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Women Join Hunger And Labor Strike At Delaney Hall ICE Jail

Nearly 40 women have joined the hunger strike at Delaney Hall immigrant jail in Newark, New Jersey, releasing a new set of gender-specific demands as the strike enters its fourth week. On June 11, dozens of women detained in unit 1 of the jail announced that they were joining the hunger strike. Their demands include improving conditions in the facility; the release of female detainees, beginning with those who are under 21 years old, mothers, and women with medical conditions; and the firing of a guard who they say has sexually assaulted at least 10 women detained in the facility.

Global Sumud Activists Continue Hunger Strike

Three weeks after being kidnapped by the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), 10 of 11 volunteers of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud land convoy remain unlawfully detained in an immigration facility in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi. The Global Sumud Flotilla coalition announced that Mehdi Bouzguenda (from Tunisia), was the only volunteer to be released and return to his country on Sunday, June 7. The fate of the remaining 10 activists is still uncertain. Refusing both food and water, their ”dry” hunger strike has continued for around 10 days, while they remain barred from communicating with the outside world. At this stage, the “dry” hunger strike is reportedly life threatening.

Activists From 13 Countries Launch Global Solidarity Hunger Strike

Benghazi, Libya – An international crisis is rapidly escalating as 11 humanitarian volunteers enter their third week of unlawful captivity in Libya. In a desperate bid for freedom, 10 of the kidnapped convoy volunteers detained in Benghazi have been on a strict dry hunger strike since June 1, putting them at imminent risk of organ failure and death.  In an act of solidarity and to bring attention to their urgent situation, a Global Solidarity Hunger Strike has quickly been organized across five continents. Dozens of activists from 13 countries, including: Canada, Spain, Italy, the United States, and South Africa—are now on hunger strike.

Land Convoy Mission Status: Ten Negotiators Detained

Tripoli, Libya — The Global Sumud Land Convoy was forced to conclude its overland humanitarian mission to Gaza, following obstacles including bureaucratic warfare, violence against unarmed and peaceful participants, and the detention of 10 persons who attempted to meet with eastern Libyan authorities to negotiate the convoy’s safe passage to Egypt. The convoy of 230 participants from more than 20 countries, including doctors, engineers, educators, lawyers and ecobuilders, alongside 7 ambulances, 20 mobile homes, and 10 aid trucks loaded with life-saving supplies and was intended for the besieged civilian population of Gaza. 

Judge Dismisses Criminal Charges Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

On Friday, a federal judge dismissed the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ruling that the Trump administration had shown “presumptive vindictiveness” and had charged him in retaliation for his lawsuit challenging his wrongful deportation to El Salvador. Judge Waverly Crenshaw said in her ruling that the Department of Justice reopened a closed, four-year-old investigation into Abrego Garcia in an “abuse of prosecuting power.” She said that without Abrego Garcia’s “successful lawsuit challenging his removal to El Salvador, the government would not have brought this prosecution.”

Protesters Confront ICE In Support Of Hunger And Labor Strike

More than 300 people locked inside of Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, have been on hunger and labor strike since Friday demanding their freedom. The strike follows the release of an open letter drawing attention to the inhumane conditions inside the 1,000-bed facility operated by the private prison company GEO Group. Delaney Hall was reopened under Trump’s second term as part of his administration’s war on immigrants, despite the protests of the local community. The inhumane conditions at the facility, which caused the death of Haitian immigrant Jean Wilson Brutus late last year, include poor nutrition and medical treatment — particularly for children and people with disabilities — and lack of translation services.

Ten Global Sumud Land Convoy Volunteers Detained By Libya

Sirte, Libya — Ten civilian participants from the Global Sumud Land Convoy have been detained by Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) & eastern Libyan authorities (Government of National Salvation) after crossing the 5+5 line near Sirte in good faith to conduct peaceful negotiations on behalf of the convoy and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. The Global Sumud Flotilla is calling on governments worldwide to demand their immediate release. The ten delegates volunteered to cross into the 5+5 security zone to negotiate passage for the humanitarian mission. The final communication from the group was received at 3:22 pm local time on May 24.

