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Political Prisoners/Prisoners of Conscience AlterLinks Topic Index Abu-Jamal, Mumia Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An African-American activist who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His conviction was based on dubious evidence and dubious legal proceedings. (Born 1954). America's Own Political Prisoners From Mandela to Oscar López Rivera Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Nelson Mandela's death has elicited a predictable outpouring of accolades. Glowing praise is now coming from American politicians as disparate as Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama. But this praise comes with the recasting, perhaps rebranding, of the amazing man that was Nelson Mandela. Amnesty International Action Campaign focusses on Malyasian Prsioner Assigned to Toronto Group Resource Type: Article Published: 1979 This news release is background information of Amnesty International's (AI) "Malaysia Mission Report." The concern of AI is the release of political prisoners in Malaysia. Amnesty International, Canadian Section Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization Amnesty International Letter-Writing Guide and Handbook Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 A handbook on how to write letters for Amnesty International. The Arrest and Detention of Amer Jubran This is Not News Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Amer Jubran might sit indefinitely in detention without charges. Or he may be brought up at any time and charged with “terrorism” before the State Security Court, a rubber stamp court. If so, his lawyer might be told the charges a day or two before the sham trial, which then leads to inevitable conviction–a mere formality. Only a concerted political campaign that gets widespread international attention can make any difference. It’s up to us to create enough visibility to make that possible. Bil'in: Palestinian Village Under Attack Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Leaders of non-violent protests in Bil'in village against Israeli settlements and occupation arrested by Israeli occupation forces. International supporters are asked to support the non-violent resistance in the face of Israeli attempts to crush it. Bilin's Mohammad Khatib arrested Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 One month after touring Canada key Palestinian activist kidnapped by Israeli soldiers in another in a series of raids that Israeli occupation forces have carried out in Bil#in since June 2009, raids that commenced in tandem to the commencement of legal proceedings in Canada. Briefe aus dem Gefangnis Resource Type: Book Published: 1946 Canadian Information Sharing Service Pilot Copy, February 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976 The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest. Canadian Information Sharing Service Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976 Canadian Information Sharing Service Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977 Canadian Information Sharing Service Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978 The Case of Oscar Lopez Rivera Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Examing the criminal case against and incarceration of Oscar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican activist and organiser charged and convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1980. China Deprives Uyghur Prisoner Right to Legal Counsel Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned that undue political pressure has been applied to a defence lawyer to make her withdraw from defending a Uyghur scholar accused of separatism. China puts Tibetan writer and husband under house arrest amid Kerry Visit Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Chinese Authorities placed Tsering Woeser and her husband, Wang Lixiong, under house arrest on July 9 during US Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to China. China: Human Rights activist detained for six months without charge Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Since September 2017, human rights activist Zhen Jianghua has been in police detention and his lawyer Ren Quanniu has been denied access to his client. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) demand the immediate release of Zhen Jianghua. The CIA's Memory Prison A Perverse Logic Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The U.S. government has ruled that the prisoners kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. cannot talk about their experiences because those experiences are the property of the U.S. government, which has classified them as secret national security information. This means the prisoners’ personal stories, recollections and experiences cannot be told in any open court, recounted to journalists or human rights groups, nor can they be heard by international bodies like the United Nations. Concern about blogger's condition after second flogging postponed Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Reporters Without Borders is relieved that the Saudi authorities have postponed blogger Raif Badawiâ's second session of 50 lashes on medical grounds but is very concerned about his health and urges the authorities to abandon this barbaric punishment altogether. Connexions Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982 Connexions Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1986 CPJ condemns harsh prison sentences for Journalists in Egypt Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 CPJ talk about its opinions on the sentencing of 3 journalists to long prison sentences in Egypt on terrorism-related charges. CPJ welcomes release of Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste, who was serving a seven-year prison sentence in Egypt for "conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood," was deported today, according to Egypt's state-run news agency. Day of Mourning Statement From Leonard Peltier Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 It is yet another year. It seems like a thousand years ago but only a year in time in reality from the last time I dictated one of these statement for the day of mourning so, again, I want to say as last time, that I am honoured that you would want to hear my words. Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive Resource Type: Article Writings of Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926). Don't forget Liu Xiaobo, held for the past five years Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Reporters Without Borders reiterates its full support for Chinese free speech advocate Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize and his family and stresses the importance of his fight. Editor of Chinese website, missing for a month, arrested on anti-state charges Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 An editor and secretary-general of a human rights group in China has been was abducted and charged with "inciting subversion of state power" by the Chinese government. The chinese government is infamous for using this charge to silence dissenting journalists. Escape from Camp 14 The first political prisoner born in a North Korean labour camp to make it past the fence and flee Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 An excerpt from a book of the same title narrating the harrowing experiences of Shin Dong-hyuk. He is believed to be the only camp-born person to have escaped the North Korean prison labor camps that detain up to two hundred-thousand political prisoners. Ethiopia's Zone9 Bloggers Head Back to Court After 15 Months Behind Bars Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Five members of Ethiopia's Zone9 blogging collective expect to learn their fate this Wednesday, August 19, 2015, when a panel of three judges will meet at Addis Ababa's Lideta High Court to rule on whether the defendants will walk free or or face another round of trial. The Fight for Leonard Peltier Resource Type: Article Published: 1999 LEONARD PELTIER, A Native American class-war prisoner, has served twenty-three years in federal prisons for a crime he did not commit—and authorities admit they do not know who did it. 41 Years Since Jumping Bull (But 500 Years of Trauma) Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Leonard Peltier writes about his own case and about the 500 years of violence and injustice directed at indigenous peoples. Four years in prison for cyber-dissident Xu Zhiyong Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Reporters Without Borders deplores the four-year jail sentence that Beijing Intermediate Court No. 1 imposed on the cyber-dissident Xu Zhiyong on 26 January on a charge of gathering a crowd to disturb public order. 14 Years of Injustice Time to Free the Cuban Five Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Five Cubans fighting terrorism in south Florida have served 14 years of prison, more than enough time for the US public to learn from its media about the horrific injustice done by the US government to these Cuban men. But the media has barely touched the grotesque frame up of the Cuban Five. God's Spies Stories in Defiance of Oppression Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Short stories on the theme of resistance to oppression. Guantánamo Diary Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 Slahi's diary recounting his life as a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Guantanamo North Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 After September 11, 2001, Canadian governments made significant changes to the law so that non-citizens with suspected links to terrorism could be held indefinitely with no due process. The Courts held that these and other changes including "judicial interrogations" and "convictions for terrorism without intent" are consistent with the Charter of Rights. The range of state secrecy extends now to everything related to national security. Diab contends that these measures are unnecessary and contrary to human rights and freedom. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 How Israel Stacks the Legal Deck Court System Provides Little Justice for Palestinians Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 To Palestinians, Israeli military courts are sites of repression, not houses of justice. Palestinian defendants facing trial in 2010 were found guilty in 99.74% cases. A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping's new China Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Peter Dahlin tells the story of his incarceration and expulsion from the People's Republic of China, where he spent 23 days in a 'black prison' in Beijing and was deprived of sleep and questioned with a 'communication enhancement' machine. The Humiliation of Bradley Manning Kangaroos Missing Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 It is a bitter irony that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, whose conscience compelled him to leak evidence about the U.S. military brass ignoring evidence of torture in Iraq, was himself the victim of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment while other military officers privately took note but did nothing. Hunger strike threatens health of Palestinian journalist in Israeli jail Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists' syndicate (PJS) are deeply concerned over the health of a Palestinian journalist who has been on hunger strike for almost 50 days. I Am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now The Denial of My Parole Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence. I Stand Before You as a Proud Man - I Feel No Guilt Resource Type: Article Published: 1978 IFJ Accuses Iran over Massive Attack on Media and Journalists Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The International Federation of Journalists warned that a massive attack on independent media in Iran which has seen the jailing of journalists and a continuing crackdown on free expression reveals the desperation of the regime to curb democracy. IFJ and EFJ condemn "outrageous" 7.5 year jail sentence for Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have today condemned the sentencing of Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova to 7.5 years in jail IFJ and INSI Join Global Call for Release of Journalists in Gambia Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the International News Safety Institute (IFJ) call for the urgent release of jailed journalists in Gambia, adding their voices to growing global protest at the press freedom crisis in the country. IFJ and FAJ demand release of journalist and lawyer jailed in Swaziland Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The International