Ahed Tamimi Sentenced to 8 Months Under Plea Bargain,claims ‘no justice’ after ruling

‘No Justice Under Occupation:’ Ahed Tamimi Sentenced to 8 Months Under Plea Bargain She was arrested in December after a video showing her slapping an Israeli soldier went viral. Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi and her mother Nariman were sentenced to eight months in prison and a US$1,500 fine as their legal team accepted a plea bargain with military …

Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain and the Gendering of Martyrdom

In the same season we’ve been presented with two different comprehensive documentaries of two of our most iconic and tragic, gone-too-soon figures in recent decades. Brett Morgan’s Montage of Heck depicts the slow unraveling of Kurt Cobain in the preamble to his suicide, Asif Kapadia’s Amydepicts a corollary narrative about Amy Winehouse’s life, and in …

Pakistani rights activist Sabeen Mahmud shot dead

Karachi, PAKISTAN – Sabeen Mahmud, a prominent Pakistani social and human rights activist, has been shot dead, shortly after hosting an event on Balochistan’s “disappeared people”, in the southern city of Karachi, officials have told Al Jazeera. Mahmud, 40, was the director of T2F [The Second Floor], a café and arts space that has been …

Dr. Maria Piniou-Kalli, founder of Greek torture rehabilitation centre, passes away

Dr. Maria Piniou-Kalli, founder and Director of the Medical Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims (MRCT), in Athens, Greece and President of the IRCT from 1998 to 2003, passed away yesterday, 26 January 2015. Sentenced by the Greek Junta (1967-1974) to internal exile and imprisonment at Gyaros Island prison for her anti-dictatorial views, she served as …