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Former Minneapolis Police Officer Accused In George Floyd’s Murder Asks Judge To Dismiss Charges⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ One of the former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd is asking a judge to dismiss the murder charge against him.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Derek Chauvin’s attorney filed court papers on Friday, saying there is no probable cause to support the second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter charges, CNN reports.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Chauvin’s attorney also asked for Hennepin County Attorney’s Office to be disqualified, stating “an inappropriate, pretrial publicity campaign,” according to the documents.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Prosecutors on the case have filed a notice asking for an “upward sentencing departure” in the officers’ cases, though Attorney General Keith Ellison did provide any details on what the request will be, he did tell the judge that he has reason to go beyond the “sentencing guidelines grid.” The grid is used in Minnesota to factor in a convicted person’s past ...

The Associated Press is reporting that a Texas father accused of killing his teenage daughters in 2008 was arrested Wednesday, according to the FBI.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Egyptian-born Yaser Abdel Said, 63, was arrested in a small town about 36 miles northwest of Dallas on a capital murder warrant. He had been wanted in connection with the slaying of Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18 since they were killed on New Years Day in 2008.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “Even after 12 years of frustration and dead ends, the pursuit for their killer never ceased,” Irving Police Chief Jeff Spivey said in a statement. “Today’s arrest of their father, Yaser Said, brings us closer to ensuring justice is served on their behalf.”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The sisters were found shot to death in a cab outside a motel in Irving. One of the sisters called 911 to say she was dying, but most of what she said to the 911 dispatcher was unintelligible, and she was unable to provide their location. I remember this case when Crime Watch Daily...

Tik Tok Stars, Bryce Hall and Blake Gray, Charged After “Brazenly Violating The Law” By Throwing Party Despite Coronavirus  On Aug. 8 and Aug. 14, TikTok stars, Bryce Hall and Blake Gray decided to throw parties in their shared Hollywood Hills home. Inevitably, this came with consequences.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ On Aug. 19, Los Angeles cut the power from the boys’ property. Both Hall and Gray are charged with one misdemeanour count of constituting a public nuisance by conducting a loud and unruly conduct gathering which threatens and interferes with public health, safety and welfare, and one misdemeanour count of violating a lawful directive during a local emergency.  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “We allege these hosts have been incredibly irresponsible with a highly infectious disease spreading and parties banned because of it, and we allege they violated the law,” Los Angeles Attorney Mike Feuer said on Friday. “If you have a combined 19 million followers on TikTok om the middle of a public health cr...

 Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is seeking a harsher sentence for Derek Chauvin based on various factors that occurred during George Floyd’s murder. According to TMZ, Ellison approached the judge with documents stating Chauvin’s crime was horrific because children were present and watched George Floyd dying on the street. The legal documents state Floyd was in a “very vulnerable’ state due to being handcuffed with his chest pinned on the street while exclaiming ” I can’t breathe!” to the four officers. Ellison also argued Chauvin treated Floyd with cruelty as he consistently ignored his cries for help and kept his knee pinned on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes with an additional four minutes after he died. The documents also indicated that Chauvin failed to offer Floyd any medical assistance and prevented others from helping him.

 A teen’s family is asking for justice after he was fatally shot by police officers in the Eldorado Park section of Johannesburg. 16-year-old Nathaniel Julius passed away in a hospital on Wednesday night, hours after he was shot in the chest by police officers a few feet away from his home. His family says the officers fatally shot the teen after he was unable to answer their questions due to his condition and witnesses stated he was holding a biscuit when the shooting occurred. However, authorities claim Julius was struck by a stray bullet during a shootout between officers and gang members. As reported by Al Jazeera, witnesses also claimed he was thrown into a van after the shooting and transported to a local hospital. After the public received news about his death, local residents retaliated toward police officers by throwing rocks and other items.

