AlphaBay Darknet Market Moderator Handed 11-Year Prison Sentence

A former AlphaBay market moderator has been sentenced to 11 years in prison

A Colorado man who served as moderator for the now-defunct AlphaBay dark web market is set to spend 11 years of his life in prison.

Through a press statement by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), authorities announced that the 26-year-old Bryan Connor Herrell has been sentenced by the U.S. District Court Judge Dale Drozd to 11 years behind bars.

The convict had initially faced charges in June 2019 for the part he played in enabling the sale of illicit goods and services via the AlphaBay market. The court session took place in the Eastern District of California, with the defendant pleading guilty in January 2020.

Reportedly, the DOJ had planned to set a hearing date for the man’s sentencing in May, but took place just recently owing to the government-sanctioned restrictions related to the current global COVID-19 crisis.

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At the age of 22 I was sentenced to a very long prison term for computer fraud

I used the time in prison to reflect on my life and my person.

After my imprisonment I let the deeds speak for themselves. I graduated in business informatics, built up a great social circle, found a great employer and went through a great personal development (for me) - today I am where I always wanted to be in my life. I am a free person.

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This Company Monitors Prisoners In Xinjiang. It Won An “Innovation” Award At An Event Sponsored By Amazon

The Chinese government’s use of prisons and detention camps in Xinjiang is part of what the US and other countries have called a genocide.

With an Amazon logo behind him and luminaries from Shanghai’s booming venture capital scene in front of him, the executive onstage delivered his pitch. His company, Renwei Electronics, helps authorities in China track prisoners and detainees — alerting guards to their movements and even fitting them with heart rate monitors.

Renwei deploys its “smart prison” system in China’s Xinjiang region, where more than 1 million Muslim minorities have been locked up.

Yet this did not interfere with the warm welcome for Renwei at an event cohosted by an Amazon-backed “joint innovation center” in November. Event organizers gave Renwei’s executive a platform to deliver an “investor road show”–style speech to some of China’s most prestigious investors. And Renwei received a “product innovation award” recognizing it as one of six “outstanding entrepreneurial companies.”

Sent a detailed list of questions, Amazon declined to comment on the record. Renwei did not respond to a request for comment.

A growing list of multinational corporations are under pressure to move their supply chains away from Xinjiang, amid mounting evidence of mass detention and forced labor there, as part of what the US and other countries have recently called a genocide. Congress is considering a bill banning imports from Xinjiang tainted by forced labor, and US customs have already banned products made from tomatoes and cotton in the region, among other goods.

Amazon shut down its e-commerce business in China in 2019, but other parts of its sprawling empire still work with Chinese customers, including its highly profitable cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/amazon-xinjiang-prison-surveillance-award

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Australia's New Lockdowns Are REAL & INSANE: Listen To These 5 Testimonials Of Aussies. By An0maly

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🇵🇸 1/2 - Some context and background on Palestinians detained & imprisoned by Israel :

1) A Palestinian "prisoner" does not refer to someone tried & convicted in a normal court of law that follows due process. Palestinians are detained by Israeli soldiers, https://www.addameer.org/israeli_military_judicial_system/military_courts

No arrest warrant, no right to a phone call, no lawyers present. 2) Palestinians are interrogated without lawyers present & widespread abuses amounting to torture, are documented by human rights orgs. This links to some #testimonies. https://addameer.org/publications/systematic-use-torture-and-ill-treatment-israeli-interrogation-centers-cases-torture

3) Palestinian children are also tried in specially designed "juvenile military courts". Between 500 & 700 🇵🇸 kids are tried in these courts each year. Sworn affidavits of nearly 800 child detainees show 86% were not informed of the reason for their arrest https://www.dci-palestine.org/military_detention

80% were strip-searched, 42% were denied adequate food & water, 31% were denied access to a toilet, 97% were interrogated without a family member present, 55% were shown or made to sign a paper in Hebrew, not Arabic. https://www.savethechildren.net/news/%E2%80%9Ctreated-animals%E2%80%9D-palestinian-children-face-inhumane-treatment-israeli-run-prisons

4) Israel widely uses "administrative detention" against hundreds of Palestinians. This allows for the indefinite detention of a Palestinian without charge - renewable every 6 months. Since '67, around 60,000 Palestinians were administrative detainees. https://www.btselem.org/administrative_detention

Source : Noure Odeh
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22/11/2023

🇵🇸 2/2 - Some context and background on Palestinians detained & imprisoned by Israel

5) At least 800,000 🇵🇸shave been imprisoned at one point in their lives since 1967 by Israel, making the issue of prisoners a topic that touches all families. In July @FranceskAlbs said this mass incarceration policy was another expression of apartheid. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/07/dismantle-israels-carceral-regime-and-open-air-imprisonment-palestinians-un

6) Israel detains Palestinians from Gaza under an obscure law that strips away meaningful judicial review and due process rights. That says a lot given that Palestinian detainees from the West Bank barely have any rights. https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/03/01/gaza-unlawful-combatants-law-violates-rights

7) More than 10,000 Palestinian women have been imprisoned since 1967. Currently around 80 are imprisoned & detained by Israel.

8) Palestinians can be detained for raising a 🇵🇸, throwing stones, "incitement", or affiliation with any political faction. https://www.addameer.org/israeli_military_judicial_system/military_orders

9) Since 10/7, Israeli forces have detained around 3,000 Palestinians, including 30 journalists, community leaders, and non-violent resistance leaders & has denied lawyers & ICRC access. HR orgs have documented horrific tales of torture of detainees https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-horrifying-cases-of-torture-and-degrading-treatment-of-palestinian-detainees-amid-spike-in-arbitrary-arrests/#:~:text=Israeli%20authorities%20have%20dramatically%20increased,of%20torture%20and%20death%20in"

10) Released prisoners say in addition to cutting off water & electricity, detainees report that many have had their limbs, legs, and hands broken, and many others from unrecognizable from the beating. Soldiers are filming the abuse : https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=ltu-F_2ai1M

Source @Noure Odeh
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22/11/2023

🇵🇸 Marah Bakr, freed Palestinian prisoner reunited with her mother

Marah Bakr, released from Ofer prison on the 22 November, reunites with her family. The release is part of a temporary truce deal, through which at least 39 Palestinian women and children were released.

Bakr had been incarcerated since the age of 17 and spent eight years behind bars in Israeli prisons

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Source : Middle East Eye
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24/11/2023

🇵🇸 39 Palestinian prisoner women and children return home.

Al Jazeera's Nida Ibrahim from the Occupied West Bank.This footage was filmed on the 24/11/2023
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🇵🇸 ‘No Pain like Mine’: The Story of Palestinian Prisoner Israa’ Ja’abis

To understand the context of the Palestinian prisoners’ stories, the Palestine Chronicle provides excerpts from Ramzy Baroud’s volume These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons.

Israa’ Ja’abis was born on July 22, 1984, in Al-Quds (Jerusalem), the fourth of nine sisters and brothers. She was arrested following an electrical system failure in her car which caught fire while she was still trapped inside. It resulted in first, second and third-degree burns on her face and all over her body, including the loss of eight fingers.

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