Sara Kayyali's guest appearances

Sara Kayyali

The Gateway - A Podcast from the Middle East

Free City Radio

Andrew Smith

Judy Rebick

Naomi Klein

Aaron Maté

Ken Vandermark

Jennifer Moore

Quassim Cassam

Gina Haspel

David Austin

Fred Scharmen

Tariq Ali

Arun Gupta

Arthur Holland Michel

Kanahus Manuel

Alexander Thurston

OwlTail

Hamid Khan

Sharing the 17th edition of Free City Radio podcast !This episode includes an interview with Sara Kayyali of Human Rights Watch on prisons in Syria. Sara details the realities of prisons today in Syria, the systemic human rights abuses and lack of due process for prisoners, both within state run prisons, but also the injustices that people have faced while being detained by non-state groups and actors. You can follow Sara's work here :https://www.hrw.org/about/people/sara-kayyaliAlso longtime community activist Hamid Khan speaks about the #DefundLAPD movement within a broader context of the histories of police forces as a tool for systemically racist practices of police forces working to displace working class and racialized communities within LA and beyond. Hamid locates the current work taking place to challenge massive police budgets within longtime community movements that have challenged the fundamental legitimacy of police forces as tools of colonialist violence in the Americas, from defending the expansion of settlements onto Indigenous lands, to protecting systems of slavery. Info on the coalition that Hamid works with here : https://stoplapdspying.orgMusic on this episode by @thenarcicyst and selections from a mix İSTANBUL EKSPRES by @thenewobjective for @acloserlisten.Free City Radio is produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and also broadcasts every Wednesday on @radiockut at 90.3fm in Montreal.

Sharing the 17th edition of Free City Radio podcast ! This episode includes an interview with Sara Kayyali of Human Rights Watch on prisons in Syria. Sara details the realities of prisons today in Syria, the systemic human rights abuses and lack of due process for prisoners, both within state run prisons, but also the injustices that people have faced while being detained by non-state groups and actors. You can follow Sara's work here : <a href="https://www.hrw.org/about/people/sara-kayyali" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.hrw.org/about/people/sara-kayyali</a> Also longtime community activist Hamid Khan speaks about the #DefundLAPD movement within a broader context of the histories of police forces as a tool for systemically racist practices of police forces working to displace working class and racialized communities within LA and beyond. Hamid locates the current work taking place to challenge massive police budgets within longtime community movements that have challenged the fundamental legitimacy of police forces as tools of colonialist violence in the Americas, from defending the expansion of settlements onto Indigenous lands, to protecting systems of slavery. Info on the coalition that Hamid works with here : <a href="https://stoplapdspying.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://stoplapdspying.org</a> Music on this episode by @thenarcicyst and selections from a mix İSTANBUL EKSPRES by @thenewobjective for @acloserlisten. Free City Radio is produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and also broadcasts every Wednesday on @radiockut at 90.3fm in Montreal.

17. Sara Kayyali of Human Rights Watch on prisons in Syria, Activist Hamid Khan on #DefundLAPD

Since late 2016, the Jordanian government has been slowly stifling civil society organizations and media outlets. Through a combination of subtle acts of intimidation, cooptations, overt crackdowns, and passage of new laws restricting dissent, Jordan’s political landscape has been radically changed.The most dramatic example of this years-long strategy has been the ongoing crackdown against the country’s powerful teachers union, called the Jordan Teachers’ Syndicate or the Jordan Teachers’ Association.The union successfully executed one of the country’s longest strikes in 2019 to secure a wage increase for public school teachers before the government backtracked on the agreement Spring of this year.Then in July, the government raided its offices and arrested its leaders, accusing them vaguely of breaking the law. The action prompted mass gatherings of teachers and union supporters across the country in the biggest act of national defiance since the Arab Spring of 2011. It was soon violently suppressed.But the actions against the teachers can be taken as a sign that the government is more willing to engage more overtly to restrict expressions of dissent. In other words, it could foreshadow even more aggressive moves by the state.Al Bawaba spoke with Sara Kayyali, a researcher for Human Rights Watch, on the causes and impacts this years-long crackdown has had on Jordan’s civil society, and what recourse organizations have to continue operating in this new political landscape.

Since late 2016, the Jordanian government has been slowly stifling civil society organizations and media outlets. Through a combination of subtle acts of intimidation, cooptations, overt crackdowns, and passage of new laws restricting dissent, Jordan’s political landscape has been radically changed. The most dramatic example of this years-long strategy has been the ongoing crackdown against the country’s powerful teachers union, called the Jordan Teachers’ Syndicate or the Jordan Teachers’ Association. The union successfully executed one of the country’s longest strikes in 2019 to secure a wage increase for public school teachers before the government backtracked on the agreement Spring of this year. Then in July, the government raided its offices and arrested its leaders, accusing them vaguely of breaking the law. The action prompted mass gatherings of teachers and union supporters across the country in the biggest act of national defiance since the Arab Spring of 2011. It was soon violently suppressed. But the actions against the teachers can be taken as a sign that the government is more willing to engage more overtly to restrict expressions of dissent. In other words, it could foreshadow even more aggressive moves by the state. Al Bawaba spoke with Sara Kayyali, a researcher for Human Rights Watch, on the causes and impacts this years-long crackdown has had on Jordan’s civil society, and what recourse organizations have to continue operating in this new political landscape.

The Slow Enclosure of Jordan’s Civil Society, with Sara Kayyali