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R. Kelly was reportedly brutally attacked while inside of a prison cell, and the perpetrator was apparently upset about ongoing protests outside of the prison building.⠀ According to multiple reports, R.Kelly was the victim of a nasty beating after a frustrated inmate attacked the singer and jumped him inside of a prison cell.⠀ The inmate decided to go off on Kelly after he became angry over the detention center being placed on lockdown several times after protesters showed up to this prison protesting and calling for the release of the singer.⠀⠀ According to one report, the fight didn't last very long, and people in the area were able to break it up fairly quickly. After the incident, Kelly was taken to the prison's medical wing and it was determined he was not badly injured.⠀ A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau Of Prisons, who manage the prison systems, it cannot comment on an individual inmate's conditions of confinement or medical status due to privacy and safety reas...

 'Love and Hip Hop' star Masika Kalysha has been FIRED from the hit series 'Double Cross' after the reality star faked her own kidnapping while on the set of the show.⠀ Allegedly, immediately following Masika's video being published on Instagram the creator of the show, Christel Gibson, starting getting bombarded with calls from people outside the set describing what had just occurred. Masika posted a video of a fake kidnapping where she cried and begged her followers to join her OnlyFans account and 'tip' her so that the kidnappers could take the money and let her go.⠀ Turns out it was all fake, and Masika claimed she did it to get everyone's attention and raise money for sex trafficking. But, the stunt did not sit well with executives from UMC, the streaming service who airs the series. Allegedly producers from the show and UMC executives spoke to Masika's representatives and requested she publically apologize for such an offensive stunt.⠀⠀ Maskia ...

Future Drops Defamation Lawsuit Against Eliza Reign; Paternity And Child Support Case Still Ongoing ⠀ Future has dropped his defamation lawsuit against the mother of his child Eliza Reign.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ After a back-and-forth legal battle, Future officially dropped his defamation case against his daughter's mother this week, BOSSIP reports. According to court documents, legal parties for the two agreed to dismiss the case, which means Future will never be able to sue her again over the matter.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The case revolved around Future's claims that Reign revealed intimate details about the two's former romantic relationship. He also said the mother harassed him via social media. The rapper sued Reign back in February 2020, accusing her of falsely claiming that he tried to convince her to get an abortion. She claimed that when she changed her mind about getting an abortion, he allegedly threatened to have her murdered. The Atlanta rapper said the entire ordeal left him embarrassed and t...

Black Man Wrongly Convicted Of Raping White Woman Has Been Freed From Prison After Serving 44 Years After 44 years, a Black man has been freed from prison following a wrongful conviction of raping a white woman. Unheard evidence that was seemingly hidden is finally revealed.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In 1976, Ronnie Long was accused of rape by a white woman named Sarah Judson Bost, who falsely claimed Long held her at knifepoint in her Concord home on the evening of April 25 and raped her. After being arrested, he was convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to life in prison for first-degree rape and first-degree burglary.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ On Thursday, Long was freed after serving 44 years in prison after the state of North Carolina filed a motion in federal court on Wednesday, seeking to vacate his 1976 conviction, News reports. During a talk with reporters, Long said, "They will never ever, never ever, ever, lock me up again. This is real. I'm going to try to enjoy every minute of it." ...

Colorado Teen Killed By Off-Duty Officer After Breaking Into Vacant Home To Party With Friends⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ On Thursday, the family of Denver, Colorado teenager Alexis Mendez-Perez filed a lawsuit accusing an off-duty corrections officer of utilizing excessive force when he fatally shot the 16-year-old.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The wrongful death suit arrives more than two months after Denver District Attorney Beth McCann declined to file charges against state Department of Corrections criminal investigator, 46-year-old Desmond Manning. McCann said that she believed there was not enough evidence to convict Manning of murder beyond a reasonable doubt.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The shooting took place just after 1 a.m. on April 23rd when Mendez-Perez and four other high school friends were suspected of breaking into a vacant rental home in northeast Denver, which was located directly in behind Manning's home. According to authorities, Manning's wife was preparing for bed when she spotted five males attempt to break in the home...

