Month: Mar 2024

from thefreeonline on 27 March, 2024 by Banned News

Lusya Stein has been sentenced in absentia to six years in prison for ‘discrediting the Russian army’

Pussy Riot member and former deputy of Moscow’s Basmanny District, Lyudmila (Lusya) Stein

A member of the anarchist punk group Pussy Riot, Lusya Stein, has been sentenced in absentia to over six years in prison for spreading fake news about the Russian army, according to a verdict handed down by Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Wednesday.

insert comment: Although there is still no Martial Law or General Mobilization in Russia draconian repressive laws have been introduced in the context of the ongoing war with Ukraine/NATO. The latest sentences shows how repression continues, for instance against the Pussy Riot artists’ effective agitprop actions exposing to Russian youth the authoritarian, machista and ridiculous culture of their elite political and religious rulers. – With the Russian State presently uniting people in a ‘fight for existence’ any positive criticism of dangerous centralized state power is seen as subversive and traitorous and much longer prison sentences are being handed out. Both Lusya Stein and Maria Alyokhina fled Russia just in time, but when the war is finally over Pussy Riot’s ideas may well triumph.

In addition to having to serve “six years and 15 days” in a general population correctional colony, Stein is also to be barred from administering websites or posting anything on the internet or other “information and telecommunication networks” for a period of 3.5 years, the court ruled.

State prosecutors, who demanded 8.5 years in prison for the activist, noted that Stein’s term includes the time she has yet to serve under a previous conviction from August 2021. The sentence will come into force as soon as she is extradited to Russia or is detained on Russian territory.

Stein is believed to have left Russia in April 2022 together with another member of Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, after they were sentenced to one year in prison for taking part in protests in violation of coronavirus restrictions.

‘What do you want your world to look like?
What do you want it to be?
Do you know that a wall has two sides?
And nobody is free? ….‘

The latest case against Stein was opened in 2022, charging her with discrediting the Russian army online. At the time, she was placed on the national wanted list. In November 2023, the Basmanny court ‘arrested her in absentia’ for two months and she was placed on the international wanted list.

READ MORE: Pussy Riot founder’s sentence overturned

In August 2022, Stein was arrested in Switzerland along with several other members of Pussy Riot for trying to spray paint graffiti on a wall in the town of Koeniz. They were eventually released and slapped with a $400 fine. The group left vowing to “spread our message to other countries,” and stated they were willing to “face further arrests” if needed.

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What do you want your world to look like?
What do you want it to be?
Do you know that a wall has two sides?
And nobody is free? ….

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from thefreeonline on 25/3/24 By Stockholm Center for Freedom

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued the decree on March 20, 2021 that pulled the country out of the international treaty

Millions of Girls Enslaved, Abused, Tortured, Raped, Killed in the Name of Religion and Fake, Toxic Masculinity

At least 996 women in Turkey have been killed by men since the country’s 2021 withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty aimed at combating domestic violence, while 748 women have died under suspicious circumstances, Turkish Minute reported, citing a report by the We Will Stop Femicide Platform (KCDP).

338 women in Turkey fell victim to femicide in a year: reportMarch 8, 2024

March 20 marks the third anniversary of the issuance of a presidential decree ordering Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, which led to outrage among women’s rights groups in the country and drew international condemnation.

Statistics from the platform showed that 280 women were killed by men in Turkey in 2021. The figure was 334 in 2022, 315 in 2023, 31 in January and 36 in February 2024. Most of the women were killed either by their ex-husbands or partners whom they wanted to break up with and mostly by the use of firearms.

Turkish women protest proposed law to pardon rapists who marry their victims

The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence is an international accord designed to protect women’s rights and prevent domestic violence in societies and was opened to the signature of member countries of the council in 2011.

According to the KCDP, 748 other women have died under suspicious circumstances since 2021.

Women at all educational levels earn less than men: TurkStat March 7, 2024

Despite opposition from the international community and women’s rights groups, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued the decree on March 20, 2021 that pulled the country out of the international treaty, which requires governments to adopt legislation prosecuting perpetrators of domestic violence and similar abuse as well as marital rape and female genital mutilation.

Erdoğan claimed the treaty had been “hijacked by a group of people attempting to normalize homosexuality,” which he said was “incompatible” with Turkey’s “social and family values.”

Turkey officially withdrew from the convention on July 1, 2021.

SCF releases report on human rights violations in Turkey in 2023 March 5, 2024

Femicides and violence against women are serious problems in Turkey, where women are killed, raped or beaten every day. Critics say the main reason behind the situation is the policies of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, which protects violent and abusive men by affording them impunity.

Turkey was ranked 129th out of 146 countries with respect to inequalities between men and women in the Global Gender Gap Report 2023.

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from thefreeonline on 25th March 2024 by DESERTIFICATION

Greenpeace warns 75% of Spain to become desert without urgent action against climate change.

Almeria’s ‘Sea of Plastic’ is one area showing the effects of desertification. In winter much of Europe gets fresh vegetables (albeit contaminated with agro-toxics) from Almeria’s plastic plain, supplied by dwindling and salinated groundwater as the great Sahara desert marches northwards.

The worrying figure, which comes from research carried out by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, reflects the ‘critical’ water situation in Spain.

Desertification is the process by which vegetation in drylands decreases and eventually disappears, creating a desert landscape.

One example of this process is Almeria and its ‘Sea of Plastic’, which produces thousands of tons of vegetables each year – using groundwater to supply these vast crop-producing areas exacerbates diminishing water reserves and degrades soil quality.

According to Greenpeace, which released the information to mark World Water Day, celebrated on March 22 every year, Spain and Greece are the European countries with the greatest stress placed on water supply.

Over 12 million Spaniards are currently under some form of water restriction, with droughts raging in Andalucia and Catalunya as reservoir levels continue to dwindle.

Scientific projections predict that Spain could suffer droughts ten times as worse as those currently occurring if action isn’t undertaken to combat the effects of climate change.

Prolonged periods of drought and heat will reduce the availability of freshwater, threatening agricultural yields.

This could lead to water shortages and higher food prices.

After a 3 year drought Barcelona received over 80 mm of rain so far in March 2024. It is hoped that a weather cycle within Climate change has altered, perhaps connected to the ending of the El Niño world phenomenon, and we are planting potatoes!

Greenpeace is urging authorities in Spain to “convert the country’s current intensive and super-intensive agricultural production to sustainable, diversified and low water consumption farms and increase organic farming to 30% of the surface area by 2030 and 100% by 2050”.

“To achieve food sovereignty, promote the use of traditional seeds and increase the biodiversity of farms. Develop an adaptation and recovery plan for the most climate-vulnerable agricultural areas in coordination with the autonomous communities, based on agroecology, soil recovery, regeneration of ecosystems, and protection and restoration of rivers and wetlands”, added the activist group. 

Greenpeace’s Spanish branch has also highlighted nine separate environmental challenges which Spain will be forced to confront in the coming years as the climate continues to warm.

These are: “Pollution by fossil fuels, drought, fire, loss of biodiversity, pollution from industrial agriculture, pollution from industrial livestock farming, mass tourism, plastics and environmental impunity”.

Spain denounces “indiscriminate massacres” in Gaza but buys and exports Israeli weapons

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