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@Gabriella Hoffman and @Madison Hughes present E2 of their "Freedom in Freelancing" video series highlighting Virginia freelancers. This is "Fight for Freelancers," and Episode 2 includes an interview with @GLALegalDefense President @JasonPoblete from Virginia. More at https://gabriellahoffman.com/ and https://americansforprosperity.org/

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The road to justice is usually a very longone. Accountability for gross violations of human rights, such as crimes against humanity, can elude victims or family members, sometimes for a lifetime. This podcast is the first of several planned podcasts that will discuss how former Iranian regime officials have been offered lucrative posts at several American universities.In this episode, Jason talks with Ms. Lawdan Bazargan, whose brother was unlawfully imprisoned, tortured, and assassinated by the Iranian regime in 1988 during was has come to be called the 1988 Massacres. An American and California resident, Lawdan explains how she and her family have sought to hold Iranian regime officials to account in Europe, and more recently, right here in the United States. So when she learned a former Iranian regime official was offered a job at Oberlin College in Ohio, Lawdan and other families whose loved ones had been killed in 1988 sprung into action. Lawdan explains that Americans should work for an education system "free of bigots, murderers, and people accused of crimes against humanity." "Professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati has no place in our higher education system," Lawdan said, and she hopes Oberlin college will reassess their decision to offer him a job. Professor Mahallati is a Professor of Religion at the Department of Religion, Nancy Schrom Dye Chair in the Middle East and North African Studies of Oberlin College. In an Open Letter To Amnesty International on Oberlin College’s Appointment of Mahallati families urged Amnesty and other NGOs to "hold Mahallati accountable for his grave misdeeds on behalf of the Iranian regime. Anything less shows an inexplicable indifference to the mass murders and lies detailed in Amnesty’s report" that included Mahallati for his role in covering up the 1988 Massacres while he served at the United Nations. Further Reading Oberlin College: Take action against Professor Mahallati, Jewish News Syndicate, (June 15, 2021). After [Jerusalem] 'Post' article, college reviews antisemitism of ex-Iran envoy prof, The Jerusalem Post (May 6, 2021). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/support

In this episode, Jason Poblete talks with Dr. Danielle Gilbert, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor ofMilitary & Strategic Studiesat theU.S. Air Force Academy. Dr. Gilbert received her Ph.D. in Political Science fromtheGeorgeWashington Universityin Washington, DC, where she also served as aPh.D. candidate-in-residence with the Institute of Security and Conflict Studies. Her research on the causes and consequences of violence has been supportedby the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, theUnited States Institute of Peace,theSmith Richardson Foundation, the Cosmos Club Foundation, the Bridging the Gap Project, the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace, the Les Aspin ’60 Summer Fellowship, and the Georg W. Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy at Yale.Before beginning her doctoral work,she served four years on Capitol Hill, including as a Senior Legislative Assistant and Appropriations Associate, and worked as a policy advisor on presidential and congressional campaigns. Jason and Dani talk about a wide range of issues in her field and hone on in recent developments in U.S. hostage policy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/support

