judge robert bryan's ruling comes as geo group is facing increasing scrutiny over its role of profiting off detention and family separation. on tuesday, the human rights group the dream defenders held a national day of action to protest the for-profit prison company, which is the immigration and customs enforcement agency's largest contractor. at least 16 actions took place in more than a dozen cities, including in boca raton, florida, where more than 100 people protested outside the geo group's headquarters. in more immigration news, a federal appeals court has ruled that the family of a 16-year-old mexican boy who was fatally shot in the head by a u.s. border patrol agent can file a civil lawsuit against the agent in the u.s. government for damages. jose antonio rodriguez was unarmed and walking along a sidewalk in nogales, sonora, in mexico, when border patrol agent lonnie swartz shot him 10 times through the border wall from the u.s. side in 2012. in april, a federal jury has -- had acquitted agent swartz on murder charges. he's now facing a retrial on manslaughter charges. in colom

the for-profit prison company geo group has threatened to sue the human rights group, the dream defenders, which is planning a national day of action today to protest the private prison company. biggestp is the single conflict receiving hundreds of millions of dollars to run private immigrant prisons. the dream defenders are planning to disrupt geo group operations in cities across the united states today, including in florida, arizona, california, and new york city. in wisconsin, a masked gunman opened fire on a madison community radio station early sunday morning, injuring one person. a station dj who shot in the buttocks was taken of the hospital and later discharged. wort fm has resumed normal programming sunday morning, just hours after the attack on their studio. no arrests have been made. broadcast to south-central wisconsin that has been on the air since 1975. the madison police told -- said they do not believe the attack was motivated by hatred of the media. and in new york, former black panther robert seth hayes has been released from prison after 45 years behind bars. he was co

happening and fortunately since i've spoken out i've seen a wave of people speaking out against geo group and of course evict in all forms of for profit detention of which was key is very much a part. why should say you know you're not just a human rights activist you're really a whistle blower on this stuff and that takes a lot of guts i work a lot of whistle blowers over the years so again thank you for that and it seems like one of the big issues that these are as you mentioned southwest key but these are for profit a lot of these are for profit institutions or some nonprofit organizations involved too but a report came out in the atlantic that indicated that these types of groups have spent more than three million dollars last year alone just lobbying in your opinion should there be a more critical eye on the for profit even though not for profit organizations that are involved in these dissention centers or what amount to really private prison camps. well unfortunately what's aroused of on this from this kind of dark a lot of private and public interest is basically you have a very h

for-profit immigration jail, have launched a strike and are refusing orders from ice and guards from the geo group corporation. the fathers are reportedly refusing meals, saying they've been denied their right to apply for asylum, have not been nonotified aboutut their immigrn status, and that ice officials misled them into agreeing to deportation in exchange for reuniting with their children. their sons refused to participate in classes on thursday. this is audio of one of the fathers, obtained by the immigrant rights legal support group raices. >> what worries me is that we are restrained from our freedom as human beings. our children are crying. it is so bad in here. we're told one of the detainees' sons tried to hang himself. i have talked to other detainees and there is a plan. we will not be eating and everyone has a great. amy: immigration and customs enforcement officials have denied a hunger strike is taking place inside karnes. on thursday, ice said in a statement that fewer than 50 people had participated in a brief sit-in protest and later dispersed. meanwhile, propublica reports that

amy: geo group facility, that is a large prison company that there was a mass protest against all over country weeks ago, with a facilitated your mother's -- your mother, salma sikandar, wearing an ankle bracelet, a monitor, since june. they took that monitor off yesterday. explain what happened this week. how this change, why ice said they were deporting her after she left her for 20 years and then the developments of this week. monday,happened was on we had our press conference and she started bawling her eyes out. she had read about this mother being wrongfully deported. she has no crime. so rosa started crying and she asked ice personally called him and asked them to grant my mother a stay or consider having a stay. what happen on tuesday was the beginning of the hunger strike in front of ice. my dad and nine other people, that hundreds of supporters came out to hartford to visit the geo office down the street. they started to protest there. at 2:00 or 3:00, they staged in front of ice and started pulling startedrabbing signs, the hunger strike, basically. 20 hours later, we got a