Protest Demands Freedom For Student Anti-War Activist Yousof Azizi

Washington, DC – On Sunday, May 3, about 15 protesters gathered again outside the Customs and Border Patrol headquarters to protest the ICE detainment of Yousof Azizi, a PhD student and outspoken anti-war advocate. Azizi was kidnapped on April 13 while on his way home from dropping off his two children at school. Since then, he has been transferred at least twice, and has been repeatedly denied access to his lawyer and allowed only limited contact family. Chant leaders opened the program with calls such as “I-C-E, we don't need ‘em, we demand Yousof’s freedom!” and “CBP stop the lies, speaking out is not a crime!”

Washington DC Protest Demands Freedom For Yousof Azizi

Washington, DC – On Saturday, April 18, about 20 protesters gathered outside the Customs and Border Patrol headquarters to protest the ICE detainment of Yousof Azizi, a PhD student and outspoken anti-war activist. On Monday, April 13, Azizi was on his way home from dropping off his two children at school when ICE agents kidnapped him. Since then, he has been transferred first to a detention facility in Louisiana, then again to Arizona, against his will. Azizi has also been denied access to his lawyer, and allowed limited contact with his wife.

Leqaa Kordia On Life After ICE Detention

One month ago, Mondoweiss reported on what would be Leqaa Kordia’s final hearing to determine bail eligibility while confined in Prairieland Detention Center in North Texas. Now, she has returned to her home in Paterson, N.J., with renewed strength. Kordia’s release was widely celebrated. Notable supporters like Zohran Mamdani lauded her release, as did organizations including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). Perhaps the best known Columbia protester who had been arrested, Mahmoud Khalil, also met with Kordia, joining her at a press conference at Paterson City Hall alongside his wife and fellow activist Dr. Noor Abdalla.

War On Free Speech Expands To Detention, Sanctions Of Individuals

The plutocratic power structure in the United States is clamping down on our right to know and to dissent by illegally detaining individuals who speak out or shutting down their access to financial services. Clearing the FOG speaks with political analyst Ali Alizadeh about the unlawful detention of Iranian public policy PhD student at Virginia Tech, Yousof Azizi, who is frequently a guest on major media outlets. The second guest is Rainey Reitman of the Freedom of the Press foundation, who discusses her new book, "Transaction Denied: Big finance's power to punish speech."

The Arrest Of Yousof Azizi And The Collapse Of ‘Free Speech’

Inspired by the growing campaign to free Yousof Azizi, I looked deeper into his case—and what unfolds is not an anomaly, but a warning. This is what the erosion of academic freedom looks like in real time. A scholar taken. A voice removed. A mind deemed dangerous not for violence, but for dissent. Under the Trump regime, the university is no longer a sanctuary for inquiry—it is a hunting ground. The lecture hall gives way to surveillance. The visa becomes a leash. And the line between scholarship and subversion is redrawn by power. This brief report pulls together the fragments of a case that exposes something larger: a system increasingly intolerant of independent thought, where intellectual life itself is treated as a threat.

Salah Sarsour: A Pillar Taken, A Community That Will Not Yield

There are people you meet in the struggle for Palestine and justice who leave a mark not because of titles they hold or platforms they command, but because of who they are — quietly, consistently, and without asking for anything in return. Salah Sarsour is that kind of person. And the fact that he is sitting tonight in a detention facility, torn from his family and his community by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who pulled him over with no legitimate cause, is an injustice that demands that every one of us speak. I first met Salah over thirty years ago, when I was beginning to organize for Palestine on a national level and found myself visiting the Muslim community in Milwaukee.

Trump Has Detained Parents Of More Than 11,000 US Citizen Kids

The baby needed somewhere to go. So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife. As squad cars waited outside the family’s Lakeland, Florida, trailer home, she gave them a crash course in how to care for the 4-month-old. Briany, with her plump cheeks and full head of dark hair, wasn’t normally this fussy. But it was late that January night — around midnight — and she was still hungry. Her mom, Doris Flores, had tried nursing her to calm her down. It didn’t work. When she brought Briany to her breast, the milk wouldn’t come.

Press Freedom Groups Call For Release Of Journalist Arrested by ICE

On Tuesday, a coalition of 41 press-freedom groups demanded that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez. ICE failed to produce a warrant when Rodriguez, a Colombian-born reporter, was arrested on March 4, 2026. She has been in ICE custody since, moving between detention facilities with her current whereabouts likely in Alabama but unclear. Rodriguez had fled to the United States in 2021 after facing threats for her coverage of Colombia’s armed militia groups. She has since applied for political asylum in the United States, and has a pending green card application through her husband, who is a U.S. citizen.
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