to date and accurate as read more »
Iran students break campus gate in protest
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 12/09/2007 - 21:42.
by Stuart Williams Sun Dec 9, 2007
TEHRAN (AFP) - Hundreds of Iranian students held a new protest at Tehran University on Sunday, damaging the main gate to allow outsiders into the campus and denouncing read more »
Please support Gary Tyler
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/29/2007 - 01:07.Dear Gary Tyler supporter,
Below is an action alert recently issued by Amnesty International. Please
distribute this widely.
The Free Gary Tyler Committee
----------------------
Gary Tyler, a 49-year-old African American has spent more than 33 years in
prison in Louisiana after being convicted of murder in the shooting of a
white schoolboy during a racially charged incident in 1974. Aged 16 at the
time, Gary Tyler has consistently maintained his innocence of the murder
and federal reviewing courts have declared his trial fundamentally unfair.
Earlier this year, a petition was filed with the Louisiana Pardon Board
requesting that Gary Tyler's life sentence be commuted to a defined number
of years so that the outgoing state governor can authorize his release read more »
US plans case against AP photographer
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 21:46. By BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press Nov. 19, 2007
NEW YORK - The U.S. military plans to seek a criminal case in an Iraqi court against an award-winning Associated Press photographer but is refusing to disclose what evidence or accusations would be presented.An AP attorney on Monday strongly protested the decision, calling the U.S. military plans a "sham of due process." The journalist, Bilal Hussein, has already been imprisoned without charges for more than 19 months. read more »
Ukraine implicated in CIA renditions
Submitted by pirate on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 01:03.By JAN SLIVA, Associated Press Nov. 14, 2007
STRASBOURG, France - An EU investigator said Wednesday he has evidence to suggest that a Ukrainian airstrip was used by CIA-operated planes involved in the U.S. extraordinary rendition program.
Giovanni Fava said he was also looking into possible CIA use of a military facility at a Ukrainian base. Fava, an Italian member of the European Parliament, drafted a report last year identifying more than 1,000 secret CIA flights with stopovers on European territory since 2001. He identified several of them as being used to transfer terror suspects. read more »
End of the game: Indigenous Peoples' bringing down Apartheid wall
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 20:28.
by Brenda Norrell
Saturday, November 10, 2007 read more »
Jailed Guantanamo journalist gains support
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 11/02/2007 - 01:19.
By BEN FOX, Associated Press Nov 1, 2007
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A campaign to free a journalist imprisoned at Guantanamo gained support Thursday from the first Muslim member of Congress, who urged authorities to prosecute or release him after more than five years without charges. read more »
Students in Iran Protest Sentences for 3 Activists
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 22:09.TEHRAN, Oct. 22 — Students at one of the most politically active universities in Tehran demonstrated Monday amid high security to protest jail terms for three student activists, an Iranian student news agency reported.
Students from different universities gathered at Amir Kabir University to protest sentences of up to three years issued last week for the activists, Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghassaban, the student news agency, ISNA, reported.
Authorities accused the three, all from Amir Kabir University, of publishing articles insulting to Islam in student publications. The students denied the charges and said their publications had been forged to frame them. read more »
Chevron Props Up Myanmar’s Government
Submitted by truthteller on Sat, 10/06/2007 - 06:29.Late September Buddhist monks in Myanmar, formerly called Burma, led a protest march against the military-controlled government (the Junta). They marched past Nobel Prize winner, Suu Kyi, who was democratically elected as the leader of Myanmar in 1990, but never allowed to assume office. The Junta attacked the monks and other protestors. The Myanmar government claims only ten people were killed, but no one knows how many were really killed. read more »
Cuban dissidents denounce break-up of protest
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 19:44.Fri Sep 28, 2007 HAVANA (AFP) - Cuban dissident leaders denounced Friday the police detention of 47 activists attempting to hold a street protest in Havana on behalf of political prisoners.
But prominent dissident Martha Beatriz Roque told AFP the government had detained and then released the activists to "minimize the international political cost" of its actions. read more »
Hamas women's protest in West Bank blocked
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 09/23/2007 - 21:05.RAMALLAH (AFP) - Palestinian police blocked a West Bank protest march on Saturday by some 200 women supporters of Hamas angry at the detention of scores of Islamists since the movement's June takeover of Gaza. read more »
Myanmar human rights defender jailed
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 07/25/2007 - 20:11.
By GRANT PECK, Associated Press Writer July 25, 2007
BANGKOK, Thailand - A Myanmar human rights defender beaten by a pro-government mob was sentenced to eight years in prison for inciting unrest, activists said Wednesday. read more »
Reporter stitches up mouth to protest jailing
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 20:22.July 23, 2007 AP
BAKU, Azerbaijan - An Azerbaijani journalist has gone on a hunger strike to protest his prison sentence and stitched up his mouth to strengthen his demand, a media freedom activist said Monday.
Faramaz Allahverdiyev, a reporter from the opposition Nota Bene newspaper, sewed up his mouth when he went on a hunger strike last week, said Emin Huseynov, who heads the Institute for Freedom and Security of Reporters.
Huseynov told The Associated Press that he learned about Allahverdiyev’s move from other prisoners. read more »
Guantanamo hunger strikers stay defiant
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 01:05.
By BEN FOX, Associated Press Fri Jul 20, 2007
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Twice a day at the U.S. military prison here, Abdul Rahman Shalabi and Zaid Salim Zuhair Ahmed are strapped down in padded restraint chairs and flexible yellow tubes are inserted through their noses and throats. Milky nutritional supplements, mixed with water and olive oil to add calories and ease constipation, pour into their stomachs. read more »
from Supporters of Nathan and Joyanna...
Submitted by pirate on Thu, 07/12/2007 - 18:05.From: solidaritywithsadieandexile@gmail.com
Warm Greetings, read more »
Jamil Al-Amin in isolation and refuses to eat
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 20:04.
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT IMAM JAMIL AL-AMIN
(the former H. RAP BROWN)
News bulletin: Wednesday June 11, 2007 read more »
Eric McDavid Update - Fundraising, Website Updated, and More
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 06/29/2007 - 01:13.From: sacprisonersupport@riseup.net
Dear friends and supporters,
Thanks to everyone who took advantage of the matching
funds! We have already reached the $600 mark, which
means that matching funds are no longer available.
However, please do not let that keep you from donating!
We still have quite a way to go before we reach our goal
of $15,000, which is the minimum we need to cover Eric's
current remaining legal expenses. read more »
Joint Statement from the San Francisco 8
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 18:32.
May 20, 2007 Break the Chains
Greetings, Friends & Comrades:
I am sending you the joint statement from the San Francisco 8 which has been reviewed and agreed upon for publication and distribution. We/I would appreciate your responses and would like to open this for discussion within our community. Please check the various mentioned websites for more information.
Revolutionary love & unity,
Jalil Muntaqim read more »
Abu-Jamal lawyers argue trial was biased
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 01:02.
By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press
May 17, 2007
PHILADELPHIA - Lawyers for former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal argued to an appeals court Thursday that racism by a judge and prosecutors corrupted the 1982 trial at which he was condemned for killing a white police officer. read more »
