United Nations investigators said they have found evidence of systematic torture by Myanmar security forces and identified some of the most senior perpetrators. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/12/asia-pacific/politics/myanmar-systematic-torture-un-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #un #myanmar #humanrights #torture #rape
Prefacing a difficult-to-read report on the testimony of men now freed from CECOT, ProPublica states,
"We interviewed nine men for this story. They are bewildered, frightened, angry. Some said their feelings about what happened were still so raw they had trouble finding words to describe them. All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment."
#Trump#StephenMiller #ElSalvador#Venezuela #immigrants #torture
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https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump
bhaugen
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"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."
~ Matt Labash
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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"There are lines you cannot cross as a human being, and moving one’s own personal Overton Window over far enough to accommodate shackling people and making them eat like dogs, or stay in a cell with a toilet covered in shit, is not something that will end well for those around you."
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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Tim Miller talks with Mehdi Hasan about his brave decision to face the spittle-spewing screaming meemies of the fascist right in a Jubilee debate — and about how racist hostility to black and brown immigrants (like Hasan himself) is the energizing center of the fascist right.
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/mehdi-hasan-jubilee-debate-left-me
"I think victims, in many cases (not the ones where they die from neglect), can recover from horrific treatment like this, but I don’t think doing it is something a person can come back from."
Robyn Pennacchia
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-has-entered-its-abu-ghraib-era
"There are lines you cannot cross as a human being, and moving one’s own personal Overton Window over far enough to accommodate shackling people and making them eat like dogs, or stay in a cell with a toilet covered in shit, is not something that will end well for those around you."
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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"(Though I wouldn’t be surprised if 20 percent or so of our population would find a way to rationalize that, too. Because that’s how far we’ve fallen.) But just this week, the Drudge Report was littered with headlines about such activities. Here’s a sampling:
Migrants Forced To 'Eat Like Dogs'
'Caged Like Chickens'
Camera Over Toilet
FEMA Camp Raises Alarm
Are you okay with that? I’m not."
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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"I think victims, in many cases (not the ones where they die from neglect), can recover from horrific treatment like this, but I don’t think doing it is something a person can come back from."
Robyn Pennacchia
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-has-entered-its-abu-ghraib-era
"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."
~ Matt Labash
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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"(Though I wouldn’t be surprised if 20 percent or so of our population would find a way to rationalize that, too. Because that’s how far we’ve fallen.) But just this week, the Drudge Report was littered with headlines about such activities. Here’s a sampling:
Migrants Forced To 'Eat Like Dogs'
'Caged Like Chickens'
Camera Over Toilet
FEMA Camp Raises Alarm
Are you okay with that? I’m not."
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."
~ Matt Labash
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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Alex Akselrod
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Today in Labor History July 14, 1789: Parisians stormed the Bastille during the French Revolution. The Bastille was a fortress, armory and political prison, and was a symbol of tyranny, feudal authority and the "divine" rights of kings. The Marquis de Sade had been imprisoned there and was transferred out only 10 days before the storming. The French Revolution succeeded in overthrowing the monarchy, replacing it with a bourgeois republic. However, it sparked optimism among working people throughout the world and inspired other revolutions, like the Haitian Revolution, in 1791.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #french #Revolution #bastille #haiti #prison #torture
Today in Labor History July 14, 1789: Parisians stormed the Bastille during the French Revolution. The Bastille was a fortress, armory and political prison, and was a symbol of tyranny, feudal authority and the "divine" rights of kings. The Marquis de Sade had been imprisoned there and was transferred out only 10 days before the storming. The French Revolution succeeded in overthrowing the monarchy, replacing it with a bourgeois republic. However, it sparked optimism among working people throughout the world and inspired other revolutions, like the Haitian Revolution, in 1791.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #french #Revolution #bastille #haiti #prison #torture
vruz
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#ICE memo outlines plan to #deport #immigrants to countries where they are not #citizens
The shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
The shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
Federal #immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as 6 hours notice to countries not their own even if ofcls have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from #persecution or #torture….
#Trump #law #rendition
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/12/immigrants-deportations-trump-ice-memo/
#ICE memo outlines plan to #deport #immigrants to countries where they are not #citizens
The shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
The shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
Federal #immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as 6 hours notice to countries not their own even if ofcls have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from #persecution or #torture….
#Trump #law #rendition
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/12/immigrants-deportations-trump-ice-memo/
⚖️ The rule of law is the cornerstone of our democracies.
Today we published the 2025 Rule of Law Report, assessing justice systems, anti-corruption efforts, media freedom, and institutional checks across all EU countries.
The Report shows progress but also highlights work still needed to protect our democracy, fundamental rights, and economy.
