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Dozens of Israeli soldiers leave Sde Teiman base after dispute with commanders: Report

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The Sde Teiman detention center in Kfar Yona, Israel on July 30, 2024. [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency]

Dozens of Israeli soldiers left the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel on Thursday following a dispute with senior commanders, the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported, Anadolu reports.

The soldiers are members of the Sabar Battalion of the Givati Brigade, according to the report.

“According to sources in the Givati Brigade, the command staff decided to remove and destroy symbols displayed by the battalion’s companies,” the newspaper said.

It said the battalion commander insisted on carrying out the decision despite opposition from the soldiers.

“One of the commanders used a five-kilogram sledgehammer to destroy one of the symbols,” a soldier serving in the unit told Israeli news website Walla.

READ: Israeli army suicides rise again as two female soldiers die, bringing this year’s total to 16

When the two sides failed to reach an agreement, the soldiers left the unit and walked out of the base, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Sde Teiman, a military base in Israel’s Negev Desert, has been the subject of repeated allegations of abuse against Palestinians detained from the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian and Israeli media outlets, as well as rights groups, have documented beatings, prolonged restraint, medical neglect, and deaths in custody at the facility. The base has drawn comparisons to the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

According to Palestinian rights groups, more than 9,600 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons, including around 350 children and 84 women, amid continued reports of torture, medical neglect, and ill-treatment.

READ: Israeli soldier charged with contacting alleged Iranian intelligence operative

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End ‘cruel experiment’ of IPP sentences, urge experts as they make landmark proposals

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LANDMARK new proposals to end the “cruel experiment” of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) jail terms were due to be launched at the House of Lords today.

An expert panel convened by the Howard League for Penal Reform urged the government to take “long overdue” action to given prisoners left trapped in jail for up to 20 years for minor offences a release date.

IPP sentences were abolished in 2012, but not retrospectively, meaning thousands who were serving them at the time remain in prison today. 

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The panel proposed that every IPP prisoner is given a release date at their next review by the Parole Board within a two-year window, with plans to prepare them to be safely freed.

They also called for decisions to recall IPP prisoners to be only made as a last resort and that mental health aftercare support is provided for every released IPP prisoner.

The Ministry of Justice said: “It is right that IPP sentences were abolished, and we will carefully consider the recommendations in this report.

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Original article at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/end-cruel-experiment-ipp-sentences-urge-experts-they-make-landmark-proposals

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Concern over asbis after report finds people jailed for sleeping rough and feeding birds

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‘People might have a lot of issues that need to be dealt with, but they’re not dealt with by sending them to prison.’ Photograph: Alex Segre/Alamy

Exclusive: Analysis of antisocial behaviour injunctions found 57% of people had no legal representation at breach hearings that led to imprisonment

Almost 250 people have been imprisoned for breaching antisocial behaviour injunctions (asbis) since 2020, with people being jailed for sleeping rough, begging, feeding birds and making a noise.

Analysis from academics at the universities of York and Coventry found that out of 242 cases examined from 2020-2024, there were 72 cases of imprisonment for general nuisance, 61 for abusive language and 51 for noise.

They found that 57% of people did not have legal representation at the breach hearing that led to their imprisonment: out of 97 recorded cases, 55 defendants were not represented.

“People are not getting proper representation and they get sent to prison for sometimes long periods, weeks and months. There’s no sentencing guidance for this,” said Prof Caroline Hunter from York Law School. “People might have a lot of issues that need to be dealt with, but they’re not dealt with by sending them to prison.”

An asbi is a civil injunction used to tackle antisocial behaviour, and can be issued to anyone age 10 or over. Breaching an injunction is not a criminal offence, but those who disobey an order are guilty of contempt of court and can be sent to prison.

Civil injunctions are also used in cases involving protesters, and land disputes involving Gypsies and Travellers.

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Housing associations accounted for 45% of the asbis where someone was committed for sentence, while local authorities accounted for 41%.

The analysis found people were imprisoned for an average of 95 days for breaches, with Gypsy and Traveller cases disproportionately more likely to receive a higher sentence – 70% of those cases were in the highest quartile for sentencing, compared with 24% of antisocial behaviour cases.

