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The University of Chicago is not the only campus imposing harsh punishments on student protesters. At the University of Minnesota, seven students face up to two-and-a-half years of suspension and $5,000 in alleged damages, months after being arrested during an October protest. The students had occupied a campus building they renamed ”Halimy Hall“, after a…
The judge’s temporary restraining order is a setback for Trump’s efforts to roll back transgender rights and services. A United States federal judge has temporarily blocked an executive order from President Donald Trump that curtailed access to gender transition care for people younger than 19. Thursday’s ruling by District Judge Brendan Hurson stems from a…
New York, United States – Last week, United States President Donald Trump published a message directed at the student protesters who participated in last year’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations. It was a warning. And it was aimed specifically at the immigrants among the protesters. “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put…
Los Angeles, California – As a series of wind-driven wildfires caused unprecedented destruction in southern California this month, fire crews composed of currently and formerly incarcerated individuals were at the forefront of the fight to contain the flames. California’s firefighting programme has long been criticised for its reliance on imprisoned workers, who face low pay…
United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that seeks to repurpose Guantanamo Bay, a US prison in Cuba, into a detention centre for unauthorised immigrants. About 11 million such immigrants live in the US, where the total population is 341 million, according to estimates by the Pew Research Center. Debates about…
Critics say the reforms are the latest to further concentrate power in the hands of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. A series of constitutional reforms granting sweeping new powers to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega have been passed without dissent by the country’s legislature. A unanimous vote on Thursday ushered in what critics have described as…
United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday, announcing that documents related to the assassinations of former US President John F Kennedy (JFK), his younger brother, Senator Robert F Kennedy (RFK) and civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr (MLK) are to be declassified. According to the National Archives and Records Administration,…
Cape Town, South Africa – On January 23, 1915, two boatmen named Dolly Jenniker and Zulu Madhliwa drowned in the Orange River in South Africa. They were ferrying supplies to Union of South Africa forces which had invaded German South West Africa (GSWA, now Namibia) as part of the Allied campaign against Germany in World…
On a cold December morning in 1931, a short, elderly Black woman set out on a 24km (15-mile) walk from her homestead in Alabama, United States, on a quest for justice. The long trek to the court in Selma was no small undertaking for a person in her mid-70s. But Matilda McCrear was determined to…
When Ashoka* heard boots approaching, he began to shiver in fear. The 23-year-old was in the engine room of his boat, as three Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) men boarded the vessel. When Ashoka, an Indian fisherman from Pamban Island at the southernmost tip of India, came out on the deck, he saw the officers beating…