Together with EU countries, we are working to protect the rule of law for people, for business and for Europe’s future.
@EUCommission
There is no rule of law in Hungary! Maja, a non-binary person who was abducted from Germany to Hungary, has been on hunger strike for over a month.
Instead of releasing Maja from custody, it is now being considered to insert a pacemaker into Maja in order to be able to continue the show trial! Act at last, Commission President von der Leyen!
joene 🏴🍉
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Gaza Doctors Under Attack
https://archive.org/details/gaza-doctors-under-attack_202507
The documentary chronicles Israel’s targeting and destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and medics, 1,500 of whom have been killed.
It's a 2025 documentary on doctors working during the #Gaza war, detailing the killings and #torture of #healthcare workers and attacks on #hospitals by the Israel Defence Forces (#IDF) during the conflict.
#warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #crimesagainsthumanity #gazagenocide #health #medicare#Palestine
via @ecpoir @palestine @israel
der.hans
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"When asked how it was possible the German people ultimately allowed the Nazi Party to rise to power, to take the nation to war, and ultimately to commit the Holocaust, we need not look further that what is happening in our name, using our tax dollars, this very moment in the U.S."
#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
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#warcrimes #gazagenocide #palestine #IsraelWarCrimes #health #medicare#WHO #IsraelTerroristState
Under a total Israeli blockade and relentless bombardment, Gaza’s healthcare system is devastated. This week, the last dialysis machines at Al-Shifa Medical Complex were forced to shut down. With no fuel left to power them, hundreds of patients now face death, not from injury, but from deliberate deprivation.
Under a total Israeli blockade and relentless bombardment, Gaza’s healthcare system is devastated. This week, the last dialysis machines at Al-Shifa Medical Complex were forced to shut down. With no fuel left to power them, hundreds of patients now face death, not from injury, but from deliberate deprivation.
According to health officials, more than 400 dialysis patients, nearly 40% of Gaza’s dialysis community, have already died since the war began. They were not killed in airstrikes; they were killed by "Israel's" policy, by blockade, by the refusal to allow fuel through the gates.
The World Health Organization has raised urgent alarms, highlighting the complete exhaustion of kidney medication supplies and an acute shortage of dialysis equipment. Yet the borders remain sealed, the fuel remains blocked, and the machines remain off.
Last month, Israeli occupation forces destroyed the Noura al-Kaabi dialysis center in northern #Gaza. The facility was affiliated with the Indonesian Hospital, located in the northern part of the Strip, which has been repeatedly besieged by Israeli forces who have opened fire on anyone moving within its grounds.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--blocks-fuel--gaza-s-al-shifa-forced-to-halt-dialysi
Gaza Doctors Under Attack
https://archive.org/details/gaza-doctors-under-attack_202507
The documentary chronicles Israel’s targeting and destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and medics, 1,500 of whom have been killed.
It's a 2025 documentary on doctors working during the #Gaza war, detailing the killings and #torture of #healthcare workers and attacks on #hospitals by the Israel Defence Forces (#IDF) during the conflict.
#warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #crimesagainsthumanity #gazagenocide #health #medicare#Palestine
via @ecpoir @palestine @israel
"Prison officials repeatedly told Plaintiff Abrego Garcia that they would transfer him to the cells containing gang members who, they assured him, would 'tear' him apart. ...
During his first two weeks at CECOT, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia suffered a significant deterioration in his physical condition and lost approximately 31 pounds (dropping from approximately 215 pounds to 184 pounds)."
#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
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"Even though the United States of America is an empire in decline thanks to the self-destructive policies of the oligarchy, we can take comfort in knowing we’ll have the world’s first 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention facility.
Who needs public schools, affordable health, reliable infrastructure, and steady jobs when you can instead invest that money into private prisons?"
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump#Republicans #immigrants #prisons #torture#AlligatorAlcatraz
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/who-needs-medicaid-when-you-can-have
He was "forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. The detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation."
#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
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"Prison officials repeatedly told Plaintiff Abrego Garcia that they would transfer him to the cells containing gang members who, they assured him, would 'tear' him apart. ...
During his first two weeks at CECOT, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia suffered a significant deterioration in his physical condition and lost approximately 31 pounds (dropping from approximately 215 pounds to 184 pounds)."
#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
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He was "kicked in the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body."
#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
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He was "forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. The detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation."
#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
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Evan Hurst quotes from the brief that Kilmar Abrego García's attorney filed yesterday, detailing his torture at CECOT:
"Plaintiff Abrego Garcia reports that he was subjected to severe mistreatment upon arrival at CECOT, including but not limited to severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture."
#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/this-is-what-trump-paid-el-salvador
He was "kicked in the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body."
#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
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