Argentina and China sign key agreements on cooperation and trade and other stories
Today we look at the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Argentina and China, the arrest of journalist Fahad Shah in Kashmir, and more
UN Security Council holds session on Ukraine, Poland pledges arms and other stories
Today we look at the UN Security Council special session on Ukraine, a major oil spill spreading to Ecuador’s Amazon region, and more
US Political prisoner Leonard Peltier tests positive for COVID-19
Supporters are demanding hospitalization and clemency for one of the longest-serving US political prisoners following his COVID-19 diagnosis
Palestinians protest forestation plan amid violent Israeli repression and other stories
Today we look at protests by Bedouin Palestinians against Israeli encroachment in the Negev, a hunger strike at the Rikers Island jail complex in protest of inhuman conditions, and more
Indian activist Gautam Navlakha shifted to high-security barrack
The health of the 70-year-old activist has deteriorated following the move. Prison authorities are now denying the family and his lawyer phone calls with him on the pretext that inmates can now be met in jail physically
Thousands protest wage cuts and neoliberal reforms in Uruguay and other stories
Today we look at the general strike against wage cuts in Uruguay, the ITJP report on the custodial torture of Tamil people in Sri Lanka, and more
Activists demand the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent 40 years in prison for a crime he did not commit and supporters fear for his rapidly deteriorating health
Greek political prisoner Dimitris Koufodinas struggles for his life
Koufodinas has been on a hunger strike for 56 days protesting the conditions of his incarceration after he was irregularly transferred to a max-security prison, which some believe was at the behest of the US embassy
Anti-imperialists around the world extend solidarity for Assange
Solidarity actions will be taken around the world by anti-imperialist groups to demand an “end to the inhuman conditions” on International Human Rights Day
Chileans demand release of political prisoners detained in the uprising
Hundreds of young people arrested during the social uprising of October 2019 remain in preventive detention
Widespread condemnation of Israeli raids and arrests of Palestinian leaders, activists
Organizations have called for the swift and unconditional release of all the Palestinian leaders and activists arrested in the late night raids on Monday, while also demanding freedom for all Palestinian political prisoners and administrative detainees
Chilean security forces attack Mapuche political prisoners and their family members
The Mapuche political prisoners, who have been on a hunger strike for months, were violently beaten, forced to end the strike and transferred to a hospital by the Chilean Gendarmerie officials
- First commercial flight in last six years takes off from Yemen’s Sanaa airport
- Cuba describes easing of US sanctions as “a limited step in the right direction”
- Communists demand ouster of US military and NATO from Turkey
- Women in Croatia say enough to conservative obstruction of right to abortion
- Belgian workers demand scrapping of Wage Margin Act of 1996