Federation of Journalists and its African group, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), have together asked the release of Bheki Makhubu, editor of The Nation-Swaziland, and his lawyer Thulani Maseko Incarcerated Inside Israel Palestinians Tortured and Isolated Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care, such is the Israeli judicial system and prison confinement experienced by Palestinian men, women and indeed children. International rights groups call for release of seriously ill Chinese journalist Gao Yu Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Fifteen human rights and press freedom organizations are urging Chinese President Xi Jinping to immediately release seriously ill journalist Gao Yu from prison. In a letter, the organizations also called for the release of all those held for the peaceful expression of their political views and in need of medical attention, as well as access to adequate medical care for all prisoners. IPI World Press Freedom Hero Mazen Darwish released from prison Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Renowned Syrian journalist Mazen Darwish, the International Press Institute's 2015 World Press Freedom Hero, has been freed after spending nearly three-and-a-half years behind bars on spurious terrorism charges. Iran: Appeal by European journalists for release of reporter Fariba Pajooh Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 We journalists working for the media in Europe have united to ask for Fariba Pajooh#s immediate and unconditional release. Iran must stop denying medical care to imprisoned journalists Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the appalling conditions in which journalists are detained in Iran and calls on the authorities to stop denying them medical attention. Islamic Republic urged to free all detained journalists and online activists Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 In the wake of Iran's historic agreement with the United States on its nuclear programme, Reporters Without Borders calls on President Hassan Rouhani to keep another promise - the immediate release of all detained journalists and online activists Israel sentences two to prison terms for censorship breach Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Israeli court decision to sentence two television journalists on charges of breaching the military censorship law during the offensive in Gaza in December and January. Jail terms upheld for Shiite opposition members, trials of photographers begin Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Reporters Without Borders condemns a special court’s decision in Bahrain on to uphold the prison sentences that were passed on 14 members of the Shiite opposition. Journalistic Malpractice at the Post and the Times Rejecting the Offer of Evidence of US War Crimes Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Wikileaks source Bradley Manning is evidence that the USA’s two leading news organizations, the Washington Post and the New York Times, are not willing to report critically of the government. Justice for Hassan Diab and the Unbearable Banality of Evil Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Deutsch examines the case of Dr. Hassan Diab - a sociology professor and Canadian citizen who was accused of bombing the Rue Copernic Synagogue - and uses it to critique international and domestic justice systems. Kengir uprising Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A prisoner uprising that took place in the Soviet prison labor camp Kengir in May and June 1954. Lengthy prison term for Bradley Manning Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Reporters Without Borders condemned the 35-year prison sentence meted out today to U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning on charges including 10 counts of espionage and theft. Leonard Peltier: 'My Last Hope for Freedom' Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Leonard Peltier is a political prisoner and Native freedom fighter who has been unjustly incacerated for 40 years. The International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee is ramping up efforts for Peltier's clemency under U.S. President Obama’s last year in office. This may be his last chance at freedom and justice. Find out how you can help achieve Peltier's freedom here: whoisleonardpeltier.info. The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 Blending a passionate sensibility and a steely intellect with an unshakeable commitment to revolutionary socialism, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. In this comprehensive collection selection of Luxemburg's letters, her political concerns are revealed alongside the story of a vivid inner life. Long Distance Revolutionary A Journal with Mumia Abu-Jamal Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2012 The life and situation of Mumia Abu Jamal. The Man Died The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 Manning verdict blow for investigative journalism and its sources Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Reporters Without Borders regards today's verdict in U.S. Army private Bradley Manning's trial as dangerous. Although acquitted of "aiding the enemy," he was found guilty of five counts of espionage and five counts of theft, for which he could Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 21 Marx and Engels 1867 - 1870 Resource Type: Book Materials related to the International Workingmen's Association. Memoirs from the Women's Prison Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Nawal El Saadawi was imprisoned in 1981 by Anwar Sadat for alleged "crimes against the State." She offers both firsthand witness to women's resistance to state violence and insights into the formation of women's community. Saadawi describes how political prisoners, both secular intellectuals and Islamiists, forged alliances to demand better conditions. Men in Prison Resource Type: Book Published: 1931 Victor Serge's novel based on his own experiences as a politcal prisoner. Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Khatib's arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bilin to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees - the leadership of the popular struggle - who are then charged with incitement when arrested. Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Mohammed Khatib#s arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bil#in to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest . Much Has Been Said... Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 In the wake of Nelson Mandela, Finkel brings attention to contemporary political activists being imprisoned by their governments. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond; Political Prisoners In The Sacrifice Zone Of Empire Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky. Nelson Mandela's Long Walk Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A look at Nelson Mandela's book, "Long Walk to Freedom" in the context of the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1980s. News and Letters Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective. 1976 Prisoner of Conscience Week Booklet Resource Type: Article Published: 1976 A list of 14 prisoners on conscience. Chosen for Prisoner of Conscience Week. One year in jail and still no justice for Peter Greste Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its Australian affiliate, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) in calling for the immediate release of Australian journalist, Peter Greste, who will today mark 365 days in an Egyptian jail. Oscar Lopez Rivera and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence An Indomitable Spirit of Resistance Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Oscar López Rivera has served 32 years in the dungeons of imperialism for the crime of fighting for the independence of Puerto Rico as a member of the Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN). The continued militancy of Oscar López Rivera, after more than three decades of imprisonment, is a living testimony of the indomitable will to resist all attempts to break the combative spirit of a man, who has become a symbol of his people, yearning for freedom. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016 Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017 Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017 Resisting Injustice Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power. Outrage as Al-Jazeera retrial ends with three-year jail terms Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the three-year jail sentences that a Cairo court, after many postponements, finally passed today on Al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Peter Geste, who were convicted of disseminat Pankhurst, Emmeline Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article English women's suffrage movement leader. (1858-1928). Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand action Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway for the General Meeting (GM) of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX). Peltier, Leonard Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article American activist and member of the American Indian Movement. (Born 1944). Petition for the Immediate Release of all Prisoners of Conscience 1977: Prisoners of Conscience Year Resource Type: Article Published: 1977 During 1977, Amnesty International is attempting to bring the situation of prisoners of conscience into stronger international focus. As part of this effort they are circulating a petition for which they hope to get one million signatures. Political Prisoners in the Sacrifice Zone of Empire Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky. Political Prisoners in the USA Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 A list of political prisoners in the USA (with links to support websites). Political Prisoners Remain Behind Bars as Obama's Term Nears End Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 In the last full week of Barack Obama's eight year tenure as President of the United States of America, dozens of political prisoners still sit in cages across the nation's prisons, rotting away as Obama consciously chooses not to exercise the power to simply free them with the stroke of a pen. Predicting Torture The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Bradley Manning is charged with leaking classified documents to Wikileaks and faces a court martial. The conditions of his confinement are extreme, and amount to torture. Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 A collection of interviews, meditations and reflections on the current American prison system from the perspectives of past and current inmates. Berrigan, a political prisoner in Connecticut, shares thoughts about his radical activities, the inadequacy of the legal system, the failure of the prison system to rehabilitate, the meaning of true church reform, and the future of the radical movement in the US. Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number Resource Type: Book Published: 1981 The story of Timmerman's 30 months as a political prisoner under the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s. Prisoners of the War on Terror Time to Give up "Hope" and Think About Active Change Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Status of prisoners of war in Guantanamo. Professor Homa Hoodfar -- detained in Iran Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 On the arrest in Iran of renowned anthropologist and Concordia University Professor Homa Hoodfar. The Prosecution and Persecution of Bradley Manning Setting An Example Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The desire to strip Manning of careful intent has been a tactic of the government that is prosecuting him and the mainstream media who parrot their propaganda from the start. Psychologists' Collusion in Ongoing Illegal Detentions The Status Quo of Torture Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Radical Digressions 4 Resource Type: Website Published: 2008 Red Rosa A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life. Review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 A book review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island. Revolutionary Nonviolence Essays by Dave Dellinger Resource Type: Book Published: 1971 Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives. Rosa Luxemburg Selected Political Writings Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings. Rosa Luxemburg Speaks Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg. RSF decries Saudi citizen-journalist's jail term and writing ban Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the four-year jail