New York

Yassin Aref

Released

Yassin Aref is a Kurdish Iraqi imam who came to the United States as a UN refugee in 1999. He was the imam of...

Isidore Ashpitz

Released

Isidore Ashpitz was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union union officer detained in the prosecution ar...

Aditya Aswani

Awaiting Trial

Aditya Aswani, 29, of Brooklyn, New York, is an animal-rights activist and one of four co-defendants — alongsi...

Patsy Augustine

Released

Patsy Augustine was a Cafeteria Workers’ Union member and chairman of the Nathan’s Famous strike committee arr...

Jacob Auslander

Released

Dr. Jacob Auslander was a New York physician and an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee C...

Khalid Awan

Released

Khalid Awan, 50, Pakistani foreign national, was indicted October 25, 2006 for providing material support to K...

Muhammad Abdul Aziz

Released

Muhammad Abdul Aziz, formerly known as Norman 3X Butler, was wrongfully convicted of participating in the 1965...

Marion Bachrach

Released

Marion Bachrach was a Communist Party journalist, an aide to former congressman John Bernard, and the sister o...

Kuwasi Balagoon

Released

Kuwasi Balagoon (born Donald Weems) was a Black liberation-era activist whose politics moved through organizat...

Roger Baldwin

Released

Roger Baldwin was the founder and, for thirty years, director of the American Civil Liberties Union. During Wo...

Silvia Baraldini

Released

Silvia Baraldini is an Italian-born political activist whose organizing in the United States aligned with Blac...

Elliott James Barkley

Released

Elliott James Barkley, known as L.D., was an incarcerated organizer and spokesperson during the September 1971...

Joel Barr

In Exile

Joel Barr was an American electrical engineer associated with Julius Rosenberg’s wartime intelligence network....

Luis Barrios

Released

Father Luis Barrios is a Puerto Rican-born Episcopal priest, professor of psychology at John Jay College of Cr...

Edward K. Barsky

Released

Edward K. Barsky was a New York surgeon who had organized and led the American Medical Bureau’s volunteer hosp...

Jamie Bauer

Released

Jamie Bauer is a New York activist and direct-action trainer involved in Women's Pentagon Action and ACT UP. T...

Tarek Bazrouk

Released

Tarek Bazrouk was a young Palestinian-American student active in New York City demonstrations concerning Israe...

Isidore Begun

Released

Isidore Begun was a Russian-born American educator, teachers' union activist, and Communist Party organizer in...

Cedric Belfrage

Released

Cedric Belfrage was a British-born film critic and journalist who co-founded the radical U.S. weekly National...

Judy Bello

Released

Judy Bello is a peace activist from Rochester, New York and member of Upstate Drone Action, a coalition that o...

Don Benedict

Released

Don Benedict was one of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on Octob...

D. M. Bennett

Released

D. M. Bennett founded and published The Truth Seeker, a freethought newspaper. Anthony Comstock prosecuted him...

Lori Berenson

Released

U.S. activist arrested in Lima, Peru in 1995 and convicted by a hooded military tribunal of treason for allege...

Alan Berkman

Released

Alan Berkman was a New York City physician and longtime member of the radical health-care collectives that gre...