Venezuela’s socialist regime on Thursday admitted that one of its political prisoners, Víctor Hugo Quero Navas, has been dead since July 2025 — a revelation that comes after a 16-month desperate search by his 82-year-old mother.
The Cuban communist Castro regime this week published a strange, presumptively staged photo of 16-year-old political prisoner Jonathan David Muir Burgos playing a piano in what has been denounced as an attempt to dismiss concerns over the minor’s state and health.
A research study published by the human rights organization Prisoners Defenders on Monday estimated — based on documented evidence of meals, eyewitness testimony, and scientific estimates — that the Cuban Communist Party is feeding its male prisoners between 250 to 353 calories.
The Communist Party of Cuba announced a mass pardon of over 2,000 prisoners on Thursday, allegedly to mark the Christian holiday of Holy Week, but human rights groups have denounced the regime for neither freeing a single political prisoner nor clarifying who it is freeing.
Cuban dissidents and human rights activists reacted with shock and disgust this weekend at the arrival of the “Nuestra America” convoy, a cohort of international celebrity leftists visiting the island to show solidarity with the 67-year-old communist regime.
Venezuelan courts are demanding U.S.-dollar cash payments to sign off documents for the release of political prisoners under the socialist regime’s new “Amnesty” law, relatives of the prisoners denounced on Tuesday.
During his 2026 State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump discussed the incredible raid that brought narco-terrorist dictator Hugo Chavez to justice — and he hosted a surprise reunion between a political prisoner of the Chavez regime and his niece.
“Acting president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday evening signed an “amnesty law” criticized by local human rights organizations over its limited reach for all of the socialist regime’s remaining political prisoners.
Venezuela’s socialist strongman Diosdado Cabello celebrated the abduction and rearrest of opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa.
Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa was rearrested 12 hours after being released from prison.
Venezuela on Tuesday marked the first month since the United States’s unprecedented January 3 law enforcement operation in Caracas that resulted in the arrest of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
Strongman Diosdado Cabello branded the Venezuelan Catholic Church “fascists in cassocks” for not condemning the capture of Nicolás Maduro.
Venezuelan ex-political prisoner Víctor Borjas surprised his two daughters – whom he had not seen in over a year – by wearing a teddy bear costume in a heartfelt Sunday reunion after his release from unjust imprisonment.
The Beijing-controlled puppet government in Hong Kong began a trial under China’s tyrannical “national security law” on Thursday for the leaders of a group that organized candlelight vigils in memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
Secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS) Albert Ramdin on Wednesday called for Venezuela’s socialist regime to release all of its remaining political prisoners.
The Venezuelan non-government organization Foro Penal on Monday announced that, based on information confirmed by the group, Venezuela’s socialist regime still holds 777 political prisoners as of Monday night.
Italian citizens Alberto Trentini and Mario Burlò recounted their harrowing experiences after spending over a year as political prisoners of the Venezuelan socialist regime.
A group of at least 15 Venezuelan teenagers was slapped with dubious “treason” charges for allegedly celebrating the downfall of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the outlet Runrunes reported.
Venezuela’s socialist regime released a new group of at least 24 political prisoners during the early morning hours of Monday, the non-government organization Foro Penal announced.
Venezuela’s socialist regime released Thursday night a minimal number of the more than 800 political prisoners it presently maintains.
Venezuelan former political prisoners of the regime of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and families of slain protesters recounted their harrowing experiences following Maduro’s arrest in a U.S. operation.
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, a body dedicated to unjust imprisonment cases, recently found that 49 Cuban citizens arrested during the historic July 11, 2021, anti-communist protests were detained arbitrarily, the human rights organization Prisoners Defenders revealed Tuesday.
A South Korean research institute published the first large-scale, detailed report this month on North Korea’s horrifying political prisoner camps in a decade, concluding that as many as 66,000 people are being enslaved, tortured, and starved in camps by the communist regime.
Exiled Cuban anti-communist dissident José Daniel Ferrer described the communist Castro regime’s inhumane torture.
José Daniel Ferrer — the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), the nation’s largest dissident organization — announced that he has agreed to go into forced exile after enduring months of unbearable torture.
Conservative former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro was diagnosed with skin cancer, his medical team revealed on Wednesday.
Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Monday gave Brazil’s federal police a 24-hour deadline to explain an alleged “delay” in conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro’s return to his house arrest after he underwent a surgical procedure on Sunday, local outlets reported.
The far-left New York Times on Sunday published an opinion piece by Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva criticizing President Donald Trump’s tariff on Brazil and other actions in response to the political persecution of Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison on dubious “crimes against democracy” charges.
Chargé d’affaires ad interim Mike Hammer, the United States’ top diplomat in Havana, visited the Cuban city of Matanzas this week and called for the liberation of unjustly detained Cuban artists while state officials closely followed and recorded him.
Bolivia’s top court, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ), instructed the corresponding lower courts over the weekend to review the orders that led to the unjust detention of former Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez, conservative governor Luis Fernando Camacho, and activist Marco Antonio Pumari.
Lucy Connolly, a British housewife who was handed a hefty prison sentence for sending a Tweet, is in talks with the Trump administration and is taking legal advice to sue over the circumstances of her incarceration, she said after being released from prison.
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would do everything in his power to save Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
The U.S. State Department published its annual global human rights reports on Tuesday, featuring a profile on the Chinese Communist Party that accused that government of a host of atrocities including genocide, slavery, worker abuse, forced abortions, and various forms of torture against dissidents.
Iranian state media claimed on Tuesday that 27 inmates from the infamous Evin prison in northern Tehran are still at large.
Cuba’s figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel thanked Chinese Prosecutor General Ying Yong for China’s “training” of Cuban prosecutors during Ying’s weekend visit to the island nation.
Belarus has freed dissident Siarhei Tsikhanouski following a rare visit by U.S. President Donald Trump´s envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg.
The socialist regime governing Venezuela freed U.S. Air Force veteran Joseph St. Clair on Tuesday after spending six months unjustly detained as a political prisoner under dictator Nicolás Maduro.
The regime of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela is imprisoning at least 31 unjustly detained foreign nationals under conditions of forced disappearance, the Argentine outlet Infobae reported on Sunday.
Cuba on Tuesday once again arrested José Daniel Ferrer, leader of the largest dissident organization in the country, the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), three months after his release.
President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele repeated his offer to Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday to send 252 Venezuelans deported from the U.S. back to Venezuela in exchange for Maduro releasing 252 of his political prisoners.
