Striking workers gather outside the Marikana mine in South Africa’s North West province, Aug. 23, after the funeral of those killed in the police massacre there a week earlier. Workers arrested after the massacre have now been charged with the murder… Read moreMarikana massacre survivors charged with murder
An interview with Hamja Ahsan and Aviva Stahl
by Angola 3 News
On April 10, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued judgement in the case of Babar Ahmad and Others v The United Kingdom, making a landmark ruling on the legitimacy of solitary confinement, extreme isolation and life without parole in US supermax prisons. The ECHR denied the appeal filed jointly by six appellants, consisting of four British nationals (Babar Ahmad, Haroon Rashid Aswat, Syed Talha Ahsan, and Mustafa Kamal Mustafa AKA Abu Hamza), an Egyptian national (Adel Abdul Bary) and a Saudi Arabian national (Khaled Al-Fawwaz), who have been imprisoned in the United Kingdom, pending extradition to the United States for alleged terrorism-related activities.
Continue ReadingTHE BABAR AHMAD CASE: DO U.S. PRISONS VIOLATE EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS LAW?
