About 40 percent of Palestinian males have been imprisoned by Israel at some point in their lives, a human rights lawyer said.
“It’s the highest rate of incarceration in the world, and it’s because Israel creates this system whereby the means of controlling Palestinians is through their imprisonment.”
Diana Buttu
Even smaller #Christian sects, like Baptists and Evangelicals, face #discrimination. The #Kremlin often labels them as “Western agents,” and their worship services are disrupted, and their pastors are given fines and threatened with violence and/or #imprisonment.
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@PeachMcD @davidaugust @mlbellar
>> Once that 
is in place, only a concerted vote boycott with < 40% #Voting will [show] it's not legitimate
This whole #SuuKyi story, from #electionDenial, to #imprisonment of political opponents, to #electionBoycott, and further loss of power as a result of the boycott is about to play out in the #US, isn't it?
Parts of it have already happened with uncanny resemblance and impeccable timing -- nearly contemporaneously with #Jan6
“UK Snubs Council of Europe Over Assange Inquiry”
by Mark Curtis of Declassified UK in Consortium News
“Politicians across Europe want Britain to investigate why the #WikiLeaks founder spent five years in jail”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/25/uk-snubs-council-of-europe-over-assange-inquiry/
#ElonMusk Voices His undying loyalty to Trump: Fears #Imprisonment if #KamalaHarris #Wins the #Election
“I’ve been trashing Kamala nonstop.” Musk stated, expressing fear over the potential long-term consequences of continued Democratic leadership. “My view is that if Trump doesn’t win this election it’s the last election we are going to have”
— Don't imprison him, deport him for illegal coordination between his PAC and the Trump Campaign.
Alexandr Nikolayevich #Shiplyuk , #Doctor of Physical and Mathematical #Sciences , has been sentenced to 15 years #imprisonment for betraying his country by giving secret information to #ccp #China
Source (fi): https://yle.fi/a/74-20010573/64-3-243748
Source (ru): https://www.interfax.ru/russia/979329
• #Trump shared another fusillade of posts on social media that cited #QAnon slogans, called for the #imprisonment of his opponents, & falsely suggested that #Harris used sex to advance her career.
On Thurs, Trump was in #Michigan & as coarse as ever — referring 2X to #Harris’s running mate, Gov #TimWalz of Minnesota, as “Tampon Tim”; repeating the preposterous #lie that in #Democratic states “you’re allowed to kill the baby after the baby is born”;
On Wednesday morning, Donald Trump had another #meltdown on his Truth Social profile, all before 10 a.m.
His many posts and “ReTruths” were #conspiracy laden, #crude, and calling for the #death or #imprisonment of his enemies.
One showed #Harris, Bill #Gates, Anthony #Fauci, and other Democrats wearing #orange jumpsuits captioned with: “HOW TO ACTUALLY ‘FIX THE SYSTEM.’”
Multiple posts had #QAnon themes, particularly the slogan “#WWG1WGA.”
Other posts called for a military #tribunal for former President Barack #Obama, and attacked the #FBI, the #Justice #Department, and the #House #January6 #committee
https://newrepublic.com/post/185393/trump-fascist-violent-posts-truth-social-death-enemies
Was working on a Free #Assange post but it has now changed to an Assange #Free 
post !!!
After many years of 
#imprisonment he is safely back with his family in #Australia 
Millions of people can finally remove the "FreeAssange" from their profiles 
#FreeAssange is now > #AssangeFree 
This case shows that many small people fighting back against the #government can have some impact :)
#Image: #CC0 https://madeindex.org
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel Good grief!!! Nothing justifies the #genocide by #imprisonment, #starvation and murder of a people. Nothing.
The world can no longer afford two things: 
the costs of economic inequality; and the rich.
Between 2020 and 2022, the world’s most affluent 1% of people captured nearly twice as much of the new global wealth created as did the other 99% of individuals put together
And in 2019 they emitted as much #carbon #dioxide as the poorest two-thirds of humanity.
In the decade to 2022, the world’s billionaires more than doubled their wealth, to almost US$12 trillion.
