National Political Prisoner Coalition
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Jeanette Vizguerra-Ramirez spent nine months inside the GEO Group's immigration detention center in Aurora, Colorado. On December 22, 2025, she posted a $5,000 bond and walked out...
Imam Jamil Al-Amin - born Hubert Gerold Brown and known to a generation as H. Rap Brown - died on November 23, 2025 in federal custody at age 82, while a federal court was still we...
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration's drive to deport foreign students and scholars for pro-Palestinian speech was unconstitutional — after a year in which the...
Assata Shakur, the former Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army member who lived in Cuban political asylum for the last 41 years of her life, has died in Havana at the age...
The National Political Prisoner Coalition today announced that it is building a free mobile app for iOS and Android — putting its database of more than 7,000 political prisoners, i...
The National Political Prisoner Coalition today launched the NPPC Quiz, a free five-minute interactive quiz that asks where you stand on dissent and state power, measures what you...
A new NPPC report on transnational repression — how governments reach across borders to silence exiles, journalists, and diaspora communities — built on Freedom House's research, w...
Four months after he unfurled a stitched-together Palestinian and Sudanese flag on the field during Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX halftime show, New Orleans dancer Zul-Qarnain Kw...
Forty years ago today, on May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a satchel of military-grade C-4 explosive on the roof of a row house at 6221 Osage Avenue. Eleven...
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NPPC Launches the Political Prisoner Database Live Tracker
The National Political Prisoner Coalition has launched the Political Prisoner Database Live Tracker — a public, continuously updated dashboard mapping U.S. political prisoners, the...
International students across the United States began discovering, in the spring of 2025, that their legal status had simply vanished: no hearing, often no notice, sometimes no exp...
Within ninety days of the second Trump administration's return to the White House, a recognizable new template of political imprisonment had emerged: not criminal charges, but civi...