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Egypt releases three journalists ahead of Eid al-Fitr
Al Jazeera #8 - 1 day ago
‘This is huge’: Nicaragua frees 222 political prisoners and flies them to US
Guardian #7 - 4 weeks ago
Nasrin Sotoudeh's Hunger Strike Amid Prison COVID-19 Outbreak
Time #4 - 11 months ago
55 Days Into Hunger Strike, Activist’s Mother Says She ‘Won’t Back Down’
New York Times #16 - 5 weeks ago
‘Repression breeds defiance’: Thai activists unbowed by detention
Al Jazeera #9 - 9 months ago
Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi released on bail after hunger strike
Guardian #48 - 2 months ago
Belarusian court sentences Nobel laureate Bialiatski to 10 years in prison
PBS NewsHour #11 - 6 weeks ago
Leroy Douglas stole a mobile phone – but he’s been in prison twenty years
Canary #2 - 8 hours ago
Palestinians in Gaza call to save seven hunger-striking prisoners
Al Jazeera #10 - 2 months ago
After 16 months behind bars, my friend Evan Gershkovich is free
Guardian #14 - 6 weeks ago
Spare a thought for Russia’s forgotten political prisoners
Spectator (UK) #6 - 5 weeks ago
Jason Rezaian: The Evin Prison fire brought me back to my time in jail there - The Washington Post
Washington Post #5 - 3 years ago
Belarus leader Lukashenko pardons 32 prisoners convicted for ‘extremism’
Al Jazeera #12 - 3 weeks ago
‘It’s a sham’: Egypt accused of restricting protest in run-up to Cop27
Guardian - 2 weeks ago
Myanmar’s Junta Releases Imprisoned American, Among Others
Time #9 - 2 months ago
U.S. lawmakers urge Egypt’s Sissi to release prisoners
Washington Post #21 - 4 years ago
Has Alexey Navalny moved on from his nationalist past?
Al Jazeera #5 - 5 months ago
Soviet-era dissident given ‘draconian’ jail sentence in Russia for anti-war views
Guardian #9 - 2 months ago
Belarus Sentences Nobel Peace Laureate to 10 Years in Prison
New York Times #5 - 12 months ago
A new wave of Palestinian prisoners join the hunger strike against detention without trial
Canary #1 - 2 hours ago
Snacks, books for prisoners spark Hong Kong security law arrests
Al Jazeera #10 - 5 weeks ago
Family of academic detained in Egypt accuse US of breaking pledge to help
Guardian #9 - 4 months ago
Leading Iranian human rights advocate freed from prison amid fear of contracting coronavirus behind bars
Washington Post #39 - 4 years ago
Myanmar junta to release 700 prisoners from Yangon's Insein jail
NBC #11 - 4 years ago
Alexey Navalny gives first interview from prison camp
Al Jazeera #11 - 2 months ago
Political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah will escalate hunger strike during Cop27
Guardian - 5 weeks ago
Russian opposition figure Ilya Yashin says he demanded not to be freed
Washington Post #10 - 8 months ago
Free Alaa Abd El-Fattah: Meet Sanaa Seif, Just Out of Prison, Calling on Egypt to Release Her Brother
Democracy Now #2 - 3 weeks ago
India’s political prisoners in bad health, lose family amid COVID
Al Jazeera #10 - 2 months ago
Alaa Abd el-Fattah has ended hunger strike, sister says
Guardian - 4 weeks ago
Hunger strikes like Navalny’s are a Russian tradition dating back to the czar’s prisons
Washington Post #34 - 4 years ago
Myanmar military frees hundreds of detained protesters, child victim buried
One America #7 - 4 months ago
US senators urge State Dept to confront Bahrain’s ‘repression’
Al Jazeera #11 - 2 months ago
Fears that Egypt may use Cop27 to whitewash human rights abuses
Guardian - 2 months ago
Vladimir Putin’s Russia Claims to Be Fighting Nazism, but It’s Persecuting Anti-Fascists
Jacobin #2 - 20 hours ago
Alexei Navalny’s death underlines the horrors of Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview.
Slate #2 - 3 weeks ago
Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul released from prison
Al Jazeera #5 - 10 months ago
Ukrainian PoWs being sent to fight their own army, Russian news claims
Guardian #8 - 5 weeks ago
Hossam Bahgat on the “Full-Scale Human Rights Crisis” in Egypt as Country Hosts COP27
Democracy Now #1 - 2 months ago
US-Chilean journalist describes torture in Ukrainian prison
RT #1 - 6 weeks ago
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