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News in Brief
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Mobile Metro Jail guard Robert Aaron Small was fired and arrested for assault on June 27, 2024, one day after he allegedly used excessive force against an unnamed detainee. WKRG in Mobile said that the guard had worked at the lockup since 2019. Mobile County …
News in Brief
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alaska: On January 17, 2018, a 43-man riot flared and quickly dissipated on the yard of the maximum-security Spring Creek Correctional Center, leaving five prisoners with injuries and resulting in a facility-wide lockdown. Alaska Department of Corrections spokeswoman Megan Edge said guards deployed pepper spray when …
World Medical Association Declaration – WMA Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikes, 2017
Publication • October 1, 2017
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Retaliation, Hunger Strikes, Protests, Medical, Forcible Treatment, Food, Torture Victims Act
World Medical Association Declaration – WMA Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikes, 2017 WMA DECLARATION OF MALTA ON HUNGER STRIKERS Adopted by the 43rd World Medical Assembly, St. Julians, Malta, November 1991 and editorially revised by the 44th World Medical Assembly, Marbella, Spain, September 1992 and revised by the 57th …
El caso Portu - Sarasola, Los encubridores de la tortura al desnudo, Xabier Makazaga, 2015
Publication • February 16, 2016
Filed under: Excessive Force, International
El caso Portu - Sarasola, Los encubridores de la tortura al desnudo, Xabier Makazaga, 2015 1 caso Portu - Sarclsola Los enc�brilores de 1'a tortura al desnudo abier Makazaga • El caso Portu - Sarasola Los encubridores de la tortura al desnudo Xabier Makazaga Indice: Introducción ................................................................................................... 1 I Un …
Basque Fighters Win Major European Human Rights Court Ruling
Article • October 30, 2015
Filed under: Political Prisoners (International)
Basque Fighters Win Major European Human Rights Court Ruling by Derek Gilna Basque Fighters Win Major European Human Rights Court Ruling by Derek Gilna An October 2013 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has reversed a decision by the Spanish prosecutor’s office that had been used to …
Political Prisoners in Spain
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Organizing, Prison Rebellion, Hunger Strikes, Prisoners-International
Political Prisoners in Spain by Julia Lutsky Political Prisoners In Spain By Julia Lutsky Political prisoners exist in every country and every country denies their existence. Spain is no exception. It has seen three distinct waves of modern political prisoners: those who defended the popularly elected Spanish Republican Government against …
Spain and Belgium Abolish the Death Penalty
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Filed under: Prisoners-International, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty
Spain and Belgium Abolish the Death Penalty by As the U.S. increases the number of people it murders each year the trend in favor of state-sanctioned murder is ebbing elsewhere. Fifty-five countries around the world have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, fifteen others have abolished it for social …
Political Prisoner Information Wanted
Article • November 15, 1993 • from PLN November, 1993
Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International
Political Prisoner Information Wanted by We are an autonomist collective in Spain. Right now we are working on releasing a compilation tape of music to help fund the distribution of a booklet on political prisoners. We would like to receive as much information as possible from political prisoners and groups …
Letter from Spain
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International
Letter from Spain by by Pablo Serrano Zaragoza, Spain The only thing new is an important increase in the prisoner population. They are filling the prisons to the roof. They have built various new prisons that are already full. Aside from this process, which follows even greater social injustice and …
GRAPO Prisoners Tortured
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Prisoners-International
GRAPO Prisoners Tortured by Paul Wright All too often we hear about the physical mistreatment and abuse of prisoners, political and social. The impression we are given by the mainstream media and the governments of the western industrialized countries is that such abuses only occur in places like the Middle …
Basque Prisoners On Hunger Strike
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Organizing, Hunger Strikes, Prisoners-International
Basque Prisoners On Hunger Strike by On January 31, 1993, five Basque political prisoners in the Spanish prison of Caceres-2 began a hunger strike protesting their abysmal conditions of confinement. They have presented prison officials with a list of 22 demands, all of them relating to their living conditions. After …
Freedom Sought for Spanish Political Prisoner
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Organizing, Hunger Strikes, Prisoners-International
Freedom Sought for Spanish Political Prisoner by Juan Manuel Perez Hernandez is a 40 year old telecommunications engineer serving a 30 year sentence for his militancy in GRAPO (Anti Fascist Resistance Group, First of October, a communist organization). He is married and has a daughter. He has been in prison …
Prison Repression in Spain
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International
Prison Repression in Spain by Jose Jimenez Fernandez Prison Repression In Spain The prison Meco is 30 kilometers from Madrid. It is a maximum security super prison where torture is most of ten practiced against the prisoners. Currently they have stopped beating prisoners a little but there is all kinds …
GRAPO Hungerstrike Ends
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Organizing, Hunger Strikes, Prisoners-International
GRAPO Hungerstrike Ends by PLN has reported previously on the progress of the hungerstrike in Spain by some 42 imprisoned members of GRAPO (Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups, First of October) and of the PCE(r) (Communist Party of Spain, reconstituted). The strike began on November 30, 1989, and ended February 2, 1991. …
GRAPO Prisoner Dies
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Organizing, Hunger Strikes, Prisoners-International
GRAPO Prisoner Dies by In Issue #1 of PLN we reported the hunger strike by GRAPO (Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups, First of October) in Spain who seek to end the governments policy of placing them in control units, dispersing them in different prisons, beating them, censoring their mail, prohibiting visits, etc. …
Hungerstrike in Spain
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Organizing, Prison Rebellion, Hunger Strikes, Prisoners-International
Hungerstrike in Spain by Since November 30, 1989, 42 political prisoners in Spain, mainly members of GRAPO (October 1st Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Groups) have been on hunger strikes demanding their release from isolation and control units and an end to the campaign of repression against them, which includes dispersion through the …