Kanye West’s presidential campaign continues to be riddled with controversy. According to Vice, West has now broken crucial campaign finance laws.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The monthly campaign finance filing was due to the Federal Election Commission on August 20. The documentation is a requirement for all presidential candidates who planned to raise or spend at least $100,000 on the campaign. But West’s campaign still hasn’t submitted the paperwork, which would reveal GOP efforts to back his campaign. If he does not submit these documents soon, he could be subject to FEC’s automatic fine of more than $11,000, which is imposed on campaigns that fail to file.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “He’s either violating the reporting requirements or doesn’t anticipate to spend $100,000 or more on his presidential campaign, and the latter part seems unlikely,” said Paul S. Ryan, the head of litigation at the good-government group Common Cause. “He’s missed an FEC reporting deadline on August 20 and is in [likely] violation of the law.” How...

American actor, Chadwick Boseman, who played the role of King T’Challa in Black Panther is dead. He died at the age of 43. According to a statement shared via his verified Twitter handle, Chadwick died after a four-year battle with colon cancer. American presidential candidate on the platform of Democratic Party, Joe Biden, has commiserated with the family of late Hollywood Star, Chadwick Boseman, who died of colon cancer aged 43. Biden expressed his condolences via a tweet. He stated, “The true power of Chadwick Boseman was bigger than anything we saw on screen. From the Black Panther to Jackie Robinson, he inspired generations and showed them they can be anything they want — even super heroes. Jill and I are praying for his loved ones at this difficult time.” His running mate, Kamala Harris, also tweeted a statement mourning the loss of Boseman. In the same vein, many fellow actors and celebrities paid tribute to Boseman via social media following the announcement of his death, inclu...

Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, 65, has announced his resignation after his eight-year stint in power due to ill health amid reports he had been vomiting blood. Abe, 65, who made the announcement on Friday August 28, said he had suffered a relapse of a chronic bowel condition -saying he had 'lost a lot of his energy and strength' and would need regular medical treatment that would prevent him from tackling the Coronavirus crisis. 'I have been struggling with my illness and I have to get treatment. Poor health should not lead to wrong political decisions,' he told a press conference. Speculation about the Prime Minister's health started after he made several visits to a Tokyo hospital in the space of one week.  On Monday morning August 24, Abe reportedly visited Keio University Hospital in Tokyo for what was his second hospital visit in a week. There are also reports of the PM vomiting blood due to his health. The governing Liberal Democratic Party is expecte...

A world champion wrestler lashed out at his bride during their wedding party after guests received messages saying she was an escort. Zaurbek Sidakov, 24, was getting married to Madina Pliyeva, 25, in Russia’s North Caucasus region, with 500 guests attending, when the guests received racy videos featuring the bride. The videos were allegedly sent by the disgruntled wife of the bride's alleged billionaire tycoon lover.  The messages appeared as the groom’s male friends were throwing him in the air in a traditional dance, and while the female guests were celebrating the marriage in a nearby room. Freestyle wrestler Sidakov, who was due to represent Russia at the postponed 2020 Olympics, then found his bride and pulled her away by the hair. According to Daily Star, he left her weeping on the floor and the party was cancelled. Madina was taken to hospital by her friends and family and is now reportedly hiding in Moscow.  Her father suffered a heart attack in the wake of the weddin...

  A 63-year-old woman who wanted to look younger almost died when she was injected with fake Botox. Marcelle King, from Poole, Dorset, England, saw an advert on Facebook for the Botox injection and a simple treatment in west London.She drove to what she assumed would be a clinic, only to end up arriving at a house, reports Liverpool Echo. Marcelle said: "This guy turned up and I saw he'd driven up in a brand new BMW and that gave me no cause for concern. The only question I asked him was if he was going to use those fine needles like I've seen on TV. And he held up what looked like a dog vaccination needle to me and said no these are better." The man, named Ozan Melin, proceeded to inject Marcelle, who paid him £300 for the procedure. Rather than achieve the expected result, Marcelle noticed that there was "no change whatsoever" after two days. So, two weeks later she booked in again. Marcelle said: "Round two was excruciatingly painful, he did say ...

