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UK Court Of Appeal Rules Palestine Action Ban To Be Lawful

June 15, 2026 Katherine Hearst, Middle East Eye. , , ,
The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court ruling and found the UK government’s ban on the direct action group Palestine Action to be lawful. In February, the High Court found that then Home Secretary Yvette Cooper's decision to proscribe the group was "unlawful" and "discriminatory", following a challenge brought by the group's co-founder Huda Ammori. It ruled that the ban constituted a breach of the European Convention of Human Rights as it entailed "a very significant" interference with rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. It further held that the ban was not consistent with the home secretary's own policy.

ICE Tries To Raid Legal Offices, Demanding Files On Migrant Children

June 15, 2026 Katya Schwenk, The Lever. , , ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents attempted to raid the offices of attorneys for unaccompanied migrant children this week, lawyers tell The Lever, the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s attempt to collect sensitive data on children in the U.S. immigration system. As The Lever first reported last week, the legal services providers for unaccompanied migrant children — who represent the youth in deportation proceedings — have been locked in a standoff with the Trump administration over requests for sensitive case data on their clients. Now, ICE agents are arriving at their doors.

Two Justice Systems: Karmelo Anthony, Racism And The Right To Self-Defense

June 15, 2026 Kathleen Grant and Lev Koufax, Struggle - La Lucha. , , ,
Karmelo Anthony, a young Black man, is headed to prison at the ripe age of 19. So, what was Karmelo’s crime? And why has the system deemed fit to erase his adult life with a brutal prison sentence? In April 2025, then-17-year-old Karmelo participated in a track meet in Frisco, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. It started to rain during the meet, so young Karmelo walked under a pop-up tent where he was met with immediate hostility. Upon entry into a rival team’s tent, he was confronted by Austin Metcalf and his twin brother. Karmelo was told to move out of Metcalf’s team tent, as the two parties were on rival teams.

Lawyers Build New Infrastructure To Fight Deportation Machine

June 14, 2026 Marianne Dhenin, Truthout. , , , ,
Coalitions of attorneys, rights groups, and other organizations are developing a powerful new infrastructure to challenge the Trump administration’s mass deportation machine. Several so-called habeas projects have been created in states or regions across the country in recent months to connect noncitizens facing unlawful detention with pro bono attorneys who can file habeas corpus petitions on their behalf in federal court. “When it became clear that the administration had made it its priority to prevent people from accessing bond and immigration courts and, really the mission of the administration seems to be to keep people in detention for as long as possible, we saw a need to help facilitate access to the federal courts,” Christy Rodriguez.

UK Judge Sentences Palestine Action Activists To Over 20 Years In Prison

June 13, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
Four Palestine Action anti-genocide activists received combined prison sentences of over 20 years on 12 June for sabotaging an Israeli drone facility in the UK in 2024. Judge Jeremy Johnson said an "aggravating factor" in his decision to imprison the activists was that they had a "terrorist connection." In August 2024, the four activists raided the Elbit Systems research and development facility in Filton, near Bristol, causing more than £1 million ($1,342,000) in damage in an attempt to shut it down. The facility conducts R&D for Tactical Multi-Rotor Quadcopter drones produced for the British Armed Forces and NATO. Elbit produces the same drones in Israel for use in Gaza. 

Charges Against U Of M Eight Threaten Entire Movement For Palestine

June 12, 2026 Kyle Thibodeau, Left Voice. , , , ,
On the morning of June 10 the FBI raided homes and arrested eight activists associated with the pro-Palestine movement. Local police and the University of Michigan aided the FBI with their investigation ahead of the raids. The activists are facing several charges including “conspiracy to transmit a threat,” with some facing up to 20 years in prison if convicted.  This raid and the extreme charges are a tactic to suppress solidarity with Palestine. A fully armed squad of federal government agents raided the homes of college students who spoke out against a live-streamed genocide.

Federal Court Dismisses Civil Rights Conspiracy Claims Against Pro-Palestine Activists, The People’s Forum

June 10, 2026 The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, Popular Resistance. , , ,
In an important victory for free speech, a federal court has dismissed with prejudice all civil rights conspiracy claims brought against The People's Forum and other individual defendants arising from the April 2024 occupation of Hamilton Hall — Hind’s Hall — at Columbia University. The ruling is a vindication of the right of The People’s Forum (TPF) and others to engage in political speech condemning U.S.-backed Israeli war crimes and genocide, and to call for support of encamped student activists demanding divestment. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) represented The People's Forum in the litigation.

