{"id":1530695,"date":"2022-06-28T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530695"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:48:08","slug":"jan-6-defendants-face-despicable-conditions-jan-6-advocacy-group-founder-top-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jan-6-defendants-face-despicable-conditions-jan-6-advocacy-group-founder-top-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 6 Defendants Face \u2018Despicable\u2019 Conditions: Jan. 6 Advocacy Group Founder, Top Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjan-6-defendants-face-despicable-conditions-jan-6-advocacy-group-founder-top-attorney%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530695&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, Cynthia Hughes, founder of the Jan. 6 defendant advocacy group \u201cPatriot Freedom Project\u201d (PFP) and top Jan. 6 attorney Joe McBride discussed their experiences, describing \u201cdespicable\u201d conditions and a pressing desire to ensure that the rights of these defendants are respected.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Jan. 6, 2021, \u201cStop the Steal\u201d rally in Washington, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under Attorney General Merrick Garland undertook one of the largest manhunts in DOJ history to round up anyone implicated in the Capitol breach.<\/p>\n<p>The resource-intensive hunt, which is still ongoing after 17 months, has stirred a great deal of controversy in the wake of disturbing reports about the treatment of Jan. 6 defendants.<\/p>\n<p>Many Republican lawmakers have refused to touch the issue, while no Democrat has made any comment on the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>A few lawmakers, prominently Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), have spoken out against the treatment of these detainees, but they have been unable to make serious progress in bettering the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Many remaining in captivity have continued to report mistreatment and abuse by facility staff and guards.<\/p>\n<p> They\u2019re \u2018Denied Every Basic Human Right\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Frustrated by the mistreatment and lack of information about one of her family members that had been arrested in connection to the Jan. 6 rally, Cynthia Hughes founded PFP. In an interview, Hughes described the treatment of her nephew, Tim Hale-Cusanelli, in detainment, saying that Hale-Cusanelli and other Jan. 6 detainees have been mistreated by the justice system and have faced deprivation of \u201cevery basic human right you can think of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started the Patriot Freedom Project after my nephew was arrested in January of 2021 on nonviolent charges,\u201d Hughes said.<\/p>\n<p>After being \u201cbounced around\u201d several jails in New Jersey, Hughes said, Hale-Cusanelli ended<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, Cynthia Hughes, founder of the Jan. 6 defendant advocacy group \u201cPatriot Freedom Project\u201d (PFP) and top Jan. 6 attorney Joe McBride discussed their experiences, describing \u201cdespicable\u201d conditions and a pressing desire to ensure that the rights of these defendants are respected. Following the Jan. 6, 2021, \u201cStop [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}