Retired Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Va.) has dedicated his life to public service, particularly in defense of fundamental human rights and religious freedom. In this podcast, GLA President Jason Poblete talks with Mr. Wolf on a variety of religious freedom issues such as the persecuted churches in Nigeria, China, and the Middle East. Working across party lines Congressman Wolf helped lead the effort to enact the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. In 2016, the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act was enacted. It amended the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA) to state in the congressional findings that the freedom of thought and religion is understood to protect theistic and non-theistic beliefs as well as the right not to profess or practice any religion." The 2016 law amended IRFA in several ways including requiring the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom to report directly to the Secretary of State. This reporting structure was implicit in IRFA (1998) but clarified by the 2016 Amendment as not every Secretary of State had respected this arrangement. The 2016 amendment also established an "entities of particular concern" list, a companion to the "countries of particular concern" classification for non-government actors, such as the Islamic State (IS), the Nigerian terrorist organization Boko Haram, and Houthis. The amended act institutes a "designated persons list" for individuals who violate religious freedom and authorizes the President to issue sanctions against those who participate in persecution. Both of these provisions were already contained in the IRFA legislation (Section 402(2)) but are further detailed in what has been called the Wolf Amendment to IRFA. Wolf represented Virginia's 10th Congressional District from 1981 until 2015. Wolf entered politics in 1968, at the age of 29, when he became a legislative assistant to Edward Biester, the Republican congressman from Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district. From 1971 to 1975, Wolf served as an assistant to Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton.Wolf has traveled extensively to places around the world where people are suffering, including five times to Sudan since 1989. He has advocated for relief from the Darfur genocide and other cases of genocide. He has also convened conferences in his district to address human rights issues around the world. Wolf has vocally criticized the human rights record of China and has championed human rights for religious minorities and other believers the world over.You can read more about Wolf's remarkable career here. Further Reading Prisoner of Conscience: One Man's Crusade for Global Human and Religious Rights, Frank Wolf (Amazon). "Fired for Liking a Tweet on Tibet, US Worker Feels China’s Reach," Voice of America (Mar. 31, 2018). "Stop the Christian Genocide in Nigeria," Frank Wolf and Toufic Baaklini, National Catholic Register (Feb. 26, 2020). Christian Persecution at All-Time High, Say Experts at Alexandria Conference," Arlington Catholic Herald (Sept. 16, 2020). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/support

In this podcast, Jason speaks with Ms. Hollie McKay, journalist, foreign policy expert, and war crimes investigator. Formerly with Fox News, Hollie is currently a national bureau correspondent covering national and international news from Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, and Myanmar.Her most recent book, Only Cry for the Living: Memos From Inside the ISIS Battlefield is a chilling yet sobering and inspiring collection of stories that exposes the evil of ISIS and why it sought to wage terror on civilians in a desperate attempt to create an antiquated caliphate. As Jason and Hollie discuss in the podcast, to stare down evil is a reminder of how difficult life can be, but also a lot of good can come from this process, as Hollie captures in her writings. Further Reading Only Cry for the Living: Memos From Inside the ISIS Battlefield, Hollie McKay (Amazon) Articles by Hollie McKay --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/support

On this podcast lawyer and GLA President Jason Poblete speaks with Dr. Gregory H. Stanton is the founding president and chairmanof Genocide Watch.From 2010 to 2019, he wasa research professor in genocide studies and prevention at the Schoolfor Conflict Analysis and Resolution atGeorge Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, USA.From 2003 to 2009, he was the James Farmer Professor in Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Dr. Stanton founded Genocide Watch in 1999. Hewas the founder (1981) and director of the Cambodian Genocide Projectand is currently the founder (1999) and chair of the Alliance Against Genocide, the world’s first anti-genocide coalition. From 2007-2009, he was the president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Genocide Watch exists to predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder. In addition, genocide Watch seeks to raise awareness and influence public policy concerning potential and actual genocide. Genocide Watch uses predictive models such as Dr. Gregory Stanton’s “The Ten Stages of Genocide” to analyze high-risk situations for education, policy analysis, and advocacy. Further Reading Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (United Nations). The Ten Stages of Genocide Customary International Humanitarian Database (Int'l Committee of the Red Cross). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/support

