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      The Pratasevich Case Is an Urgent Reminder That Europe Fails to Protect Exiles

      The Pratasevich Case Is an Urgent Reminder That Europe Fails to Protect Exiles

      The operation to detain Raman Pratasevich is a call to action to protect journalists, dissidents and people seeking protection in Europe—at all costs.

      Thomas Rowley
      May 25, 2021

      It was just a few minutes before the Ryanair jet was set to cross into Lithuanian airspace when it diverted suddenly towards Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

      A sliver of time and space, of international and national jurisdictions, that decided the fate of one of the passengers: Raman Pratasevich, 26, journalist and co-founder of NEXTA, a popular and influential Belarusian opposition Telegram channel which rose to prominence in the wake of last year's tumultuous presidential elections.

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      Federal Judge Blocks Trump Order Targeting Lawyers Supporting ICC Afghan War Crimes Probe

      Federal Judge Blocks Trump Order Targeting Lawyers Supporting ICC Afghan War Crimes Probe

      "National security concerns must not become a talisman used to ward off inconvenient claims, a 'label' used to 'cover a multitude of sins.'"

      Brett Wilkins
      Jan 04, 2021

      A federal judge in New York on Monday issued an injunction against President Donald Trump's June executive order sanctioning human rights lawyers cooperating with an International Criminal Court investigtion of alleged U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan.

      U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla in Manhattan issued a preliminary injunction (pdf) barring the Trump administration from targeting four law professors with criminal or civil penalties for supporting the work of the ICC in its investigation of alleged extrajudicial killing, torture, rape, and other potential war crimes committed by military and CIA personnel and allied forces during the ongoing 19-year war in Afghanistan--the longest campaign of the so-called War on Terror.

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      Trump's Latest Tweets Are Not Just Racist, But Part of a Broader Reactionary Attack on the Left

      Trump's Latest Tweets Are Not Just Racist, But Part of a Broader Reactionary Attack on the Left

      Trump hates immigrants and he hates people of color. But it doesn't stop there. He hates worker rights. He hates journalists, and scientists, and educators. He hates democracy.

      Jeffrey C. Isaac
      Jul 15, 2019

      This week Donald Trump, the awful man who currently occupies the U.S Presidency, brought his racist, xenophobic, and authoritarian campaign against liberal democracy to a new low, taking to Twitter both to denounce four Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives, women of color all, and to imply that they are "aliens" who don't belong in the country:

      So interesting to see "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done.

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