one geo group has a contract with ice, the immigration people for ankle bracelets.carlet: what standards do need to meet to be considered a real estate investment trusts? do these private companies also manage the prison and oversee the operation? rob: they have been owning the property. if you run a prison and own a prison, and say you run it under contract as they both do for many places, almost all of the things that go into running a prison, person doing the laundry, transportation, intake, picture andof the tax exempt. the incentive, and you see it has been happening a lot, to own the properties, and more and more they want to let someone else run it, but they are building one for the state of kansas. that is in leavenworth county. that is to replace an old one. scarlet: so their outsourcing that part? rob: their building and financing it but state employees will work there. -- a lot of people do not know that private companies run the prisons and that avoids that risk. scarlet: they do if you watch orange is the new black. toaine: you talk about best-performin

happening and fortunately since i've spoken out i've seen a wave of people speaking out against geo group and of course it can all forms of for profit detention of which south was key is very much a part. why should say you know you're not just a human rights activist you're really a whistle blower on this stuff and that takes a lot of guts i work a lot of whistle blowers over the years so again thank you for that and it seems like one of the big issues that these are as you mentioned southwest key but these are for profit a lot of these are for profit institutions or some nonprofit organizations involved too but a report came out in the atlantic that indicated that these types of groups have spent more than three million dollars last year alone just in lobbying in your opinion should there be a more critical eye on the for profit even though not for profit organizations that are involved in these dissention centers or what amount to really private prison camps. won't unfortunately what's aroused on this from this kind of dark a lot of private and public interest is basically you have a v

and adding to the commentary of doubt is phil gunson from the crisis group and then geo that works to study and prevent conflicts and he tweeted that the official investigation of the alleged assassination attempt against maduro takes the usual course it begins with the conclusions and works backwards and the country where ninety eight percent of crime goes unpunished governments truths resolve this kind of case in a matter of hours well let us know what you think of the story especially if you are in venezuela use the hash tag a genius grant thanks for here we have an occasional series on al-jazeera called the big picture and there is this episode maryam namazie hosting it from our studios in the shard in london it is called the battle for venezuela are examining the present day crisis by exploring the divisions rooted in its past studio guests experts plus in the field reporting it is the type of in-depth stuff which if i can say so we do really well here it out is there have a look for yourself the battle for venezuela the big picture it's in the documentary section at al-jazeera d

group of experts. undertook over fourteen missions to sun. and who. where we met. civilian authorities military authorities and geos and humanitarian workers. we visited. places where incidents occurred and places of detention and we question the victims and witnesses. furthermore we had we had the information received received during the missions and the personnel of the secretariat of the group of experts also conducted interviews that distance in order to gather and assess documentary proof photographs and videos the group of experts also requested. and assessed satellite images. the information documented by the group of experts would lead us to believe that the violations and crimes. that have been perpetrated and continue to be perpetrated in yemen by the parties to the conflict. the group of experts. reason to believe. that the government of yemen or. the united arab emirates and saudi arabia are responsible for violations of human rights the group of experts also has reason to believe. that the defacto authorities are responsible for violations of human rights committed within their regions where they hold effective control. the gro

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a regional government armed groups in the region have been fighting for autonomy in a conflict that has killed more than one hundred thousand people richard hey daryn is a geo political analyst and author he joins us via skype now from manila thanks very much for being with us so what do you make then. of all of this peace plan how significant is this. well it's very significant it's part of the two thousand and fourteen peace agreement. between the former government under that you know administration which is now the opposition it gets there it's a and then mori slimy liberation front m.i.l.f. which is the biggest rebel insurgency group in the philippines so now you're only going to eat president it's there it's a rather than his predecessor was able to mobilize just that if support to pass these somehow controversial law because over the past two or three years majority of filipinos according to surveys have been more critical and now more neutral about giving more political autonomy to morrow or the philippine muslims in the south so i think this is very essential steps towards creation of a sustainable peace in mindanao but definitely this is just one s