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Every 15 August, the entire country of Italy seems to be on a break. Across the Mediterranean country, shutters on stores, bars, and restaurants are padlocked and adorned with the orange “closed for holiday” signs. In all neighbourhoods except the ones popular with tourists, you can encounter nothing but the proverbial tumbleweeds. It’s Ferragosto, the hallowed holiday Italians will readily say recalls Roman times — a celebration emperor Augustus bestowed on his people, including slaves, as a reward for a season of hard work in the fields. In Italy today, celebrating Ferragosto by spending the...
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The Kremlin declined to comment on reports of an imminent Russia-US prisoner swap as speculation over the swap between Russia and Belarus, the United States, Slovenia, and Germany has grown. A Kremlin spokesman was asked whether a potential prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States was set to begin imminently and if US citizens Paul Whelan Evan Gershkovich are on the list for the exchange. Dmitry Peskov, press secretary for Russian President Vladimir Putin, responded, "No, I still don`t have any comments on this topic". A Russian government plane that was used previously to exchan...
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A Spanish court handed an 18-year prison sentence on Tuesday to a man found guilty of sending six parcels containing explosives to Spain’s prime minister and other government, military and diplomatic targets, including the US and Ukrainian embassies. The 76-year-old Pompeyo González Pascual received 10 years for committing acts of terrorism and eight years for the manufacturing and use of illegal explosives for terrorist purposes. The National Court judges deemed that the man acted “with the goal of … pressuring the Spanish and American governments … into giving up their support of Ukraine in ...
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Climate protesters behind the 2022 shutdown of a major UK motorway have been sentenced to a collective 21 years in prison. Four activists who planned the protest were sentenced to four years behind bars on Thursday while one was given a record five years. The sentences were the harshest terms handed down for a peaceful protest in England, according to Just Stop Oil, the activist group that staged the demonstration. The M25 protest caused gridlock and blocked traffic over four days on a major highway circling London. The group’s disruptive tactics \- from tossing tomato soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunf...
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted this week to lower the cost of keeping in touch with the incarcerated. "The Federal Communications Commission today voted to end exorbitant phone and video call rates that have burdened incarcerated people and their families for decades," the agency announced in a Thursday press release. "The new call rates will be $0.06 per minute for prisons and large jails, $0.07 for medium jails, $0.09 for small jails, and $0.12 for very small jails, and as low as $0.11/minute for video calls—with a requirement that per-minute rates be offered." As a result...
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As well as showcasing spectacular and startling contemporary art, the Venice Biennale is an opportunity to gain access to some of its rarely opened buildings. This year, the Vatican’s pavilion can claim the accolade of most unusual location. If you’ve already visited the canal city, it's still highly unlikely you’ve entered this building - the Holy See’s exhibition is housed in Venice’s women’s prison. In a sense, the Vatican’s pavilion is a piece of months-long performance art in which the visitor is a participant. The experience is about far more than the art on the walls - it’s about the in...
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French artist JR has a documentary out in French cinemas, and in it, we are invited to witness the hopes and regrets of the inmates of the maximum security prison based in Tehachapi, California. Tehachapi walks us through a series of projects organised by JR, an artist whose work combines photography, collage and video. With its behind-the-scenes approach, the documentary relates how the austere prison courtyard becomes an ephemeral canvas for the inmates. JR’s team collaborated with inmates and guards to use its signature technique of flyposting to create a giant portrait of 40 men. The artis...
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A court in Moscow on Friday ordered a French citizen accused of collecting information on military issues in Russia be held in jail pending investigation and trial. Laurent Vinatier was arrested in the Russian capital on Thursday as tensions have flared between Moscow and Paris following French President Emmanuel Macron’s statements about the possibility of deploying the country’s troops in Ukraine. The authorities accused Vinatier of failing to register as a “foreign agent” while collecting information about Russia's "military and military-technical activities," which could be used to the det...
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It was impossible to avoid the "strange bedfellows" cliché when reading about the criminal justice reform movement in the 2010s. Conservatives and evangelicals worked alongside bleeding-heart liberals and civil libertarians to fix what they all (at the time) agreed were unjust prison sentences and punitive policies. Fast-forward a decade, and the bipartisan sleepovers are over. Most of the same advocate groups are still lobbying for reform—and notching victories in some states—but the broad-based path for criminal justice reform bills has narrowed or altogether disappeared in other places. Cla...
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