Political Prisoners

The demand for freedom of political prisoners must be consistently made for their sakes and for all at risk of joining them in the future. Russell “Maroon” Shoatz has been granted compassionate release after 50 years […]

Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the murder of Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, brother of former president John F. Kennedy, just after midnight, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. On […]

Including a special interview with Tom Soto, Prisoners Solidarity Committee observer.  On Sept. 9, 1971, approximately 1,500 prisoners in Cell Block D seized the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, after submitting a 27-point […]

“If I leave here alive, I’ll leave nothing behind. They’ll never count me among the broken men, but I can’t say that I’m normal either. I’ve been hungry too long, I’ve gone angry too often, […]

Pentagon generals and killer cops can’t tolerate truth-tellers. That’s the reason Ramsey Orta was locked up for four years.  Orta filmed his friend Eric Garner being choked to death by Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Staten […]

On May 26, the seriously ill political prisoner Ali Osman Köse was taken to the Thracian University Hospital in Edirne, near the border with Bulgaria and Greece. This came after months of protest actions in […]

May 28 — The name Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald is perhaps not widely known except for his supporters. In his wild youth decades ago, he was a teenage member of the LA chapter of the Black […]