Project South

We organize for racial & economic justice by convening spaces for Southern-based, grassroots movement building, leadership development, and strategic action.

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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:

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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.”

https://t.co/F3WqCnHqBm

[Azadeh Shahshahani @ashahshahani]

More here: https://t.co/A3VHd93JTy

[Azadeh Shahshahani @ashahshahani]

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.

[Azadeh Shahshahani @ashahshahani]

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.

[Azadeh Shahshahani @ashahshahani]

We call for an immediate independent investigation into this tragic death and for accountability. Folkston must be shut down immediately.

[Azadeh Shahshahani @ashahshahani]

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.

[Common Dreams @commondreams]

"We call for an immediate independent investigation into this tragic death and for accountability. Folkston must be shut down immediately," said @ashahshahani of @ProjectSouth. https://t.co/PFdTiH9osz

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TODAY!

[Azadeh Shahshahani @ashahshahani]

Honored to visit the University of Texas School of Law in October as the G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence! https://t.co/JPjHVs7jjg

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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📢 @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: https://t.co/RusOWLjxWf

[Azadeh Shahshahani @ashahshahani]

Honored to visit the University of Texas School of Law in October as the G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence! https://t.co/JPjHVs7jjg

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).

[POGO Investigates @POGOinvestigate]

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.”

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

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.

https://t.co/9fXwt8KtEJ

[Azadeh Shahshahani @ashahshahani]

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
https://t.co/oVOQDtBzeX

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“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.

https://t.co/nWFnISvGqn

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

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.

https://t.co/9fXwt8KtEJ

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

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.

https://t.co/9fXwt8KtEJ

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

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

https://t.co/9fXwt8KtEJ

[Project South @ProjectSouth]

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!

https://t.co/oG6Lol0oRs

[Project South @ProjectSouth]

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!

https://t.co/oG6Lol0oRs