Los palestinos son pisoteados por las pesadas botas de un régimen que, si bien puede parecer nuevo, es de hecho tan brutal, cruel y racista como lo fue cualquier gobierno sionista.
ICA Farmville ya tiene fama de hacinamiento y saneamiento deficiente. El año pasado, la prisión privada de ICE se vio afectada por un brote de paperas, una enfermedad clásica de hacinamiento y saneamiento deficiente.
Amidst a COVID-19 outbreak, around 100 detained migrants at a private, for-profit prison in Farmville, VA, have collectively gone on hunger strike, demanding their release on medical and humane grounds. That is according to Sanctuary DMV, a volunteer organization helping immigrants in the Washington, D.C. area. Phone lines to the dorms have been
“How unfair it is for me to have food when millions of people, including pregnant women and children, don’t have any food because of corrupt people in my complicit media hiding what’s happening.” — Hunger striker Pamela Bennett
SAN FRANCISCO -- In Yemen, 18 million civilians are now at the brink of starvation, including 5
The strike was called to protest against solitary confinement and detention without trial.
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners ended a 40-day hunger strike today initially launched over conditions in Israeli jails, the Israel Prison Service and a Palestinian official said.
About 1,100 inmates had initially taken part in one of the largest such hunger strikes, which began on
Many South Africans are participating in campaigns to support Palestinian hunger strikers by initiating the #DignityStrikeSA hashtag on social media.
One of South Africa’s two vice presidents is going on a 24-hour hunger strike today in solidarity with the 1,600 Palestinian prisoners protesting their conditions in Israeli jails. Cyril Ramaphosa - explained the director of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, Nishan Balton - is the politician in South Africa most supportive of the prisoners’
Palestinians who are facing degrading treatment in Israeli prisons are continuing a hunger strike they began in April, with Israeli authorities subjecting the strikers to a range of retaliatory punishments. However, support for the strikers is growing internationally.
ISRAEL -- Over 1,500 Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli prisons announced the beginning of a massive hunger strike on “Palestinian Prisoners’ Day,” an annual April event held in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners. The strike was inspired by the bleak conditions that prisoners face inside the prisons, as they have few other
“When I requested medical care, sometimes no one would reply. I was not given medical care until ICE later approved it. When I reached out for medical help, I was placed in solitary confinement.”
Published in partnership with Shadowproof. Georgia immigrant detention centers frequently put asylum seekers and other migrants into solitary confinement as punishment for going on hunger
