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Support Alex Saab Defense Team’s Work to Win His Release

October 8, 2021 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Featured, Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

Statement by Workers World Party, published on Workers World, October 7, 2021 The U.S. is accusing Alex Saab of a crime related violating the U.S. Unilateral Coercive Economic Measures. Even if these measures were legal, which they are not, Saab is not a U.S. citizen and not subject to U.S. Law. What he was actually doing is arranging to purchase[…]

The struggle to free Alex Saab continues

September 17, 2021 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, September 10, 2021 Despite delays, legal appeals, protests, formal delegations and petitions signed by many thousands, the United States has continued to demand the extradition of Alex Saab. He is being held imprisoned in the small nation of Cabo Verde. Saab was abducted by order of the U.S., when his plane stopped for[…]

The Case of Alex Saab – US abduction of Venezuelan Diplomat, a Global Challenge

June 15, 2021 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

by Sara Flouders and Roger D. Harris, June 12, 2021 With the possible extradition of a Venezuelan diplomat to the US on bogus charges, an emergency human rights delegation organized by the International Campaign to Free Alex Saab was quickly dispatched to Cabo Verde, where he is imprisoned. This island archipelago nation off the west coast of Africa is one[…]

Delegation fights to win Alex Saab’s freedom

June 8, 2021 UNAC Editor Africa, Citizen Diplomacy, Lawfare, Venezuela

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, June 6, 2021 Sal Island, Cabo Verde Flounders took part in a delegation that traveled to Cabo Verde in solidarity with Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who was abducted in June 2020 on orders of the U.S. and held under onerous conditions since then on two of C.V.’s ten islands. Cabo Verde is an[…]