Even as the Chaplain came in to the room to comfort us with pictures of her and birth certificate and little mementos from the hospital, I was still just numb. I told him I felt ashamed that I lost the battle despite my faith. He reminded me that in this world we fight many battles but we are in a war and it is ultimately about winning the war. I also remember our dear friend came to see us a few hours later, I just wanted to sing and praise God! I wanted to so badly sing that I was humming the words to ‘My God is Awesome’ by Charles Jenkins. This is the point I saw my test become my testimony. This is when I realised I had reached a new level of faith. A point where like Job I could say ‘Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him.’ I NEVER in a million years thought I would be able to praise God when my daughter had just passed away and this is why I call this experience a testimony. God put peace in my heart and song on my lips. I knew even in the blur of my pain that ‘everything woul...

When my daughter was born, after 14 hours in labour, I saw her try hard to take breaths but she couldn’t. I saw how beautiful she was in a few quick seconds before they had to take her to NICU to try to save her life. She was so small but so incredibly beautiful with SO MUCH HAIR!!! For some reason I cannot forget her beautiful head of hair. I truly believed when they took her away, they will come back to me with an apology for doubting my faith and they will realise she was completely healthy. I kept waiting for them to come and give me the update and they eventually did. But contrary to my expectations, they came to tell me just how serious the situation was and how bad it looked.  They had tried everything but it all seemed to have no effect. They were just going to monitor her for the next few days and see if she improved. I knew when they said this that she was definitely going to improve. I am a believer in the word of God that says where there is life there is hope, so my ho...

 It is so odd, writing about the loss of a child, you fear that the words can never fully express the pain and the gravity of the situation. But I don’t mean to just express my pain and loss. I mean to show God’s power and love even in the darkest days. I come from a culture of silence, where speaking about certain issues is almost taboo. One of the most kept secrets is when a woman loses a child, no one talks about it and it is almost like it never happened. People only speak about it when the woman has another child or they find out that you have lost a child. I fall in the category of the latter. I gave birth to my beautiful daughter on the 2nd of March 2015 and she passed away on the 3rd of March 2015 after 42 weeks pregnancy. I remember my experience and every time, I marvel at the power of God to give unimaginable peace. I found out on the 22nd of January 2015 that my daughter had a condition called congenital diaphragmatic hernia; an extremely rare condition in which the dia...

 “My biological mother had three kids at a young age, then dropped us all off with my aunt. It wasn’t even a legal adoption—she just signed a piece of notebook paper. My aunt already had three kids, so it was wild in that house. Summers without air. Winters without heat. I loved her to death. And she tried to keep us clothed and fed, but I can’t say that everything she did was exactly legal. She collected disability for some injury that she never wanted to talk about. And she was a bit of a thief.  On the first day of school we’d go to the Salvation Army and switch our old clothes for the ones on the rack. My brothers began to model her behaviour at a very young age. They drank a lot. They fought a lot. And they stole a lot. The whole town knew about us. On the first day of high school, our principal Mr. Herring pulled me aside and gave me a stern warning: ‘I know your siblings,’ he said.  ‘And I hope you remember that we won’t tolerate the same behaviour from you.’ I was...

“We were together for three years. He wasn’t a bad person. He worked hard. He was charismatic. But he was hiding a major drug problem from me. There were violent episodes. He once choked me in a hotel room while we were on vacation. He broke my phone. He tried to rip up my passport. Then on the way home, he dropped to one knee in the airport and asked me to marry him. That was the pattern. We’d get in a huge fight, then after a few days he’d ‘love bomb’ me.  He’d say that he needed me. And that he’d never get better without me. So I’d take him back, and the cycle would begin all over again. One Monday morning there was a knock on our door. It was my mother, and she told me that my sister had been pulled over by the police. She was battling a drug addiction of her own. They found empty needles all over her car, and my two-year-old nephew Robert was placed into foster care. From that moment on—all I could think about was getting him back. But it was nearly impossible.  I had to ...

