“Those supposed trucks that arrived do not mean that they are going to start selling rice, sugar or milk to the population. They are only now distributing the rice and sugar of the month that has not arrived, the milk of the children that they have not given,” says a Cuban resident in Santiago de … Read more
The protests by Catalan prison officials following the murder of a cook at the hands of a prisoner last Wednesday have confirmed the inability of the acting Government of Pere Aragonès to stop the open crisis in the prisons. Since Friday, intermittently, workers’ blockades have forced prisoners to be locked in their cells, suspended trials, … Read more
Fernando Grande-Marlaska, again in the eye of the hurricane. Thousands of national police and civil guards marched this Saturday through some of the main streets in the center of Madrid to demand the resignation of the Minister of the Interior in a protest that included the participation of PP and Vox deputies. The demonstration – … Read more
Concentration of officials in front of the Quatre Camins prison (Barcelona), on the third day of protests over the murder in prison of a cook at the hands of an inmate.Maximilian Minocri April 24, 2016. Around 1:30 a.m. In a private home in Valls (Tarragona). Iulian Odriste, a 41-year-old construction employee, picks up a kitchen … Read more
The blockade that prison officials have maintained since early this Friday on access to penitentiary centers in Catalonia is beginning to have serious consequences. The protests have prevented the change of shift and, with staff at minimum levels, the nine centers in Catalonia have seen normality altered. Six of them have been forced to confine … Read more
The security and paramilitary forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran killed hundreds of people following orders from the authorities. They also detained, imprisoned, tortured or subjected to forced disappearance, among other “inhuman acts”, numerous Iranians during the repression of protests against the regime that began on September 16, 2022, when Yina Mahsa Amini, a … Read more
This Monday, Iran released the official results of the legislative elections held last Friday, in which the conservatives renewed the comfortable majority they had in Parliament during the last legislature, with 232 seats out of 290. The country’s Electoral Commission has announced that 245 of that total number in the running have been elected in … Read more
they stayed, The title of a song by Shervin Hajipour, means “because” or “because” in Farsi. The lyrics that this 26-year-old musician, one of the most popular in Iran, wrote, inspired by 31 messages that other Iranians had published on social networks, say: “For dancing in the streets”, “for every time we were afraid to … Read more