https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2019-05-23-eff-mp-kenny-motsamai-breaks-down-as-he-pleads-for-political-prisoners-and-military-veterans/
New EFF MP Kenny Motsamai broke down outside parliament on Thursday as he pleaded for the release of political prisoners and for better treatment of military...
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https://theweek.com/central-america/1020872/nicaragua-unexpectedly-frees-nearly-all-political-prisoners-sends-222-to
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https://iranhumanrights.org/2025/10/political-prisoners-hunger-strike-highlights-plight-of-religious-and-political-prisoners-in-iran/
Oct 24, 2025 - Nasim Simiyari Protests Iran’s Brutal Persecution of Baha’is, Demands Release of Fariba Kamalabadi October 23, 2025 — In Iran, where defendants are...
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https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/11/28/vietnam-eu-should-press-release-political-prisoners
The European Union should press the Vietnamese government to release all political prisoners and detainees; end repression of freedom of speech, association,...
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https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-activists-solitary-confinement-rights/31999493.html
Iranian activists Abbas Vahedian Shahroudi and Javad Lal Mohammadi have been placed in solitary confinement after raising objections with officials at the...
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https://freedomhouse.org/report/free-them-all/political-prisoners-watch
Political Prisoners Watch draws attention to the ways undemocratic leaders are silencing democracy’s courageous guardians by imprisoning them, and to the...
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https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-women-political-prisoners-homel/33605418.html
Nov 28, 2025 - Female ex-political prisoners from a Belarusian penal colony describe freezing cells, rotten food, psychological abuse, and forced labor. Now in exile, they...
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https://www.rferl.org/a/us-urged-to-name-names-political-prisoners-central-asia-uzbekistan-freedoms-rights/24582111.html
Civil liberties advocates and a former political prisoner from Uzbekistan have urged the United States to continue "naming names" in support of Central Asia's...
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/26/venezuela-frees-104-political-prisoners-rights-group-says
A human rights lawyer and a communications student are among those freed, Caracas-based Foro Penal says.
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https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-prisoners-freed-us-trump/33622355.html
Dec 14, 2025 - Prisoner release, which included many high-profile figures, comes after Washington indicated it was lifting sanctions on fertilizer exports against the...
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https://www.newarab.com/news/riyadh-releases-two-saudi-us-political-prisoners-campaigners
Saudi Arabia released two Saudi-Americans after nearly two years of detention, according to campaigners said.
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https://www.ibtimes.com/two-political-prisoners-venezuela-describe-their-ordeal-captivity-treated-less-dogs-3795316
Jan 14, 2026 - As reported by El País, Alberto Trentini and Mario Burlò were the Italian nationals who returned to Rome on Jan. 13 after spending more than a...
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https://aappb.org/2017/07/nelson-mandela-international-day-promoting-humane-conditions-of-imprisonment/overcrowding/
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners , also known as AAPP, is a non-profit Burmese human rights organization based in Mae Sot, Thailand.
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https://freedombridge.network/thai-political-prisoners/?letter=N
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https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/110929-stm-h-belarus-247284
Over the past few days there have been several reports about the bad conditions political prisoners in Belarus have to endure. The detainees are generally also...
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/5/us-secures-release-of-135-political-prisoners-from-nicaragua
The released group includes student and religious leaders who were arrested as part of crackdown under President Ortega.
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https://www.iranpoliticalprisoners.org/
Former political prisoners in Iran advocating for human rights and justice. We support the Iranian Resistance (NCRI), and its 10-point democratic plan for...
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https://www.christianpost.com/voices/pardoned-pro-life-political-prisoners-should-sue-biden-admin.html
We must continue the fight until every pro-life advocate is free to exercise their constitutional rights without fear of unjust prosecution.
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https://www.christianpost.com/news/number-of-political-prisoners-in-cuba-increased-5-fold-last-year.html
The number of political prisoners in the communist country of Cuba, which stood at about 134 last December, increased to at least 805 by the end of November, a...
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https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2026/01/05/free-vietnams-political-prisoners
In Vietnam, more than 160 political prisoners are currently locked up simply for exercising their basic rights. Rights bloggers and activists face police...
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https://www.ihrc.org.uk/alert-write-to-your-foreign-secretary-regarding-tunisian-political-prisoners/
Nov 12, 2025 - With the news that Rached Ghannouchi has gone on hunger strike alongside two of his fellow incarcerated opposition figures, we must stand with him and other
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https://iranhumanrights.org/2025/08/bloody-saturday-in-ghezel-hesar-testimony-from-political-prisoners-expose-brutal-assault-and-executions-by-iranian-authorities/
Aug 12, 2025 - Firsthand letter reveals coordinated attack, beatings, and execution of two political prisoners: ‘We’ll kill every last one of you sons of whores!’...
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https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/03/23/bhutans-long-serving-political-prisoners-should-be-released
“The physical torture was merciless,” said one man, “so we had no option but to present ourselves to the court based on [the security forces’] demands...
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https://scroll.in/article/1078720/
At least 32 political prisoners – mostly Nepali-speaking Bhutanese – who are languishing in his nation’s jails.
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https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-female-political-prisoners-human-rights/33598488.html
Nov 28, 2025 - RFE/RL spoke to women who had been imprisoned at the Homyel penal colony on politically motivated charges. Now free and living in exile, they shared stories of...
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https://www.africanews.com/2026/01/09/venezuela-government-starts-freeing-political-prisoners/
Venezuela's government has started freeing detainees considered by rights groups as political prisoners, in what officials have referred to as a goodwill...
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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/30/more-russian-political-prisoners-moved-fueling-speculation-of-imminent-swap-a85876
Two more Russian political prisoners have been moved to unknown locations, lawyers and relatives said Tuesday, coming days after the transfer of four...
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https://www.en-hrana.org/ahvaz-death-sentences-for-three-political-prisoners-upheld-by-the-supreme-court/
Nov 17, 2025 - HRANA – The death sentences of Masoud Jamaei, Alireza Mardasi, and Farshad Etemadifar, political prisoners held in Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz, have been upheld...
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https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/111013-mrhh-myanmar-247432
The Myanmar Government has decreed the release of more than 6000 prisoners, including at least 300 political prisoners, in the course of an amnesty. Federal...
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