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Whistleblowers Conscientious Objectors & Military Resisters Civil Disobedience & Plowshares Political Prisoners in Exile Death-Row Political Prisoners Hunger Strikers Wrongfully Convicted / COINTELPRO Frame-Ups Recently Released Political Prisoners Elder Political Prisoners
RECENTLY RELEASED POLITICAL PRISONERS
Political prisoners released within the past decade through clemency, parole, sentence completion, or compassionate release. Includes Leonard Peltier (released to home confinement February 2025), Russell Maroon Shoatz (released October 2021, died December 2021), Mutulu Shakur (compassionate release December 2022, died July 2023), Sundiata Acoli (parole December 2022), Romaine 'Chip' Fitzgerald (parole 2023), Oscar López Rivera (commutation by Obama 2017), Chelsea Manning (commutation by Obama 2017).