National Political Prisoner Coalition
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Jessica Reznicek, the Catholic Worker activist who sabotaged Dakota Access Pipeline construction equipment in 2016 and 2017, spent all of 2024 in federal custody at the Federal Med...
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Reality Winner, Three Years Out: The Supervised-Release Restrictions That Have Followed Her Home
Reality Winner — the former NSA contractor who in 2017 leaked to The Intercept a single classified document on Russian military-intelligence efforts to interfere with U.S. state el...
The MOVE 9 — nine members of the Philadelphia Black liberation / naturalist commune sentenced to 30–100 years each for the August 8, 1978 police siege of MOVE's Powelton Village ho...
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Casey Goonan: The Bay Area Anarchist Indicted by the Feds Over a 2024 UC Berkeley Police-Car Arson
In July 2024, federal prosecutors in the Northern District of California indicted Casey Goonan, a 34-year-old Bay Area antifascist, on use-of-fire-to-damage-property charges arisin...
On July 2, 2024, the U.S. Parole Commission denied Leonard Peltier parole. He has been in federal custody since 1976. He will be 81 in September. The Parole Commission scheduled hi...
On June 25, 2024, in a U.S. federal courtroom in the Northern Mariana Islands, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to a single Espionage Act count, was sentenced to tim...
Press Releases
NPPA Announces Virtual Mailing Campaigning
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April 18, 2025American NGO Launches Virtual Message Campaign to Support Political Prisoners in the U.S.[City, State] – [NGO Name], a U.S.-based nonprofit orga...
Between April 17, 2024 (the Columbia encampment's first day) and the end of the spring semester, U.S. police arrested more than 3,100 people at pro-Palestine campus encampments acr...
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Steven Donziger After SCOTUS: The 2024 End-of-Road for the Chevron Lawyer's Constitutional Challenge
In April 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in the case of Steven Donziger — the U.S. human-rights lawyer prosecuted for criminal contempt by a private law firm appoint...
Policy Brief
Guidelines on the Definition of Political Prisoners
"Political prisoner" is one of the most powerful phrases in the human-rights vocabulary, and one of the least standardized. No single definition governs it in international law. In...
On February 25, 2024, U.S. Air Force active-duty service member Aaron Bushnell, 25, set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., declaring as he burned that...
On February 1, 2024, a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte to 40 years in prison for the 2017 "Vault 7" disclosure to WikiLeaks of the...