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If a person is behaving aggressively or provocatively or if there is any risk, especially if he is from the category of former prisoners, you need to let us know. We will send our recruiting group, carefully collect him and send him back to the front, to the place where he should take out his aggression. – Yevgeny Prigozhin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are far too many people in Saudi detention who don’t have the benefit of US citizenship to draw attention to their cases. Almadi was wrongfully detained, reportedly tortured, and released only after tireless campaigning by his son and international pressure, almadi’s release shows that strategic pressure works, and US officials should continue to press for release of prisoners and lifting of travel bans. – Abdullah Alaoudh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Here were conditions for a mutual ceasefire, a civilized surrender of Azovstal, civilized conditions for our prisoners of war, and an exchange. – Oleksandr Kovalov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Although this is a very technical ruling, its basic gist is that state supreme courts can’t rely upon novel state procedural rules to prevent state prisoners from bringing federal constitutional claims, (John) Cruz may or may not prevail on his federal claim – that he had a right to have the jury know that a life sentence would be without parole. But he now gets to make that argument in the first place. – Steve Vladeck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m interested in the ethical drift, I’m in interested in the desensitization of both the prisoners and the guards and the world, that’s the town I’m from. So it has, it leaves an impact and we just dive into it. – Hugh Dillon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The widespread consensus among mental health professionals is that solitary confinement, for the overall majority of mentally ill prisoners, places them at severe risk of additional harm. – Craig Haney	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People have to structure their lives around the absence of other human beings, they [prisoners in solitary confinement] go for years on end without touching anyone with affection. – Craig Haney	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is a scenario that is repeated every year. And I don’t want to give myself any false hopes that they are going to release people. I want to have the hope that they will release either one or 10,000 political prisoners, any release I’d be very happy with, and that’s my hope. – Nasrin Sotoudeh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There were more dead bodies, and more, and more, people coming in. In the end I had a lot of people under my command, i could n’t count how many. They were in constant circulation. Dead bodies, more prisoners, more dead bodies, more prisoners. – Andrei Medvedev	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The state has some strange policies: prisoners go to war, and children go to prison. – Natalya Krivtsova Olesya Krivtsova	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It had to pass two general assemblies, and now it's gotta be on the ballot and people don't really understand what they're talking about, it's been in our constitution since 1870, and it wasn't talking about slavery like people think about slavery. It was the wording. They were talking about prisoners and we still, you know, confine prisoners. It's not slavery, but it is confining prisoners and that's what it was talking about. – Joey Hensley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
You watched what happened in Afghanistan, that botched action. Why did we close Bagram’s base? Why did we allow those prisoners to get out? Why would we even close in the summer and withdraw? Why would we withdraw without bringing out all the Americans first? All of these decisions should actually be investigated, so they don't get repeated. – House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The Myanmar military junta's unjust conviction and sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi is part of its methodical assault on human rights around the country, the military's willingness to forcibly disappear the country's high-profile civilian leader reveals the brutality that lesser-known political prisoners face. – Elaine Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The military's willingness to forcibly disappear the country's high-profile civilian leader reveals the brutality that lesser-known political prisoners face. – Elaine Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In the last three weeks [ in July ], there is a very big wave of this project to recruit thousands of Russian prisoners and send them to the war. – Vladimir Osechkin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Hong Kong currently has more than 1,000 political prisoners, in addition to a justice system destroyed by the evil national security law, as well as the total annihilation of free press and democratic society. – Ted Hui	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's usually difficult, if not impossible, to show that your lawyer was ineffective without introducing new evidence, since that ineffectiveness often turns on evidence that wasn't introduced, but today's decision makes it impossible for prisoners to rely upon new evidence to prove that the lawyer representing them in state post-conviction proceedings was ineffective. – Steve Vladeck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The court's decision effectively closes the federal courts to many prisoners with extremely serious constitutional ineffective trial counsel claims simply because they were unlucky enough to have incompetent lawyers at every stage of state court proceedings. – Robert Loeb	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's hard to overstate how significant this technical ruling is for state prisoners trying to argue that they haven't received the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by The Sixth Amendment, it's usually difficult, if not impossible, to show that your lawyer was ineffective without introducing new evidence, since that ineffectiveness often turns on evidence that wasn't introduced. – Steve Vladeck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And even if they don't receive some type of exchange for those prisoners, they will do that anyway just out of pure malice just to show United States that,' We took your citizens.'. – Trevor Reed in a CNN	Found on CNN 1 year ago
United States went out and made the ethical decision to exchange prisoners to get their innocent Americans out of that country, even while exchanging them for someone who's more high profile and valuable in the United States. – Trevor Reed in a CNN	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I wish you the best of luck from the bottom of my heart, and I hope that no one ever has to go through what we former prisoners experienced. – Boris Romantschenko	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Our military is succeeding there -- yesterday they defeated another attempt at an armored breakthrough in Mariupol, took prisoners of war, but for this the Russians are wiping the city out. – Oleksiy Arestovych	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is yet another example of the illegal, cynical and barbaric acts perpetrated by the Russian armed forces in the context of their reckless and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, we call on the Russian military authorities to Ivan Fedorov immediately and to ensure that Ivan Fedorov health and safety is preserved. We urge the Russian authorities to fully respect the Geneva Conventions on combatants and non-combatant civilians and prisoners of war, as well as all relevant provisions of International Humanitarian Law. – Ukrainian Parliament	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

If a person is behaving aggressively or provocatively or if there is any risk, especially if he is from the category of former prisoners, you need to let us know. We will send our recruiting group, carefully collect him and send him back to the front, to the place where he should take out his aggression.