Upon arrival at the Beirut airport, Lebanese officials kept Mr. Amer Fakhoury U.S. passport as part of a routine procedure he was told for former Lebanese nationals who had not been in the country for more than 20 years. Accompanied by his wife and two of his four daughters, Amer, a New Hampshire businessman who was returning to his ancestral homeland for a family vacation, perhaps thought nothing of it at the time. Little did he and his family know at the time what would transpire a few days later. On this podcast, two of his four daughters, Guila and Zoya, share this remarkable story about their father, a freedom-loving Catholic and soldier. He fought for a democratic Lebanon free of terrorists, such as Hezbollah. Amer's story started decades before, in Southern Lebanon, where Amer defended his homeland from terrorists who have since taken over his ancestral homeland. Forced to leave and start his life in America with his family, they lived the American dream that became a nightmare on September 12, 2019. Determined to hold the perpetrators to account and help other American families going through similar struggles, the Amer Fakhoury Foundation provides advocacy, emotional, and financial support to the victims and their families. In addition, the Foundation works to ensure anti-torture laws are created and implemented in countries that enforce torture on helpless victims. Further Reading Amer Fakhoury Foundation Senator Jeanne Shaheen's (D-New Hampshire) press release announcing the release of Amer Fakhoury from captivity in Lebanon (March 19, 2020). Amer Fakhoury Foundation's "September 12 - A Day of Remembrance," via YouTube. (September 11, 2021). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/support

On November 9, 2005, President George W. Bush awarded Paul Rusesabagina the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom for saving the lives of thousands during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. A real-life hero of the acclaimed film Hotel Rwanda and the President and Founder of the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, Paul served as the Hotel des Mille Collines manager in Kigali. He bravely risked his life to shelter Hutus and Tutsis, seeking refuge from the genocide that killed more than 800,000 people. But, in a bizarre twist of fate, last week, Mr. Rusesabagina was sentenced to 25 years by a Rwandan court that international law experts have repeatedly said was a sham legal proceeding orchestrated by Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, Mr. Rusesabagina's long-time adversary. On this podcast, Jason Poblete speaks with one of Paul's six children, Ms. Anaïse Kanimba, about her father's plight for freedom and justice in Rwanda. Further Reading Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation Rights Groups Condemn Rwandan Court Conviction of Paul Rusesabagina, Voice of America (Sep. 22, 2021). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/global-liberty-alliance/support

Jason Poblete President of the Global Liberty Alliances discussed recent events in Cuba with EWTN

Congreso mundial sobre la justicia universal y la responsabilidad de proteger frente a los crímenes de lesa humanidad”, organizado por la Universidad Pedro de Valdivia UPV y el Grupo Iberoamericano para la Justicia Internacional (GIJI). Para mas informacion visitar https://www.upv.cl/2021/02/01/con-exito-culmina-congreso-mundial-sobre-la-justicia-universal-y-la-responsabilidad-de-proteger-frente-a-los-crimenes-de-lesa-humanidad/

A clip from an interview with CBN News story broadcast Feb. 9, 2021, Talk of 'Deprogramming' Trump Supporters is Giving Refugees from Communism 'Flashbacks'. The full story is available at https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2021/february/talk-of-deprogramming-trump-supporters-is-giving-refugees-from-communism-flashbacks

Congreso mundial sobre la justicia universal y la responsabilidad de proteger frente a los crímenes de lesa humanidad”, organizado por la Universidad Pedro de Valdivia UPV y el Grupo Iberoamericano para la Justicia Internacional (GIJI). Para mas informacion visitar https://www.upv.cl/2021/02/01/con-exito-culmina-congreso-mundial-sobre-la-justicia-universal-y-la-responsabilidad-de-proteger-frente-a-los-crimenes-de-lesa-humanidad/

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ISTANBUL —Iran on Tuesday freed Nizar Zakka, a U.S. permanent resident and Lebanese national, from prison after nearly four years behind bars, following a months-long effort by Lebanese officials to secure his release. Zakka, who was arrested in 2015 and convicted of spying for the U.S. government, was on his way to his native Lebanon on Tuesday, his lawyer said. An Iranian court had sentenced him to 10 years in prison on espionage charges — accusations he denies. Subscribe to the Post Most newsletter: Today’s most popular stories on The Washington Post “After more than 1,350 days in captivity in Iran, we have received excellent news: Mr. Nizar Zakka is a free man,” his Washington-based lawyer, Jason Poblete, said in an emailed statement. “Nizar looks forward to reuniting with family and friends,” Poblete said. “Nizar expresses his sincerest thanks to those who never forgot him.”