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National Political Prisoner Coalition

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News Super Bowl Performer Charged After Gaza and Sudan Flag Protest
Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu faced two misdemeanor charges after displaying a protest flag during the February 2025 halftime show.
News U.S. Renews Targeted Campaign Against Exiled Political Prisoner Assata Shakur
Federal and New Jersey officials have renewed a coordinated effort to force Cuba to surrender Assata Shakur, pairing an extradition bill and state resolution with new diplomatic pr...
News Forty Years After the MOVE Bombing, Philadelphia Remembers the Dead
The police bombing of MOVE’s home killed eleven people, including five children, and destroyed a neighborhood. The fortieth anniversary is a day of remembrance and an unfinished re...
Press Releases 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...
News Over 1300 Student Visas Revoked by Trump Admin in Chilling Attack on Civil Liberties
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...
News Trump Administration creates Chilling Effect on free speech by weaponizeing Immigration Enforcement to Silences Political Opposition
The detention of pro-Palestinian students and scholars prompted legal challenges over whether immigration powers were being used to punish protected speech.
News Attorney General Directs Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Luigi Mangione
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on April 1, 2025, that she had instructed acting U.S. Attorney for Manhattan Matthew Podolsky to pursue the death penalty against Luigi Mangion...
News Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly Five Decades of Incarceration
Leonard Peltier left the federal prison in Coleman, Florida, on February 18, 2025, to begin home confinement in North Dakota. He was 80 and had spent nearly 49 years in custody. "T...
News President Biden Commutes Sentence of Indigenous Activist Leonard Peltier
In the last hours of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement elder who has spent nearly fifty years in federal prison for t...
News The 2024 U.S. Political-Prisoner Year-End: Who Came Home, Who Didn't, Who Died Inside
Assange’s release, the end of Hale’s home confinement and Peltier’s parole denial were among the year’s major developments.
News Campus Arrests and Disciplinary Cases Followed the 2024 Encampments
The legal consequences of the spring protests varied by campus and jurisdiction. Arrest figures cannot establish how many people were convicted or disciplined.
News Protest-Related Cases in 2024 Used Different Legal Powers
The Atlanta Solidarity Fund case and sanctions against Samidoun illustrate distinct uses of criminal law and financial restrictions.