The goal is always the same, though: To use #prisoners’ bodies as weapons of political war & to do so against their will.

This is what evil, #illiberal regimes do.

Liberal regimes have standards for the treatment of prisoners. These standards are codified under the #GenevaConventions, which the #UnitedStates has signed & ratified.

Among the standards dictated by the Geneva Conventions is this: Prisoners may not be publicly exploited for purposes of #propaganda.

The use of #prisoners for #propaganda is as old as war itself. But there are a few recent examples you may recall. ISIS made extensive use of videos & pictures of imprisonment & execution. The Viet Cong & North Vietnamese alternated their approach. Sometimes they used American POWs as props to suggest that all was well in their camps & prisoners were being treated properly. (They were not.) Other times, they used images of American prisoners as tools to spread #fear.…

#Berlin, #Germany: Intervention with hammers against #war – strength to Marianna & Dimitra
https://kontrapolis.info/15289/
FERCHAU is a service company for IT-Engineering and it offers technical solutions to Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces) and other military defence industries in Europe. FERCHAU claim, that they are „Connecting People and Technologies for the Next Level“. They in fact develop products and systems for the machine of war, like „Legacy Transformation, Cyber-Security, Model Based Systems Engineering, Extended Reality and Data Analytics“. They do recruitment events with Bundeswehr to hire specialists for the drone war and they send specialists to maintain the Eurofighter Squadrons of #NATO Air Force.

We sprayed WAR STARTS HERE on the wall of their office building and we broke the entrance area, glass doors, windows with hammers.

This small action is not much more than an intervention in the routine of a society waging war.
#AI #FuckWarmongers #warindustry #FightBack #Gaza #Yemen #Sudan #Syria #Solidarity #Greece #Prisoners

@palestine @israel
#UN report of sexual abuse of #Palestinian detainees “horrifying”

Sari Bashi from Human Rights Watch unpacks a UN report accusing Israel of systemic sexual violence and genocide.

Sari Bashi, a programme director at Human Rights Watch, discusses a UN report that accuses Israel of systemic sexual violence and genocidal acts against Palestinians. #Israel denies the claims.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/quotable/2025/3/18/un-report-of-sexual-abuse-of-palestinian-detainees
#hrw #sexualviolence #sexualabuse #warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes #palestine #prisoners #prisons