The reports raised concerns about people being imprisoned even where there was no evidence of harm or inconvenience caused.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “New Respect Orders will give police and councils the powers they need to clamp down on persistent antisocial behaviour and to place tough restrictions on the worst offenders.”

Original article at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/21/concern-over-asbis-after-report-finds-people-jailed-for-sleeping-rough-and-feeding-birds

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Trump White House Mocks Abrego Garcia—and Provides ‘More Evidence of Contempt’ of Court

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Original article by Julia Conley republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) meets with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (L) at an undisclosed location on April 17, 2025 in San Salvador, El Salvador. 
(Photo: Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s Office via Getty Images)

“Whoever thought this was cute at the time may be less giddy when this becomes evidence of intent to disobey a court order,” said one legal expert of a social media post from the White House.

The White House’s public response on Friday to an image of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father who the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador last month, was to mock the migrant and the U.S. senator who successfully urged Salvadoran President Nayim Bukele to allow a visit with him—and critics said officials may come to regret that decision.

“I suspect this is going to show up in a variety of court pleadings,” said former U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, who is now a law professor. “Whoever thought this was cute at the time may be less giddy when this becomes evidence of intent to disobey a court order.”

White Vance was among those who responded to a social media post from the White House’s official account on the platform X, in which it displayed the New York Times cover story featuring an image of Abrego Garcia and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) at their meeting on Thursday.

The story headline read, “Senator Meets With Wrongly Deported Maryland Man in El Salvador”—but the White House crossed out the word “wrongly,” replaced “Maryland Man” with “MS-13 Illegal Alien,” and scrawled, “who’s never coming back” on the article about the father and sheet metal worker.

The digital graffiti was shared with the White House’s 1.6 million followers even though, as software engineer and writer Lakshya Jain said, “the White House admitted in court that they deported the wrong guy.”

Journalist David Leavitt added that the White House had given a federal court “more evidence of contempt,” two days after Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. warned that there was “probable cause… to find the government in criminal contempt”—punishable by fines or prison time.

Boasberg ordered the administration last month to turn around two planes that were carrying migrants to El Salvador to be imprisoned at Bukele’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) under a $6 million deal. The White House disobeyed the order.

The administration has also flouted the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling last week that found the White House must facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States. Officials have admitted he was sent to El Salvador due to an “administrative error.” Although officials including Vice President JD Vance have called him a “convicted” gang member and Bukele repeatedly called him a “terrorist” in the White House earlier this week, Abrego Garcia has not been convicted of any crimes. He was also protected by a 2019 court order which found he had a credible fear of persecution if he were deported to El Salvador.

Washington Post senior political reporter Aaron Blake said that by saying Abrego Garcia is “never coming back,” the White House was “basically taunting” the Supreme Court.

Attorney Aaron Regunberg added that White House officials were “explicitly declaring they will violate a unanimous Supreme Court order,” and reminded Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) of his earlier remarks that such defiance from President Donald Trump would trigger “extraordinary action.”

“So… where the fuck are you?” asked Regunberg Schumer.

At a press conference following his return to the U.S., flanked by Abrego Garcia’s wife, Van Hollen—who was widely praised this week for taking concrete action to advocate for his constituent—on Friday accused the Trump administration of “lying about this case from the beginning.”

“They’ve been trying to change the subject from the beginning,” said Van Hollen. “As I’ve said, and the courts have said—from the Supreme Court to the 4th Circuit, to the District Court—what this is about is adhering to the Constitution, to the right of due process. And that’s why we say: ‘Bring Kilmar home,’ so he can be afforded his rights under the Constitution. That’s what this is about.”

Original article by Julia Conley republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

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Outcry as White House Admits to Sending Maryland Man to El Salvador Prison ‘In Error’

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Original article by Julia Conley republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

More than 250 people arrive in San Salvador, El Salvador by plane after being detained and deported by the Trump administration, without officials verifying that they were members of violent gangs as they claimed, on March 16, 2025. (Photo: El Salvador Presidency/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“If Trump can disappear Abrego Garcia, he can disappear you,” warned one advocate. “This is why due process matters. Without it, America slides into dictatorship.”

