Defamed, persecuted, harassed, and since March of this year cut off from the outside world, in Flat 3B, Knightsbridge, London, the founder of Wikileaks waits to learn the fate of his asylum status. It is a position that current Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno has put at risk, but Assange is built for battles of this size. The former Consul of Ecuador knows him well, and wanted to speak out.
Human Rights
Victoria Brittain: a truth seeker and a speaker for the persecuted
She spent most of her lifetime fighting in the frontline, speaking up for the human rights of those who are not powerful enough to raise their voice. Not seeing herself as an activist, she just tries to hold onto the truth she sees with her own eyes, and be true to her beliefs.
Efigenia, the face of the invisible journalists
All deaths hurt, but those that carry the horror of violence are overwhelming. And the pain is sharper and mixed with anger when certain murders don’t carry the right ‘label’ for a good debut in the media, nor merit the words of governors, politicians, of national or international human rights […]
Detainees I – Becky, twice detained: a migrant in Yarl’s Wood
After six years living in the United Kingdom, she was detained for five and then seven months. This is the story of a Cameroonian woman who saw people die in detention and gives her account to The Prisma.
A Latino behind bars: José’s detention
Neither the fact that his papers were being processed nor his mobility problems were enough to stop this Venezuelan being detained for nearly 4 months in a detention centre for immigrants in the UK. Here he describes the raids, the scant medical attention and the tricks of the Home Office to force deportation.
















