Australian thugs imprisoning an Iranian refugee (whose husband recently set himself on fire and died) are acting like kidnapers, threatening to punish her if she looks out the window since she might be seen. When she cries, they inject her with sedatives.

They are trying to bully her into going back to Iran, where she faces a danger of persecution.

Apparently Australia's policy for keeping refugees away is to threaten them with worse persecution than what they are fleeing from.

Chelsea Manning describes her horrible solitary confinement, in which she was constantly watched and forbidden to lie down or sit against the wall for 17 hours each day.

Trump, the union buster.

What Trump says doesn't mean much, but we can get an idea of how he wants to treat workers from the way he treats the workers in his hotel.

Some European countries have isolated jihadi prisoners to stop them from spreading their ideology to other prisoners.

Isolation from other prisoners does not have to mean isolation from everyone. In principle, this does not have to be solitary confinement — it could be like the prison Anders Breivik is in (which seems acceptable to me). In practice, it tends to be almost solitary confinement.

Turkish Journalists Accuse Erdoğan of Media Witch-Hunt.