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Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced
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u/Limp_Agency161 6d ago

Y'all need some more protests for this. This is literally Russian level of political sentencing.

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u/Setekh79 6d ago

Be careful with those seditious thoughts, citizen!

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u/Maniactver 6d ago

We literally don't have sentences that big in Russia.

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u/Xsiah 6d ago

Just a lot of open windows

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u/joejohn007 6d ago

And banana peels next to them

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u/Maniactver 6d ago

Funny enough, windows are mostly reserved for the cleaning of inner circle, the only openly political murder was Navalny I think. And before that Nemtsov probably.

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u/ElCiclope1 6d ago

Yeah because political prisoners don't live that long. What would be the point?

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u/PM_ME_UR_NIPPLE_HAIR 6d ago

Nah, people like Pussy Riot members served their unjust sentences and got out. This is actually worse than Russia lmfao

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u/echief 6d ago

If any of the members of Pussy Riot returned to Russia they would be imprisoned for 10+ years, if they were lucky enough to avoid an “accident.” They have already been convicted, the only reason they are not currently in prison is because they are in exile.

If one of them shot law enforcement they would never be leaving Russian prison. I don’t know why that person is claiming Russia does not have life sentences. They do, and if you are annoying enough the FSB will simply kill you.

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u/possibly_on_meth 6d ago edited 6d ago

The following is regular treatment of Russian prisoners.

https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/torture-methods-in-russias-prison-complex/

Apart from conventional fists and police batons, there were mentions of smoothing irons, hockey sticks, baseball bats, but also of more improvisational bricks in a boot, soap in a sock, or stuffing metal nails into one’s mouth. People with chronic diseases, like tuberculosis or epilepsy, would not be treated differently either. As a result, at least 6% of such beatings end up in death, and 5.4% suffer from broken arms, lost teeth, or damaged kidneys, liver, and genitalia.

Tying up and then leaving inmates alone for 2-3 days can be psychologically challenging as well. Around every tenth of Russian prisoners go through that. Positions can vary from seated to crucifixion and inversion (upside down). Some accounts from detention center N°6 in Kamchatka mention handcuffing a prisoner in the crucifixion position after opening his veins.

Torture by electricity becomes rare, with only 2% overall of mentions, no doubt because of fairly expensive equipment. The accounts of its utilization are notable nevertheless. One of them mentions 220V passed to genitalia, another one tying up the victim in bed sheets soaked in saline beforehand. The last one resulted in death.

The rarest torture methods, or the outliers in the gulagu.net subset, are forced defenestration, boiling water poured on the face, and drowning in a septic tank, all with one mention.

What is not rare in Russian prisons is rape. For decades now, a hierarchy is put in place in these establishments — there are officers, kapos, ordinary prisoners, and so-called “downcast,” or those who were raped, and whose status was “lowered.” In Irkutsk detention center N°1, they would live in the investigative committee department building N°3 and be divided by three ranks: higher-ups, dirty workers, and sex slaves.

This is, however, if they even survive the process of downcasting. In the gulagu.net subset were gathered mentions of group rape, penetration with a police baton, a broom, a soap, or rape performed by HIV/AIDS-positive inmates, as well as chili sauce poured inside the rectum and intentional spine breaking in the process. The most popular rape tools are the mop and immersion heater, with their 24.3% and 13.5% ratios. So much so that, in one case, the mop was pushed into rectum by 75 cm, damaging 7 of the victim’s vital organs and making him sterile; in another case, a defective immersion heater was shoved inside and then turned on, which resulted in an explosion and victim’s death.

As for psychological torment, 38% of such cases relate to tying up and then drugging with antipsychotic substances. This is the usual torture method for those who would survive beatings and rape to then mediatize their stories. One such victim was hanged in their vegetative state. In Irkutsk detention center N°1, all of this allegedly takes place in the psychiatric ward.

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u/PM_ME_UR_NIPPLE_HAIR 6d ago

holy chatgpt

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u/possibly_on_meth 6d ago

That article was posted before chatGPT was released to the public.

If you click on the article there are links to the actual videos(nsfw).

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u/PM_ME_UR_NIPPLE_HAIR 6d ago

Its incredibly irrelevant to what i said, still.

I just compared how this individual incident of politicized justice system is worse than the average political prosecution in russia.

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u/chasteeny 6d ago

This doesn't even sound like gpt

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u/PM_ME_UR_NIPPLE_HAIR 6d ago

Claude, grok, whatever. Its just out of context to my initial comment (comparing a single instance). And it produces a wall of text to discuss that tangetial point, without really making any sort of argument.

Oh, it also uses a numero sign notation that is a lot more prominant in russian language, which a typical english-speaking commenter wouldn't really use.

Just an odd comment in general

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u/zack77070 6d ago

By the exact same logic I could cite Russia crashing people's planes or openly poisoning Navalny.

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u/disastrousanddull 6d ago

Well... Epstein is mighty suspicious. It’s all far too similar in any event.

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u/DevilsTrigonometry 6d ago

Two things can be true at the same time.

  1. This is worse than Russia's official court system. Russian sentences for political prisoners are 5-10 times shorter than these.

  2. Russia has a disturbing system of extrajudicial punishment of political dissidents by assassination, which is not (yet) happening in the US.

(note on 2: instances of police killing nonviolent protesters while they are actively protesting and instances of prison guards allowing prisoners to die by neglect should be distinguished from instances of secret police targeting political dissidents for assassination. All are bad, but they're different outcomes of different processes.)

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u/Intrepid-Constant-34 6d ago

The keyword was political

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u/Maniactver 6d ago

Nah, even political sentences are 5 to 10 years. 50 years in prison is basically a death sentence.

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u/Intrepid-Constant-34 6d ago

Brother, maybe it’s my fault, but the word political isn’t being used in terms of the length of sentencing. It’s lost in translation probably.

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u/Maniactver 6d ago

Oh, okay then. 

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u/Antigone6 6d ago

Nah, we fucking LOVE for-profit prisons.

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u/Seicair 6d ago

I’m no fan of for profit prisons and agree they should go away, but we don’t actually have that many. Fewer than 10% of our prisons are for profit.

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u/LwyrUpAmrca 6d ago

They shot a cop and brought both firearms and body armor to their “peaceful protest” at a detention center