Muhammad Rabbani of Cage faces possible imprisonment for refusing to give the UK border thugs the password for his laptop.

Cage campaigns against torture and unjust imprisonment in various countries including the US. The laptop contained privileged legal work product that he had no right to reveal to anyone. Now Rabbani is threatened with unjust imprisonment, unless Cage succeeds in overturning that law.

US border thugs are gratuitously cruel to refugees, for instance throwing all their medicine in the trash, and the troll is pushing them to be more cruel.

The NSA made the wave of ransomware attacks possible by perpetuating vulnerabilities rather than fixing them.

Barrett Brown was released from prison, then arrested (the thugs claimed he wasn't allowed to give interviews to the press), then freed a few days later (perhaps because legally he is allowed to give interviews to the press). Here is his interview with Democracy Now.

He talks about the way the US government helps plutocrats get private surveillance assistance from companies such as Palantir.

Activists on behalf of gay rights tried to deliver a petition to the Russian state. The state not only didn't accept the petition, it arrested them instead.