 “I heard the rumour from a random girl in school. She told me that my boyfriend had gotten another girl pregnant. He’d cheated on me before—so I assumed it was true. But for awhile he denied everything. Then he shifted to blaming the girl. Her name was Stacie. And as the story often goes, I turned all my hatred and hurt toward her. We literally never spoke. And my boyfriend would talk her down every chance he got. I’d occasionally see her when she dropped the baby off at the house. I’d feel such hatred every time the doorbell would ring. She was always so well put-together.  There was this unapproachable air about her. Like she was better than everyone else. Worst of all—she had this connection with my boyfriend that I didn’t have. The connection of a child. And that was thrown in my face every time she came to the door. My jealousy created a monster inside of me. I withdrew from everyone. Then one year later I got pregnant myself. I didn’t feel any excitement. Instead there ...

 I met this man in Facebook in 2011 and instantly, we got talking and he visited Nigeria in 2013 . We were both happy to see each other physically for the first time and we spent some days together and we started relationship. He went back to Europe and returned the follow year which is 2014 . While we were together in our hotel room, I took his camera and went through the pictures but something wasn't  right to me as I saw several baby pictures of the same person  and I asked him since he told me he was not married and single and do not have any child.  So immediately I showed him the picture, he said he looked at me and said it's his friend baby that he went for his naming ceremony. After series of questioning he eventually opened up and told me the baby his but he is not with the woman again. Stupid love right? I bought the fairy tales  and we moved on and less than a month I discovered I was pregnant and we both made a plan to settle and start a fa...

“I never tell the story to anyone. I find it shameful. I find it pitiful. When I finally escaped, the man said to me: ‘I hope you’ll forgive me for what I’ve done to your life.’ But honestly his soul is not my problem. I’ve done everything I can to forget those years. I think you have only one duty in life. You stand up and you go. No matter what happens: I will buy a dress, I will colour my hair, I’ll put on my lipstick, and I’ll go out and meet people. After I got my papers, the first thing I did was enrol in French school. I began to make friends. I learned that people liked me.  I could make them laugh. Can you imagine? For ten years I hadn’t made anyone laugh. I began to see that I wasn’t handicapped. I wasn’t deformed. I wasn’t broken. I became a salesperson at a make-up store. I was so good at it. Number one in Europe for my company. And I met a man who cares about me. His name is Mark. He’s super beautiful. He’s bald. I love bald. I typed ‘bald’ into the dating site. A...

 “The situation was horrible. The Soviet Union had just collapsed. Nobody was able to adapt except for the criminals. You’d see people you loved begging on the streets for food. Everyone around me had one dream: to leave Moldova. But not me. It seemed like a foolish idea. I thought: ‘Why go someplace where there’s nobody waiting for you?’ It seemed too risky. So I stayed. I got a degree. I worked as an economist in the Ministry of Statistics and Prices. I bought my own apartment. And I felt safe. I knew how to manage my life and solve any problem.  But suddenly I had this very strong feeling that my life was finished. I’d reached the limits of my world. I’d never experience anything new. I’d never be surprised again. But I was still young at the time. I was thirty-five. I was strong and not afraid of anything. I told myself: ‘I can do this. I have just enough energy to live one more life.’ So I decided to change my life completely. But that isn’t the reason I finally left Mold...

 “My mother came to New York from Alabama at the age of nineteen. She had nothing but a high school diploma. She almost didn’t make it. There was so much pressure because she was all alone. Later in life she came clean. She told me that she’d gotten so depressed that she turned on the gas one night. But my brother and I started crying in the crib. And she was so touched that she decided to keep going. She became a nurse at Lenox Hill hospital. She was married three times. Three sets of children. Each time her husband claimed she wouldn’t make it without him. Each time she said ‘Go on ahead.’ She taught us all the proverbs. She taught us to love ourselves.  The punishments could be harsh. Sometimes she’d go at us with the extension cord. But I always knew there was a steak dinner waiting for me at the end. She was only hard on me because she wanted me to succeed, which I never did. Thirty years on the street. Twenty years addicted to crack. But she never gave up on me. Even dur...