The evidence gathered by social epidemiologists, including us, shows that large differences in income are a powerful #social #stressor that is increasingly rendering societies dysfunctional.
For example, bigger gaps between rich and poor are accompanied by higher rates of #homicide and #imprisonment.
They also correspond to more #infant #mortality, #obesity, #drug #abuse and @COVID-19 #deaths, as well as higher rates of teenage pregnancy and lower levels of child well-being, social mobility and public trust
The #homicide rate in the United States
— the most unequal Western democracy
— is more than 11 times that in Norway (see go.nature.com/49fuujr).
#Imprisonment rates are ten times as high, and infant mortality and obesity rates twice as high.
These problems don’t just hit the poorest individuals, although the poorest are most badly affected.
Even #affluent people would enjoy a better quality of life if they lived in a country with a more equal distribution of wealth, similar to a Scandinavian nation.
They might see improvements in their mental health and have a reduced chance of becoming victims of violence; their children might do better at school and be less likely to take dangerous drugs.
The costs of inequality are also excruciatingly high for #governments.
For example, the Equality Trust, a charity based in London (of which we are patrons and co-founders), estimated that the United Kingdom alone could save more than £100 billion ($126 billion) per year if it reduced its inequalities to the average of those in the five countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that have the smallest income differentials
— Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Norway and the Netherlands5.
And that is considering just four areas: greater number of years lived in full health, better mental health, reduced homicide rates and lower imprisonment rates.
Many commentators have drawn attention to the environmental need to limit economic growth and instead prioritize sustainability and well-being.
Here we argue that tackling inequality is the foremost task of that transformation.
Greater @equality will reduce unhealthy and excess consumption, and will increase the #solidarity and #cohesion that are needed to make societies more adaptable in the face of climate and other emergencies.
The recent rise in false imprisonments and eventual exonerations is a clear example of how deeply flawed the U.S. judiciary system is. #Prison #Imprisonment #Exoneration #CentralParkFive
https://progressive.org/latest/how-many-more-are-still-imprisoned-rosen-20240123/
The research is clear: #Solitaryconfinement causes long-lasting harm
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/12/08/solitary_symposium/
#DavidDePape #convicted of assaulting #PaulPelosi & attempted #kidnapping of NancyPelosi.
#DePape faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison for the #assault conviction & 20 years for the attempted kidnapping.
DePape will face another trial on state charges of attempted #murder, assault w/ a deadly weapon, elder #abuse, residential #burglary, false #imprisonment & threatening serious bodily harm to a public official. He has pleaded not guilty.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/11/16/paul-pelosi-nancy-david-depape-trial/
#ElectoralCollege, which gives lopsided power to thinly-populated states, is the root of the problem. This is singularly responsible for #minorityRule in US.
Without EC reform, we cannot have #SCOTUS justices reflect public opinion (see #CitizensUnited). We cannot have constitutional #amendments either.
This dissatisfaction over state of affairs is more likely to boil over after a certain threshold is crossed. The boil-over is not going to happen over Trump's #imprisonment
Failed former and disgraced #president #donaldtrump was threatened with #imprisonment by #Judge #Engoron for violating his #gagorder by failing to remove a false and defamatory #tweet about the judge’s staff. Surprise level = zero. #potus #trump #nationalembarrassment
The penalties for intentionally harming #animals are just too light. It's usually #probation, a small fine, and period of <5 years where the #offender isn't allowed to own animals. It's woefully inadequate, IMO. Intentionally abusing an #animal should come with a mandatory 3-year #imprisonment for a first #offense. If the animal dies as a result, the minimum should be 5-years. Those terms should go up for repeat offenders.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/nottingham-pigeon-attack-rspca-crime-b2394862.html
The UN Human Rights Council will discuss evidence of human rights violations in #Ukraine today. It will start with a report from the Secretary General on the situation in #Crimea , which was annexed by #Russia in 2014. The report details repeated #harassment, #imprisonment, and #torture of human rights defenders there by #Russian forces. (cont.)
