Legal System

‘Tortured’ Or ‘Torturer’? – Corporate Media Fail To Ask The Question

October 12, 2026 Becca Renk Foster and John Perry, Popular Resistance. Educate! 2018 Coup Attempt, Legal System, Media, Nicaragua, Propaganda

On 1 October 2026, Jeffrey Isaac Jarquin, a 35-year-old Nicaraguan man, was deported from the United States by ICE and, on arrival in Managua, was immediately sent to prison by Nicaraguan authorities. Reports described him as a “torture victim,” a “political prisoner,” and a “prominent figure in the anti-government protests” that occurred in Nicaragua in 2018. His story was covered by the Washington Post, CNN, ABC News, The LA Times and other outlets. It featured on Democracy Now and he received support from the former head of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth.

Ecuadorian Fishermen Kidnapped By US Military Have Been Acquitted

October 12, 2026 BreakThrough News. Educate! Ecuador, Kidnapping, Legal System, US military

An Ecuadorian judge ordered the immediate release of nearly 30 fishermen whose two boats were destroyed by the US military in the Pacific Ocean. The Ecuadorian prosecutor’s office had charged them with alleged illegal activities. The sequence of events is telling. In two separate instances between late August and early September, the fishing boats Conquista II and María Candelaria were boarded by US military forces while on the high seas. The US forces, after transferring the fishermen to other vessels, destroyed and sank their boats.

Don’t Let Them Kill Cilia Flores!

October 10, 2026 Stephen Millies, Struggle - La Lucha. Resist! Cilia Flores, health, Legal System, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

Outrage is growing at the Trump regime keeping Cilia Flores behind bars as her heart condition worsens, the former president of the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Venezuela’s First Combatant was kidnapped by United States special forces on Jan. 3, along with her husband, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This grave crime against Venezuela’s sovereignty and international law was carried out on behalf of oil profits. Chevron and the rest of Big Oil want to steal the country’s 300 billion barrels of oil deposits. Over 100 Cuban and Venezuelan defenders were killed in the terrorist attack.

Journalist Under Prosecution Sues US Government For Seizing Materials

October 10, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Educate! Florida, Journalism, Legal System, Press Freedom

Journalist Tim Burke sued the United States government for allegedly violating the Privacy Protection Act (PPA) when the Justice Department obtained search warrants against him. The complaint against the government was filed on September 22, around a week after prosecutors notified the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida that it would seek a fresh indictment against Burke. Burke also submitted a motion on the same date, which alleged that the government had violated his Sixth Amendment right to due process. They asked the court to dismiss the charges with prejudice.

US Judge Denies Venezuela’s Cilia Flores Medical Bail

October 9, 2026 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Cilia Flores, health, Legal System, Nicolas Maduro, Prisoner rights, Venezuela

US federal judge Alvin Hellerstein has rejected a request for medical bail submitted by Venezuela’s First Lady and National Assembly Deputy Cilia Flores, keeping her imprisoned in New York despite her defense’s warnings about her deteriorating cardiac condition. Flores and President Nicolás Maduro have been held in the US empire since US troops kidnapped them during the January 3 military attack on Venezuela. Flores attended the hearing this Thursday, October 8, at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Her lawyers argued that she posed no flight risk under the stringent conditions they proposed.

Student Protests Erupt Over Mishandling Of Gang-Rape Allegations

October 6, 2026 Sam Levin, Keely Aouga and Edward Helmore, The Guardian. Resist! Accountability, Cornell, Fraternities, Higher Education, Legal System, Sexual Violence

Mass protests erupted at Cornell University on Monday, with students criticizing officials’ handling of gang-rape allegations, demanding the president’s resignation and painting “SMASH THE PATRIARCHY” on an administration building. Thousands of students and faculty gathered for a demonstration, sparked by the high-profile case of a former student known as Jane Doe, who said in a recent lawsuit that she was plied with drugs and raped at a fraternity house in 2024. The case has prompted international outrage and intense scrutiny of college fraternities and sexual violence on US campuses.

Senior US Prosecutor Leaves Case Against Kidnapped Maduro And Flores

October 4, 2026 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Cilia Flores, Kidnapping, Legal System, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Jason A. Richman, a senior US federal prosecutor who led the case against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady and National Assembly Deputy Cilia Flores, has left the New York prosecutor’s office. His departure comes as the defense challenges Washington’s authority to prosecute the Venezuelan head of state, kidnapped alongside Flores during the January 3 US military aggression. Richman served as co-chief of the National Security Unit at the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. According to Bloomberg Law, Manhattan US Attorney Jamie McDonald informed the court that Richman’s employment ended on September 25, 2026.

Protests Sweep India, Demand Removal Of Chief Election Commissioner

October 3, 2026 Abdul Rahman, BreakThrough News. Resist! Elections, India, Legal System, Mass Action

Nationwide protests have broken out in India this week seeking the removal of the country’s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) over allegations of irregularities in the electoral process during various state elections and the deliberate mass disenfranchisement in favor of the ultra-right-wing ruling dispensation. On Wednesday, September 30, thousands came out on the streets in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad in a joint demonstration called by the Left parties, the regional Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), and others, to defend voting rights.