Lawsuits Claim Cruel Conditions At Delaney Hall

June 6, 2026 Jose Pagliery, Not Us. , , , ,
Newark, N.J. — A woman says in court papers that guards starved her for five days straight. A man claims “conditions violate basic standards of human dignity.” And several plead for help as the drinking water tastes like “raw sewage.” The mistreatment of immigrant detainees that has led to daily protests outside a privately-run ICE jail in New Jersey is laid bare in lawsuits describing deplorable conditions as well as first-hand accounts of wretched treatment some believe is intentionally cruel. NOTUS visited the site on Thursday just as the Delaney Hall detention facility released Emanuel Rodrigues, a Brazilian man with a rare life-threatening medical condition, who spent what he says were 130 excruciating days in solitary confinement — labeled “medical isolation” by officials.

Disability Rights At Risk: Seven States Back Case Attacking Protections

May 31, 2026 Marianne Dhenin, Truthout. , , ,
The right of disabled people to live in community rather than being warehoused in institutions is under attack in a lawsuit currently being pursued by Texas and six other states. But advocacy efforts are persuading states to pull out of the suit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Secretary of HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr., called Texas v. Kennedy. Two state plaintiffs withdrew from the case in May after hearing concerns from the disability community, bringing the number of remaining state plaintiffs to only seven in an amended case that began with seventeen.

Land Convoy Mission Status: Ten Negotiators Detained

May 28, 2026 Global Sumud Flotilla. , , , ,
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

May 28, 2026 Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. , , , ,
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.”

Government Targets Cuba Solidarity Groups In Sweeping Investigation

May 27, 2026 People's World. , , ,
Federal investigators at the Justice and Treasury Departments have reportedly launched a sweeping inquiry into Cuba solidarity organizations, raising the danger of a revival of McCarthyite tactics to target Americans who oppose U.S. policy toward the island nation. According to Fox News, the DOJ and Treasury are investigating U.S. non-profits and activist groups that do Cuba solidarity work. The Trump administration alleges the groups coordinate lobbying, messaging, fundraising, delegations, and political organizing efforts with Cuban government officials—activity the U.S. government frames as potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and Treasury sanctions regulations.

Gaza Genocide Survivors File Criminal Complaint Against Top Israeli Officials

May 27, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
Two Polish-Palestinian survivors of the Gaza genocide filed a criminal complaint with Polish prosecutors in Wroclaw against Israeli officials for using starvation as a war weapon and obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid, Middle East Eye (MEE) reported on 27 May. The complaint, filed by Amjad Agha and Dr Ahmed Elsaftawy, names prominent Israeli figures such as former defense minister Yoav Gallant, current Defense Minister Israel Katz, and the leadership of Cogat, the agency overseeing aid access into the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.

Alleged Federal Subpoenas Regarding Humanitarian Aid Trip To Cuba

May 25, 2026 Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK. , , ,
Contrary to rumors, I have not received any subpoena from the U.S. government. Perhaps one is on the way. But let me be clear: we did nothing wrong during our March 2026 trip to Cuba. On the contrary, we acted as moral U.S. citizens trying to bring some relief to a population being deliberately starved by the cruel policies of our own government. We traveled to Cuba under the U.S. government-authorized category of providing humanitarian aid to the Cuban people. We brought desperately needed medicines and medical supplies at a time when Cuba is suffering catastrophic shortages caused by the crippling U.S. blockade.

Whistleblower Law Safe From US Supreme Court For Now

May 25, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , ,
The United States Supreme Court declined to hear Eli Lilly’s appeal against the constitutionality of the False Claims Act, which it pursued in order to avoid accountability for Medicaid fraud.  In 2022, a jury ordered the multinational pharmaceutical corporation to pay $61 million after whistleblower Ronald Streck alleged that the company had underpaid rebates that drug manufacturers must pay as part of Medicaid. Since damages were trebled and interest accrued, Eli Lilly was instructed to pay over $220 million.
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