National Political Prisoner Coalition
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Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered federal prosecutors in Manhattan to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. It...
Leonard Peltier walked out of the United States Penitentiary at Coleman, Florida, on the morning of February 18 and boarded a plane to North Dakota. He is 80 years old. He had been...
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...
At the close of 2024, the U.S. political-prisoner roster looked the way it had looked all year — with two named exceptions, both produced by Julian Assange's June 25 Saipan plea an...
Between October 7, 2023 and the end of 2024, U.S. universities produced the largest sustained anti-protest disciplinary response of the post-1968 era. Three thousand-plus arrests,...
Through 2024, U.S. federal and state prosecutors applied a near-identical charging architecture — domestic-terrorism enhancements, coalition-as-conspiracy RICO theories, material-s...
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Justice, At Last: All Felony Charges Dropped Against Joliet Police Whistleblower Javier Esqueda
On the morning his two-day trial was set to begin, the Kendall County State's Attorney moved to dismiss all four felony counts against retired Sgt. Javier Esqueda — the 29-year Jol...
Eric King — antifascist anarchist political prisoner held in federal custody from 2014 to December 2023, with much of that time in the federal supermax ADX Florence — spent his fir...
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui — the Pakistani neuroscientist and MIT-trained cognitive-science PhD detained by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2008 and convicted in 2010 by a U.S. federal court...
Through 2024, U.S. federal and state prosecutors began applying the charging architecture built in the Stop Cop City prosecution — domestic-terrorism enhancements on non-violent en...
The National Political Prisoner Coalition today opened its online store, where supporters can buy shirts, prints, and other merchandise that carry the movement's message — and whos...
Beginning in early 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice empaneled multiple federal grand juries targeting Palestine solidarity organizers — issuing subpoenas for testimony, financi...