Sophocles created a noble type of conscientious objector in Antigone, who refused to obey the law of the State, and illegally gave her brother burial, acting, as she said, in free obedience to ...

Conscientious objector Süver started a hunger strike 14 days ago after his escape from prison and his arrest one day later. On 3 May, he was taken to a closed prison in Manisa where a 20-day isolation ...

Conscientious objector Şendoğan Yazıcı has been sentenced to five months and 18 days in prison for allegedly "inciting disobedience to the law" under Article 217 of the Turkish Penal Code. The ...

An Emotionally Grueling Decision. Shaken by the United States’ support for Israel’s protracted bombing campaign on Gaza, Metzler took the dramatic step of applying for conscientious objector ...

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But it doesn’t take a lot of courage to be a conscientious objector to something that everyone is objecting to. It is easier to object to racism today than it was to object to slavery in 1850.

The demonstration in Berlin against the Zelensky regime in Ukraine. On January 16, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled in a landmark decision that the extradition of a conscientious objector ...

You’re a conscientious objector yourself. Talk about your own decision, when you made it, and the state of the movement of conscientious objectors today in Israel. HAGGAI MATAR: Sure.

York didn’t need nods or Gucci gear to be lethal—he just needed faith, a clean rifle, and the will to get up and move forward when hell broke loose.