by Jeremy Busby | Feb 20, 2026 | ICE, immigration, immigration jails, Jails, Journalism, Journalists, Mario Guevara, moral panic, Op-Ed, Prisons, Rümeysa Öztürk, Sami Hamdi, Trump Administration
For decades, corporate media and elected officials have shown little interest in reporting by incarcerated individuals on the unchecked inhumane treatment and deplorable conditions inside U.S. jails, detention centers, and prisons. But as a result of the Trump administration’s escalation of anti-immigrant violence and efforts to quell all dissent, professional journalists and writers…
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by Julia Conley | Nov 11, 2025 | far right, Gaza, ICE, Israel, News, Palestine, press freedom, Sami Hamdi, Trump Administration
A leading Muslim civil rights group in the US applauded Monday as the Trump administration’s agreement to release British pro-Palestinian commentator Sami Hamdi acknowledged that he is not “a danger to the community or to national security,” after he was held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention for more than two weeks. Hamdi’s family and the California chapter of the Council on…
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by Chris Walker | Nov 6, 2025 | Department of Homeland Security, free speech, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kristi Noem, News, Sami Hamdi, Soumaya Hamdi
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) taunted the wife of a British journalist who is being detained by immigration agents on social media on Wednesday, after she publicly urged her husband’s release and warned that he was suffering a health emergency in custody. U.K. journalist Sami Hamdi, a 35-year-old father of three and outspoken critic of Israel’s genocide in Gaza…
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