National Political Prisoner Coalition
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The Florida governor signs HB 1471 at a University of South Florida event one month after a federal judge enjoined his December executive order targeting CAIR. The new statute give...
A jury has convicted nine defendants on most counts in the Prairieland Trial. They face decades in federal prison. Supporters call for an April 4 International Day of Solidarity —...
The last person still in federal immigration custody from the 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestine protests walked out of a Texas detention center on a $100,000 bond — after a ye...
President Trump said Sunday night that news organizations reporting on the Iran war should face treason charges — a crime whose maximum penalty in the United States is death — esca...
An Army veteran burned a U.S. flag in Lafayette Park in front of the White House hours after the president signed an executive order purporting to criminalize the act. The Justice...
The National Political Prisoner Coalition joins Amnesty International, the National Press Photographers Association, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and a broad c...
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NPPC Mourns Paki Wieland, Peace Activist, 1943–2026
The National Political Prisoner Coalition mourns Paki Wieland, arrested for civil disobedience across six decades, who died March 12, 2026 at 82.
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Congressional Bill introduced to reform the Espionage Act
Editor's note: This article was written by Matthew Wills and originally published in JSTOR Daily on June 23, 2017 (updated September 20, 2019). It is reposted here with the author'...
The Justice Department's superseding indictment in the Cities Church protest case grows from nine defendants to thirty-nine, charging every named participant — including former CNN...
A federal judge in Boston has ordered immigration authorities to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's student record, unwinding one more piece of the government's campaign against the Tufts do...
Nicolás Maduro stood in a Manhattan courtroom in the first week of January and pleaded not guilty to four federal counts: narco-terrorism conspiracy, conspiracy to import cocaine,...
The court ruling that freed Mahmoud Khalil is gone. On January 15, 2026, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated the district court judgment that...