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Statement from Project South’s Legal & Advocacy Director @ashahshahani on the recent death of Luis Sandoval at the Folkston ICE Processing Center in Georgia:
Project South's Azadeh Shahshahani is quoted on the recent death at the Folkston, Ga. ICE detention center: “We call for an immediate independent investigation into this tragic death and for accountability. Folkston must be shut down immediately.”
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Instead of releasing migrants from this awful prison, ICE and the prison corporation retaliated against them through solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, medical neglect, and further abusive treatment. Hunger strikers are now allegedly being threatened with force-feeding.
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This is the same ICE prison where migrants launched a mass hunger strike to protest prolonged detention and abysmal conditions including moldy food and threats and intimidation by the guards.
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We call for an immediate independent investigation into this tragic death and for accountability. Folkston must be shut down immediately.
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Another tragedy at an ICE prison in Georgia. 48-year-old Luis Sandoval has died while detained at the Folkston ICE Processing Center.
This was a preventable tragedy. We hold ICE and the private prison corporation fully responsible for any harm that migrants suffer at Folkston.
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"We call for an immediate independent investigation into this tragic death and for accountability. Folkston must be shut down immediately," said @ashahshahani of @ProjectSouth. commondreams.org/news/60th-d…
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Honored to visit the University of Texas School of Law in October as the G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence! law.utexas.edu/publicinteres…
Here's the info re my public lecture on October 13th. If you're in the area, please join us (Registration QR code on the flyer).
📢 @ProjectSouth and Other Advocate Groups Send Letter to ICE Condemning Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers at Folkston. We continue to hear troubling reports of retaliation against detained individuals speaking out.
🔗 Read the full letter here: bit.ly/3TZqerw
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Honored to visit the University of Texas School of Law in October as the G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence! law.utexas.edu/publicinteres…
Here's the info re my public lecture on October 13th. If you're in the area, please join us (Registration QR code on the flyer).
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According to Azadeh Shahshahani, the legal and advocacy director at Project South in 2023, isolation for long periods “is cause for significant concern.”
“Two migrants died at Stewart by suicide after being held in solitary for prolonged periods.”
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Trump’s NSPM-7 builds on 25 years of surveillance, expanded terrorism laws and “preventative policing.”
Tina Al-khersan and Azadeh Shahshahani examine how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for today’s crackdown on dissent.
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
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Twenty-five years after 9/11, the repressive tools built for the "War on Terror" are being used against Cop City opponents, pro-Palestine organizers, anti-ICE activists.
Our latest article for @inthesetimesmag with my colleague Tina Al-khersan
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
“We have to resort to suing them just to get information that they very much have that they don’t want to give us," says Project South's Senior Staff Attorney Priyanka Bhatt in the article from WABE on the use of physical force in immigrant detention.
wabe.org/leaked-reports-show…
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Twenty-five years after 9/11, the tools built for the War on Terror are being used against Cop City opponents, pro-Palestine organizers and anti-ICE activists.
Tina Al-khersan and @ashahshahani trace the history.
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
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Trump’s NSPM-7 draws on post-9/11 “preventative policing” and the Patriot Act.
Tina Al-Khersan and @ashahshahani connect today’s crackdown on dissent to the War on Terror that communities have endured for decades.
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
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Trump’s domestic terrorism directive, NSPM-7, links “anti-capitalism” and “anti-Christianity” to political violence.
Tina Al-khersan and @ashahshahani examine its roots in 25 years of post-9/11 policing. #september11
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
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Read about how the U.S government continues to expand its tools of repression to further crush dissent in the latest article from Project South’s Legal and Advocacy Director @ashahshahani & Staff Attorney Tina Al-khersan. Thank you to @inthesetimesmag!
inthesetimes.com/article/war…
Read about how the U.S government continues to expand its tools of repression to further crush dissent in the latest article from Project South’s Legal and Advocacy Director @ashahshahani & Staff Attorney Tina Al-khersan. Thank you to @inthesetimesmag!
inthesetimes.com/article/war…