British State Targets Palestine Action With Yet Another Crooked Trial

October 2, 2026 The Grayzone. Educate! Elbit, Legal System, Palestine Action, Terrorism Act, United Kingdom (UK)

From October 5th, an eight-week-long trial of nine Palestine Action activists known as the Instro 10 will begin at London’s Old Bailey. The defendants are accused of criminal damage, burglary – trespass including criminal damage – and violent disorder. In keeping with several recent cases brought against the activist collective, which the British state proscribed as a terrorist entity in July 2025, the jury and public are not allowed to know – and the British media is prohibited from reporting – that if activists are convicted of any offenses, they could be sentenced as terrorists. Palestine Action is a direct action protest group, which successfully forced four weapons plants run by the Israeli state-owned company Elbit Systems to close.

Ulm 5 Trial Dramatizes Germany’s Complicity With Israel’s Genocide

September 29, 2026 Hebh Jamal, Portside. Resist! Elbit, Genocide, Germany, Legal System, Palestine, weapons

Nearly fifty years after the infamous Red Army Faction trials, Germany’s maximum-security Stammheim Prison is once again the setting of a high-profile case that calls into question the conduct of the German state. This time, however, the defendants are five international pro-Palestinian activists charged with vandalizing a factory in the German city of Ulm owned by Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. On September 8, 2025, the five Berlin-based activists, now known as the Ulm 5, broke into Elbit’s facility and carried out acts of vandalism that they recorded using body cameras and posted online.

Labor, Civil Rights Groups Sue To Stop ICE At The Polls

September 28, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. Resist! ICE, Legal System, Unions, Voter Rights

Alarmed by reports that Republican President Donald Trump will send heavily armed and violent ICE agents to the polls nationwide—to act as they did when they rampaged through Minneapolis-St. Paul—a coalition of unions and civil rights groups wants federal judges to ban the deployments. In a 65-page brief filed in U.S. District Court in D.C., the Teachers/AFT, the Service Employees, the Painters, the United Food and Commercial Workers, the NAACP, the Brennan Center for Justice, the Urban League and their allies declare that the purpose of the deployments is to intimidate and prevent voters, especially voters of color, from casting their ballots on November 3.

These Secret Subpoenas Are Targeting Journalists

September 28, 2026 Caitlin Vogus, Freedom of the Press Foundation. Strategize! Know Your Rights, Legal System, Media, Press Freedom, State Repression

The government shouldn’t be able to secretly demand a journalist’s phone records without a judge or the journalist ever seeing the request. But that’s exactly what happened to Georgia Fort and Don Lemon. Fort and Lemon, who are being criminally prosecuted in a legally dubious case for their coverage of a protest against immigration authorities at a Minnesota church, recently revealed that the government sought information from Google and their phone companies about their accounts, and asked the companies to keep the demands secret.

Iranian American Organization Sues Trump To Demand End To War

September 26, 2026 Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. Resist! Congress, Iran, Legal System, Wars and Militarism

The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) has filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ongoing war on Iran. The organization filed the complaint on Thursday, asking a court to halt the U.S.’s military action against Iran and to declare the U.S.’s war on Iran unconstitutional. The lawsuit argues that Trump violated the Constitution’s war powers checks, and that the war continues to harm Iranian Americans, including those represented by the organization. Since the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran in February, “at least 3,600 Iranians have been killed, at least 18 U.S. servicemembers have lost their lives...

Kingston’s Quiet Rent Revolution

September 22, 2026 Thomas Birmingham, In These Times. Resist! Legal System, New York (NY), Tenant Rights, Tenant Union

Kingston, N.Y. — On September 1, John and Gail Bechtold tore open their monthly rent statement, hoping their landlord had finally given in and fixed it. But those same four numbers stared back at them: $1,700. It was the 39th month in a row that Opus Management Group overcharged the Bechtolds by $221.74 for their apartment in the Dutch Village (or, as Gail calls it, Dump Village) complex in Kingston. According to a state housing agency ruling, Opus owes the Bechtolds, both retirees in their 80s, well over $10,000. Whether they can get that money back, however, is a question whose answer will likely reverberate throughout the tenant movement.

US Court To Review Venezuela’s First Lady’s Release Request On October 8

September 21, 2026 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Cilia Flores, health, Legal System, Prisoner rights

US colonial federal judge, Alvin Hellerstein, has scheduled a hearing for October 8 to consider the pretrial release request filed by Venezuela’s First Lady and National Assembly Deputy Cilia Flores, according to Document 330 in the Southern District of New York case docket. The hearing will begin at 10:30 a.m. New York time. The scheduling order, filed this Wednesday, September 16, endorses a briefing schedule submitted by Flores’ attorneys at Parker Sánchez & Donnelly following consultations with US prosecutors. The US imperial government must file its response opposing or addressing the request by September 23, while the defense will have until September 30 to submit its reply.

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