prisoners – The News Desk

Jailed Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Says He’s Fine After Weeks Missing

26Dec

By adminNo Comments

World

Jailed Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Says He’s Fine After Weeks Missing

Updated Dec. 26, 2023 4:06 pm ETJailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny resurfaced on social media Tuesday, telling his supporters not to worry about him a day after his associates confirmed he has been traced to a remote penal colony in Russia’s Far North.“I am fine,” Navalny said in his first comments since his disappearance almost three weeks ago, posted via his allies on the social-media platform X. “Thanks again to everyone for your support.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

25Dec

By adminNo Comments

Health

Alexei Navalny Lives – WSJ

Some residual good news for courage in 2023: Alexei Navalny is alive and has been located in a distant prison colony. His team says the leading opponent of Vladimir Putin’s despotism was moved without announcement to a prison called the Polar Wolf in the remote Arctic region of Yamalo-Nenets. This a frozen, isolated area known for some of the most brutal conditions in the Putin-era gulag.The context for his isolation is the Russian presidential election scheduled for March 17. There’s no chance Mr. Putin will lose in the rigged political system. But before Mr. Navalny disappeared, he and his team launched a campaign to expose that Mr. Putin is far less popular than the Kremlin claims.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Jailed Putin Foe Alexei Navalny Has Been Relocated, Team Says

25Dec

By adminNo Comments

World

Jailed Putin Foe Alexei Navalny Has Been Relocated, Team Says

Jailed Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who had been missing for more than two weeks, has been relocated to a penal colony in the country’s far north and is doing well, his team said on Monday.Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, had missed court dates and his team couldn’t find him at various penal institutions in Russia. His disappearance had prompted concern among his supporters in European capitals and in Washington.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

24Dec

By adminNo Comments

World

Message From a Cuban Jail

Mary Anastasia O'Grady writes "The Americas," a weekly column on politics, economics and business in Latin America and Canada that appears every Monday in the Journal. Ms. O'Grady joined the paper in August 1995 and became a senior editorial page writer in December 1999. She was appointed an editorial board member in November 2005. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Indianapolis-based Liberty Fund. In 2012 Ms. O’Grady won the Walter Judd Freedom Award from The Fund for American Studies. In 2009 Ms. O'Grady received the Thomas Jefferson Award from The Association of Private Enterprise Education. In 2005 Ms. O'Grady won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism awarded by the International Policy Network for her articles on the World Bank, the underground economy in Brazil and th...

Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Missing From Prison

12Dec

By adminNo Comments

World

Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Missing From Prison

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s leading opposition figure, is missing from the penal colony where he has been imprisoned and his whereabouts are unknown, his spokeswoman and other allies said, prompting concern in Washington about his condition. Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, hasn’t been heard from for nearly a week, his team said on X. In recent weeks he had become ill and was put on an IV by prison staff. The team said that when his lawyers asked on Monday about his whereabouts in two penal colonies in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow, where he had been recently held, they were told he wasn’t at either one.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

The Hamas Leader Who Studied Israel’s Psyche—and Is Betting His Life on What He Learned

10Dec

By adminNo Comments

World

The Hamas Leader Who Studied Israel’s Psyche—and Is Betting His Life on What He Learned

Dec. 10, 2023 12:01 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)When Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was imprisoned in Israel more than a decade ago, he explained to an Israeli official a theory now central to the war in Gaza. Sinwar said that what Israel considers its strength—that most Israelis serve in the army and soldiers hold a special status in society—is a weakness that can be exploited, said Yuval Bitton, who spent time with Sinwar as the former head of the Israel Prison Service’s intelligence division.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

4Dec

By adminNo Comments

Business

Venezuela Breaks Another Promise – WSJ

Well, that was predictable. On Nov. 30 the Maduro regime in Venezuela ignored the U.S. deadline to lay out a process to reinstate opposition candidates for a 2024 presidential election. Will the Biden Administration take it lying down? In return for that Maduro promise, made Oct. 17 with the democratic opposition, the Biden Administration eased sanctions for six months on the export of Venezuelan oil and new investment in the country. The U.S. also lifted bans on dealing with the government-owned mining company and on trading some Venezuelan securities. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Hamas Releases 16 Hostages as Negotiators Push to Extend Truce

30Nov

By adminNo Comments

World

Hamas Releases 16 Hostages as Negotiators Push to Extend Truce

Updated Nov. 29, 2023 7:32 pm ETListen to article(2 minutes)Israel said Hamas released 16 hostages in the final hours of a truce that negotiators are trying to extend in hopes of securing the freedom of the remaining women and children still being held by militants in Gaza.Ten Israelis, including one who is also a U.S. citizen, were released as part of the soon-to expire deal. Four Thai nationals and two Israeli-Russian citizens were also released, but they aren’t considered to be covered by the existing deal. In exchange, 30 Palestinians who had been imprisoned were freed under the truce deal, the Israeli prison service said.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

The Law That Brought to Light a Flurry of Sexual-Assault Allegations

29Nov

By adminNo Comments

World

The Law That Brought to Light a Flurry of Sexual-Assault Allegations

A window expired Nov. 24 to file sexual-assault claims under New York’s Adult Survivors Act no matter how long ago the conduct occurred, prompting a flurry of court filings at the deadline. The filings led to headlines about allegations against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, rapper Sean Combs and others.Here’s what you need to know:Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Negotiators Press for Longer Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire

28Nov

By adminNo Comments

World

Negotiators Press for Longer Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire

Updated Nov. 28, 2023 7:01 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)DOHA, Qatar—The chief brokers of the Israel-Hamas hostage-prisoner exchange are pushing the two sides to prolong the cease-fire in Gaza through the end of the week and start talks on a permanent truce that would end the war altogether, said Egyptian and Qatari officials.A long-term cease-fire would likely require Israel and Hamas to make hard-to-swallow concessions, such as trading Israeli soldiers for potentially thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, the officials said. And it would require Israel to hold back on an offensive in southern Gaza intended to capture the strip and kill Hamas’s top leadership, the officials said. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c...