 “He wasn’t my type. He was nerdy. He was wearing Converse. And he talked like a robot. But it had been over a year since anyone had paid attention to me. And I was enjoying our conversation. I never told him that I had a daughter. I just wanted to be ‘that girl at the brewery.’ For one afternoon, I didn’t want to be the young, single mother. And it was nice. It was nice to feel wanted again. When he asked if we could go out sometime, I didn’t even hesitate.  But I started feeling nervous as soon as I got home. Because I started thinking about all the places a date could lead, and I knew I had to tell him. So I sent him a text. It said: ‘You should know I have a daughter. Things aren’t good with her father. I’m not asking you to fill that role, but if you want to cancel the date-- we can.’ There were twenty minutes of silence. And then he replied: ‘It is what it is.’ Just like a robot. Then he wrote: ‘If the date sucks, we never have to talk again.’ We made plans to meet at a ...

By this time in 2012 I was battling for my life after a complicated emergency CS where I kept bleeding non stop and was in the theatre for hours. You see, I had a post term baby that was declared dead in my womb ( no foetal heartbeat) because we had no money  for CS! A pastor paid 100% the day before I went to the hospital for the sad news.  The recovery process  for me was a tough one. I was kept in UUTH for 2weeks, transfused over 6pints of blood and an hourly pain reliever administered. Finally, when I was discharged one would have thought it's over. Sadly not. My blood count was still very low and I was pale, so my mom started her own home medication ( water squeezed out from pumpkin leave and that tasteless thing was given to me for days. I was in a turmoil of a marriage that one would hit you and say it was the devil and religious folks will tell you to forgive , pray, fast and be more submissive. Until one day you are 6 feet below.  We kept pretending tha...

She got married in the most painful way anyone can think of. She ended up managing her situation just to have a happy home. Her husband whom she met as a "growing man" and gave him her support. She watched him grow from self contain room, to 1 bedroom to 3bedrooms  flat and finally to their own duplex. She watched him grow from a mere boat rider to a captain of a ship. I watched  him grow from  legged Benz to Taxi, to Honda Bullet to Toyota highlander and to Benz C class. She watched her used to be poor husband turn into a multi millionaire.   Unfortunately, things went sour! She started enduring domestic violence, abuse, infidelity  and maltreatment from her in laws.  She hid her tribulation from her family because she didn't want them worried. She also was scared of the society  mocking her for having a failed marriage. She prayed, she fasted, she did vigils, she did the midnight heart to heart talk with her husband just to find out what we...

"A sad story of three and two lucky ones!"  Everyone probably remembers how this winter, walking in a terrible blizzard with his pet, 5 little puppies were found and rescued, whom someone mercilessly wrapped with tape in a box and threw into a snowdrift, if not for my tail, which with his big ears heard something under the snow, they would have died alive. Having reached through a snowdrift and dug it out, I saw a freezing carousel, then it was a pleasure to make a house for them at least out of this box, I took my own home, brought them food and a blanket, but unfortunately the snowstorm intensified and they constantly fell asleep, then I had nothing all that remained was how to take a shovel and crawl through a snowdrift to get to the nearest garage  (the owners of which, of course, have it, but it was open and it was after the fire). Its first picture was just taken in this garage, the puppies were no longer small (for a long time I dragged them there through the snowdrift...

Why am I in the  penal colony school catching flies When you first get into the squad from quarantine in the zone, everyone treats you with suspicion. The main rule is that you can't put any information about your squad beyond its limits. Gossip is harshly punished. ⠀ Every unit has its quarrels, innuendo. You're all at work together, then at home. Squad - a huge organism, which functions only with the active participation of all prisoners. It's a big family, where someone is closer, someone is further away. There are friendships, scandals, hierarchy, love and all these adequate and not very things. ⠀ But my story today is not about that, but about our "skeletons in the closet." I'm sure every unit has its own little secrets. Our innocent ban was a pet. We had a Yora lizard in our unit. He was caught in the summer, and in the fall, when I came to the camp, he was already in our barracks. Jora lived in a five-litre tank with a hole cut from the side. There was ...

