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.
Nayib Bukele offered to take in 252 Venezuelan political prisoners in exchange for the 252 Venezuelans deported from the United States.
Venezuelan non-governmental organization Foro Penal on Wednesday published a list of the names of the six American men who returned home last week as a result of negotiations led by President Donald Trump.
The human rights organization Prisoners Defenders revealed in a report on Tuesday that 198 political prisoners Cuba claimed to free as a gesture of solidarity with the Vatican in January were already eligible for release from prison, either because they completed their sentences or were eligible for house arrest.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, executed over 1,000 prisoners in 2024 — a shocking record in recent decades amid escalating regime desperation, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
A recently released 20-year-old political prisoner of the socialist regime in Venezuela denounced to the BBC over the weekend that he was physically and psychologically tortured during his unjust imprisonment.
Venezuela’s socialist regime is currently unjustly imprisoning and torturing dozens of children charged with “terrorism” for allegedly participating in anti-regime protests following the July 28 sham presidential election.
A joint Venezuelan journalistic investigation published on Monday across several local outlets revealed how socialist regime officials used social media to publicly hunt dissidents and brand them “enemies” and “terrorists” in the wake of the fraudulent July 28 presidential election.
A local newspaper revealed that socialist Venezuela is feeding political prisoners arrested after the nation’s sham election this summer rotten food and contaminated water, greatly endangering their health.
A group of seven Venezuelan minors will soon be placed on trial for “terrorism,” the local newspaper El Carabobeño reported on Wednesday.
Yosandri Mulet Almarales, one of more than 1,110 political prisoners confirmed in Cuba, died Monday of injuries following a suicide attempt.
The socialist dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced over the weekend that his regime has detained at least 2,000 Venezuelans as part of the ongoing crackdown on protests against Maduro’s attempts to steal the July 28 presidential election.
The head of a banned Belarusian opposition party who had been behind bars for two years was released on Monday as the authoritarian country frees a trickle of political prisoners.
Former President Donald Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon will report to prison by Monday, July 1, after the Supreme Court denied a request for him to stay out of jail pending the outcome of his appeal.
Donald Trump said he would work to free pro-life activists imprisoned by the pro-abortion Biden administration, should he be elected.
Anti-regime activists in Iran reportedly received calls from “desperate” officials urging them to mourn President Ebrahim Raisi.
The Biden administration allowed entry to U.S. territory to Arelys Casañola Quintana, an official of Cuba’s communist Castro regime now requesting asylum proceedings out of “fear of socialism,” according to a report published by Martí Noticias on Thursday.
Former Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez marked three years as a political prisoner of the current Bolivian socialist government on Wednesday, releasing a public letter in which she reaffirmed her innocence and demanded the Bolivian courts free her.
Chile said the Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal organization, was involved in the killing of Venezuelan dissident Ronald Ojeda.
Ukrainian Defense Intelligence agency leader Kyrylo Budanov claimed in remarks on Sunday that he had reason to believe Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose death the Russian government announced on February 16, died of “natural” causes, not state-sponsored homicide.
The Russian government claimed on Friday that it had launched a “procedural investigation” into the announced death of Alexei Navalny, a longtime opponent of strongman Vladimir Putin’s regime and his political prisoner since 2021.
Viktor Demchenko, a 71-year-old Ukrainian man, died in a Russian prison while on trial for espionage, activists said Sunday.
Tucker Carlson repeatedly pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin to consider freeing jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in an interview published Thursday, receiving a negative response.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny vanished from prison last week, with no explanation from the authorities and no information about where he was taken.
A woman’s rights activist in Iran who organized protest actions from within Iran’s notorious Evin prison, Narges Mohammadi, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
Former President Donald Trump has pledged to create a task force if reelected to review and potentially pardon or commute the sentences of every “political prisoner who’s been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration.”
Cubans on the island and in exile are marking the two-year anniversary on Tuesday of the historic, nationwide anti-communist protests of July 11, 2021, estimated to have drawn out nearly 200,000 people to demand an end to the violent Castro family oligarchy.
Amnesty International issued an “urgent” call for Cuba to free Yoruba leader Loreto Hernández García and his wife, Donaida Pérez Paseiro.
Officials in Venezuela’s socialist regime, a notorious human rights abuser, inspected the facilities of a brand new detention center on Wednesday named after the late South African President Nelson Mandela.
Russians living in over 100 cities around the world held demonstrations on Sunday to support jailed dissident Alexei Navalny on his birthday. It was Navalny’s third birthday since he narrowly survived an assassination attempt in Siberia, recuperated in Germany, and was thrown in prison upon arriving back in Moscow.
Former President Donald Trump reached number one on Billboard’s digital song sales chart with his debut single, “Justice For All,” featuring the J6 Prison Choir.