– Yevgeny Prigozhin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are far too many people in Saudi detention who don’t have the benefit of US citizenship to draw attention to their cases. Almadi was wrongfully detained, reportedly tortured, and released only after tireless campaigning by his son and international pressure, almadi’s release shows that strategic pressure works, and US officials should continue to press for release of prisoners and lifting of travel bans.

– Abdullah Alaoudh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Here were conditions for a mutual ceasefire, a civilized surrender of Azovstal, civilized conditions for our prisoners of war, and an exchange.

– Oleksandr Kovalov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Although this is a very technical ruling, its basic gist is that state supreme courts can’t rely upon novel state procedural rules to prevent state prisoners from bringing federal constitutional claims, (John) Cruz may or may not prevail on his federal claim – that he had a right to have the jury know that a life sentence would be without parole. But he now gets to make that argument in the first place.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m interested in the ethical drift, I’m in interested in the desensitization of both the prisoners and the guards and the world, that’s the town I’m from. So it has, it leaves an impact and we just dive into it.

– Hugh Dillon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The widespread consensus among mental health professionals is that solitary confinement, for the overall majority of mentally ill prisoners, places them at severe risk of additional harm.

– Craig Haney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People have to structure their lives around the absence of other human beings, they [prisoners in solitary confinement] go for years on end without touching anyone with affection.

– Craig Haney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a scenario that is repeated every year. And I don’t want to give myself any false hopes that they are going to release people. I want to have the hope that they will release either one or 10,000 political prisoners, any release I’d be very happy with, and that’s my hope.

– Nasrin Sotoudeh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There were more dead bodies, and more, and more, people coming in. In the end I had a lot of people under my command, i could n’t count how many. They were in constant circulation. Dead bodies, more prisoners, more dead bodies, more prisoners.

– Andrei Medvedev

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The state has some strange policies: prisoners go to war, and children go to prison.

– Natalya Krivtsova Olesya Krivtsova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It had to pass two general assemblies, and now it's gotta be on the ballot and people don't really understand what they're talking about, it's been in our constitution since 1870, and it wasn't talking about slavery like people think about slavery. It was the wording. They were talking about prisoners and we still, you know, confine prisoners. It's not slavery, but it is confining prisoners and that's what it was talking about.

– Joey Hensley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You watched what happened in Afghanistan, that botched action. Why did we close Bagram’s base? Why did we allow those prisoners to get out? Why would we even close in the summer and withdraw? Why would we withdraw without bringing out all the Americans first? All of these decisions should actually be investigated, so they don't get repeated.

– House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Myanmar military junta's unjust conviction and sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi is part of its methodical assault on human rights around the country, the military's willingness to forcibly disappear the country's high-profile civilian leader reveals the brutality that lesser-known political prisoners face.

– Elaine Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The military's willingness to forcibly disappear the country's high-profile civilian leader reveals the brutality that lesser-known political prisoners face.

– Elaine Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the last three weeks [ in July ], there is a very big wave of this project to recruit thousands of Russian prisoners and send them to the war.

– Vladimir Osechkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hong Kong currently has more than 1,000 political prisoners, in addition to a justice system destroyed by the evil national security law, as well as the total annihilation of free press and democratic society.

– Ted Hui

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's usually difficult, if not impossible, to show that your lawyer was ineffective without introducing new evidence, since that ineffectiveness often turns on evidence that wasn't introduced, but today's decision makes it impossible for prisoners to rely upon new evidence to prove that the lawyer representing them in state post-conviction proceedings was ineffective.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The court's decision effectively closes the federal courts to many prisoners with extremely serious constitutional ineffective trial counsel claims simply because they were unlucky enough to have incompetent lawyers at every stage of state court proceedings.

– Robert Loeb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's hard to overstate how significant this technical ruling is for state prisoners trying to argue that they haven't received the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by The Sixth Amendment, it's usually difficult, if not impossible, to show that your lawyer was ineffective without introducing new evidence, since that ineffectiveness often turns on evidence that wasn't introduced.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And even if they don't receive some type of exchange for those prisoners, they will do that anyway just out of pure malice just to show United States that,' We took your citizens.'.

– Trevor Reed in a CNN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

United States went out and made the ethical decision to exchange prisoners to get their innocent Americans out of that country, even while exchanging them for someone who's more high profile and valuable in the United States.

– Trevor Reed in a CNN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wish you the best of luck from the bottom of my heart, and I hope that no one ever has to go through what we former prisoners experienced.

– Boris Romantschenko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our military is succeeding there -- yesterday they defeated another attempt at an armored breakthrough in Mariupol, took prisoners of war, but for this the Russians are wiping the city out.

– Oleksiy Arestovych

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is yet another example of the illegal, cynical and barbaric acts perpetrated by the Russian armed forces in the context of their reckless and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, we call on the Russian military authorities to Ivan Fedorov immediately and to ensure that Ivan Fedorov health and safety is preserved. We urge the Russian authorities to fully respect the Geneva Conventions on combatants and non-combatant civilians and prisoners of war, as well as all relevant provisions of International Humanitarian Law.

– Ukrainian Parliament

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

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