A typical day in the  penal  colony South time to talk about what life is like under the regime. Everyone who has such an opportunity, who is warmed - has a wristwatch. Life in the camp goes under the PVR (rules of internal order) and to violate the regime - one of the most terrible violations. ⠀ Chase: 5:00 - rise. Getting up early is a report. Later for more than 3-5 minutes - report. In the section where the beds are, there are 4 CCTV cameras. ⠀ 5:00 - 5:30 - training for work, washing, if you have time - you can drink coffee. ⠀ 5:30 - 6:00 - each unit is built near his dormitory in alphabetical order of 3 people in the line and starting from 1 in turn goes to the place. At first we stand on the platform, look into the dark morning sky under the national anthem of Russia, then do the charging (Sluggishly do the charging - report. Between the squads there are garbage and make sure that all perform exercises, make comments) Around the place is also A CCTV camera, as well as t...

I've had an unforgettable journey in my life,  In 2017, when I was living in Moscow, I was detained and convicted under Article 228.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: "possession of drugs on a large scale." And until April 2019, I was in prison. Thath, which locations included my tourist ticket? There during the investigation, I was in the largest women's prison in Russia, the FKU jails-6, Moscow Wesy 2018, I fell ill with chickenpox, and then measles. And I was taken to the hospital, on the men's central Sailor's Silence FKU JAIL-1. Moscow This I was sent to the Vladimir region, through 2 central areas: Kopeika (Vladimir Central, FKU SISO-1) and Kolchugin Central FKU  The end point  of my journey is hell: the women's penal colony is 1 in the village of Golovino, Vladimir region, where I was serving my sentence. Because people are afraid, they think it's shameful and horrible. For me it was an interesting and important experience. Where ...

It's a story about my parents,  prison and  my come-out. Many of me have been asked to write about how my parents reacted to being detained, how we communicate now. ⠀ The first day after the detention, that is, before coming to the investigator's office, I was not allowed to call. When the lawyer came, I called my girlfriend and asked me to dial my mom, give me a lawyer's number. To be honest, I was just scared to dial my mom and tell her about it in person. After a few days at the IVS there was a measure of restraint, my father's friends and my girlfriend came to the court. I have no relatives in Moscow and no one else had to help me there. ⠀ The next time I contacted my mom, I only got in after a week of quarantine when I went into the cell. During this time my father, who was vacationing in Jordan, flew to Moscow. The investigator showed screenshots of correspondence, photos and other materials from the phone that are not related to my case. I'm very sad that a g...

“My brother and I were both placed into foster homes at a young age. He was lucky—he went to a family called the Beths. I went through four different homes in three years, and each one was worse than the next. I’d get to see my brother every few months. Ms. Beth would take us for lunch at McDonalds, and that’s when she first noticed the scars all over my body. She immediately made arrangements for me to join their family. Back then the word ‘family’ didn’t mean much to me. But the Beths made me feel welcome in their home. Whenever I did something wrong, Ms. Beth would sit me down and explain why it wasn’t OK.  But then she’d say: ‘You’re not going anywhere. Because you belong to us now.’ Shortly after I joined the family, Mr. Beth was diagnosed with cancer. And later that year he passed away. Ms. Beth’s entire world fell apart. They’d been high school sweethearts. And now she was alone with two foster kids. Nobody would have blamed her for taking us back. But instead she took us to...

“I think to understand how it happened—you have to know that he adored my mother. They were married for 67 years. He treated her like gold. He always opened doors for her. He did the vacuuming. The grocery shopping. He’d cook us dinner every Saturday. He’d come home from work at 5:30, and anything my sister and I wanted to do—he’d do it: play baseball, go to the lake, anything.  I never heard him complain. He never once got mad at me. I wasn’t the best driver, and a couple times I crashed our car into a snowbank. But it was always: ‘Are you OK?’ Not once did he say: ‘What’s the matter with you?’ That’s how he was. He was the gentlest man. My relationship with my mother could be challenging, and Dad knew that. So he tried to make up for it. He was the one who was always there. He was the one that I could go to for anything. He lived to be 96, and not once in my life did I question that he was my father. The truth only came out after his death, when my son decided to get a DNA test. ...