sentence and 15-year writing ban that a Saudi court passed yesterday on writer and citizen-journalist Zuhair Kutbi as "unjust and disproportionate." Sad anniversary for Eritrean press freedom Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Dawit Isaak, a journalist with Swedish and Eritrean dual nationality who used to work for the Eritrean newspaper Setit in Asmara, is spending his 5,000th day in prison today, May 2, 2015. He has never been sentenced or even charged. Security Certificate Detainee Mahjoub Rallies with Supporters Marking Exactly 12 Years of Detention wit Charge Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 On June 26th, Mohammad Mahjoub and his supporters will gather to demand his immediate liberation and that of the other two men still held under security certificates. Sentence Against US Journalists in North Korea is Inhumane and Unjust, Says IFJ Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) called for the immediate release of the two United States journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who have been jailed by North Korea. "Shawkan" in very poor health after two years of provisional detention Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Reporters Without Borders calls for Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid's immediate release and the withdrawal of all the charges against him at his next court appearance on 17 August, three days after he will have completed his second year Six Eritrean journalists released after nearly six years in prison Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Six Eritrean journalists (Bereket Misghina, Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu and Basilios Zemo of Radio Bana, Meles Negusse Kiflu), who had been held since a wave of arrests in February 2009, were released probationally. The Smile of Policeman Agadi Resource Type: Article Published: 2002 An account of the abuse of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system. Sofri, Adriano Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Italian radical intellectual, a journalist and a writer. (Born 1942). The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work Resource Type: Article Swazi writers still in jail a year later Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A year has passed since the respected journalist Bheki Makhubu was jailed in Africa's last absolute monarchy. Reporters Without Borders is appalled by his unjustified two-year prison sentence for contempt of court. Taken Offline: New EFF Project Shines Light on Coders and Bloggers Imprisoned For Online Free Expression Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched the Offline project, a campaign devoted to digital heroes - coders, bloggers, and technologists - who have been imprisoned, tortured, and even sentenced to death for raising their voices online 10 years in prison for circulating information in public interest Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Jeremy Hammond, a 28-year-old WikiLeaks informant and cyber-activist linked to Anonymous, has become the fourth whistleblower to receive a long jail sentence this year in the United States. Terrorism, COINTELPRO, And The Black Panther Party Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 There's still one injustice in Cuba to which Americans are wilfully blind Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 While criticizing Cuba for human rights violations, American politicians ignore the massive abuses taking place in their own prison at Guantanamo Bay. Tunisian journalist in desert prison could die from untreated asthma attacks Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukadous has been in extremely poor health since police arrested him on 15 July to begin serving a four-year jail sentence for covering protests in the Gafsa mining region of Tunisia. Updating Some U.S. Political Prisoners January 2019 Resource Type: Article Published: 2019 An update on political prisoners in the United States. Uyghur journalist and website editor sentenced to fifteen years in jail Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged at the harshness of a 15-year prison sentence handed down to journalist Gheyret Niyaz by a court in Urumqi, in Xinjiang province, China. Vorkuta uprising Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A major uprising of the concentration camp inmates in Vorkuta, Russia in July-August 1953. We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza. Well-known Azerbaijan journalist gets five years on absurd charge Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The latest victim of the crackdown that the authorities began last summer is the well-known journalist Seymour Khazi, who was sentenced to five years in prison on a trumped-up charge of aggravated hooliganism at the end of a sham trial yesterday. The Whistleblower's Tale How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA — and Lost Everything Resource Type: Unclassified A CIA officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for whistleblowing and filing lawsuits of racial discrimination against the CIA. This is a story of a man who was beaten down and stood back up just to be beaten down again. Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison? Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit. Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island The Anti-Empire Report Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 WiPC issues a call for solidarity for persecuted writers Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 To mark the Day of the Imprisoned Writer (DoIW) on 15 November, the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN (WiPC) is highlighting the cases of imprisoned writers and honouring those who have been slain for defending free speech. Writers in Prison Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 An analysis of the work of imprisoned writers. Yemenis Have Moms Too Michelle Obama, Open Your Heart Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Abdurahman al-Shubati disappeared more than a decade ago, just 18-years-old and teaching abroad, separated from his family for the first time in life. Join us in calling on Michelle Obama to open her heart to the cries of Abdurahman’s mother and ask Barack to send those cleared home and to expedite the closing of Guantanamo.

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