Richard Lee, who relied on marijuana to ease his pain after a paralyzing work accident, only to blossom into “the Johnny Appleseed of pot” — the founder of a groundbreaking cannabis college and one of the country’s most influential legalization activists — died on July 27 in Houston. He was 62. His death, in a…
A former porn actor and gay rights activist will be Colombia’s new equality minister, a government source told AFP Friday. Juan Carlos Florian is to be named to the cabinet, an official said, in a move sure to spark debate in the deeply Catholic nation. Florian, who was a sex worker and creator of gay…
Prominent Palestinian activist Odeh Hathalin, who had worked on the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land”, was shot and killed on Monday in the village of Umm al-Khair in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The attack, reportedly carried out by Israeli settler Yinon Levi, was captured on video by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who co-directed the film….
Noor Abdalla, the wife of jailed Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, has announced the birth of their son. On Monday evening, Noor released an statement saying, “I welcomed our son into the world earlier today without Mahmoud by my side. Despite our request for ICE to allow Mahmoud to attend the birth,…
Mohsen Mahdawi, an organizer of pro-Palestinian demonstrations last year at Columbia University, was detained by immigration officials on Monday after arriving for an appointment in Vermont that he thought was a step toward becoming a U.S. citizen, his lawyers said. Hours later, Mr. Mahdawi’s mother, older sister and lawyers were scrambling to find him after…
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The University of Minnesota graduate student who was detained by immigration agents last week had not participated in campus activism or been outspoken about political issues, according to a lawsuit he filed on Sunday in federal court challenging the legality of his arrest. Instead, the issue that appears to have put the student, Dogukan Gunaydin,…
ISLAMABAD: A shutters-down strike gripped Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province on Saturday as clashes between protesters and security forces rocked Quetta, the provincial capital, leaving at least three dead and several injured.The unrest erupted after the arrest of Dr Mahrang Baloch, the defiant face of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), an ethnic rights group, and…
The Trump administration moved early Friday to detain an international student at Cornell University who has led protests on its Ithaca, N.Y., campus, in what appeared to be the latest effort to kick pro-Palestinian activists out of the United States. A lawyer for Momodou Taal, a doctoral student in Africana studies, said in court papers…
BATHINDA/PATIALA: Punjab Police on Wednesday detained fasting farmer activist Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha head Sarvan Singh Pandher as well as other prominent agitators in Mohali when they were returning after attending a meeting with a central govt delegation in Chandigarh and also evicted protesting farmers from the Shambhu and Khanauri borders.The evictions…