“This is the precedent Trump needs to send you to a concentration camp,” said one advocate for due process rights as President Donald Trump’s administration claimed it had made an “administrative error” in sending a Maryland father to a prison in his home country of El Salvador—leaving the federal government with no way of bringing him back to his children and wife, a U.S. citizen.

In a court filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, an acting field office director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Robert L. Cerna, told Judge Paula Xinis that the removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on March 15 “was in error.” Abrego Garcia was one of hundreds of people rounded up by the Trump administration and sent to a “Terrorism Confinement Center” in El Salvador, with the White House invoking the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II and claiming many were members of gangs including MS-13 and Tren de Aragua.

Cerna’s filing reveals the result of a mass expulsion operation in which hundreds of people were afforded no due process rights in violation of the U.S. Constitution: At least one person with legal protected status in the United States who was not convicted of a crime is now imprisoned in a country where a U.S. federal court had previously found he could face persecution and torture.

As Joshua Eakle of Project Liberal warned, Abrego Garcia’s detention and the administration’s claim that it can do nothing to help him also creates precedent for Trump to do the same to anyone else it sees fit to target.

“This is how it starts. You must pay attention,” said Eakle. “If Trump can disappear Abrego Garcia, he can disappear you. If Trump can strip his rights with no accountability, he can do it to anyone. This is why due process matters. Without it, America slides into dictatorship.”

As the news spread of Abrego Garcia’s mistaken expulsion, Vice President JD Vance “smeared him as a ‘convicted gang member,'” claiming to cite the court filing from Monday, and accused podcast host Jon Favreau of having sympathy for “gang members getting deported while ignoring citizens they victimize.”

Cerna’s filing states that Abrego Garcia was denied bond in 2019 because “the evidence show[ed] that he is a verified member of [Mara Salvatrucha] (‘MS-13’)]” and therefore posed a danger to the community.” As Kyle Cheney wrote at Politico, the accusation was “sharply contested” by Abrego Garcia and “credited to information gleaned from a confidential informant.”

“That’s not a conviction,” said Cheney.

The 2019 court filing regarding the bond denial notes that Abrego Garcia “has no criminal conviction” and that the government erroneously stated at the time that Abrego Garcia was “detained in connection to a murder investigation.”

Further, noted Cheney, the court at the time found that Abrego Garcia was likely a member of MS-13, but that he had a credible fear of persecution in his home country of El Salvador and should not be deported there—or expelled via an operation like Trump’s mass expulsion campaign, in which those sent overseas have not been afforded due process.

Vance’s claim that Abrego Garcia is a “convicted gang member” was “a lie,” said Krystal Ball of the online news show “Breaking Points.”

“But JD’s comment reveals his deportation was not really a ‘mistake,'” she said. “They put whoever they could round up on those planes without regard for guilt, innocence, immigration status, or court orders. If this man can be permanently disappeared into a foreign dungeon, anyone can.”

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council said it was “shocking that the vice president of the United States would so callously, and so falsely, accuse someone of being a convicted gang member. It’s especially bad when his own administration just admitted to illegally deporting that person due to ‘administrative error.'”

Trump’s Justice Department is now urging Xinis to reject a petition filed by Abrego Garcia’s attorneys to secure his return to the U.S., saying that since the Maryland resident is now in custody in his home country, the administration and the court system can’t force El Salvador to return him.

“People should go to prison over this,” said Paul Blest, a reporter for More Perfect Union.

Antonio De Loera-Brust, communications director for United Farm Workers, suggested the Trump administration is now refusing to push for Abrego Garcia or other potentially innocent people who have been expelled from the U.S. “because then they will be able to speak for themselves and the full extent of this atrocity will become clear.”

Shannon Watts, founder of the gun violence prevention group Moms Demand Action, called on the Democratic Party to ensure the administration can’t ignore the demand for Abrego Garcia’s release.

“I don’t care what the polls say about immigration, this is a legal assault on the Constitution and humanity,” said Watts. “Democratic leaders must publicly pressure the Trump administration to rescue Kilmar Abrego Garcia.”

Original article by Julia Conley republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

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