US Political Prisoners — Joint Stakeholder Report to the UN UPR (Annex 23)

U.S. Human Rights Network (USHRN) and partner organizations · 2010 · U.S. Human Rights Network (USHRN)

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Joint stakeholder report submitted by the U.S. Human Rights Network (USHRN) and partner organizations to the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Session 09 in 2010. Annex 23 documents the continued imprisonment of U.S. political prisoners — including former Black Panther Party members, Puerto Rican independentistas, MOVE members, and others — and calls on the U.S. government to acknowledge and address its political-prisoner problem under international human rights law.