Political Prisoner

Why Wouldn’t Biden Grant Clemency to Leonard Peltier?

By Gustavo A. Maranges and Bill Hackwell, published on Resumen, on February 1, 2022 Last Friday, it became known that the 77-year-old Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier was sick with COVID-19. Peltier has been in prison for over 46 years, which makes him the oldest political prisoner in the United States. This fact has brought attention to his case,[…]

DAY TWO — ‘CIA Tried to Kill Assange;’ US: ‘He’s Only Moderately Depressed & Won’t Go to Isolation

October 28, 2021 UNAC Editor Free Speech, Lawfare, Political Prisoners, US Hypocrisy, Whistleblowers

by Joe Lauria, published on Consortium News, October 28, 2021 The United States vowed that only a “moderately depressed” Julian Assange would serve time in a humane U.S. prison if he is extradited, while lawyers for Assange told the High Court that the Central Intelligence Agency plotted to assassinate him, as a two-day U.S. appeal hearing came to a close[…]

Free U.S. political prisoner Dr. Aafia Siddiqui!

October 27, 2021 UNAC Editor Pakistan, Political Prisoners, Prisoners

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, October 21, 2021 Aafia Siddiqui was a young single mother, recently separated from her husband and returned to Pakistan from the US when Pakistani Intelligence police snatched her from a cab in Karachi along with her 3 young children and abducted her. The youngest child, an infant at the time, appears to have[…]

John Pilger: ‘Defy the Thought Police’, Stand With Assange

March 8, 2019 UNAC Editor Resistance, Whistleblowers

Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Assange demonstrate in front of presidential palace regarding his Ecuadorian citizenship in Quito | Photo: REUTERS file photo by John Pilger, Published on TeleSUR English, March 3, 2019 Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is[…]

Crucifying Julian Assange

November 15, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Featured, Whistleblowers

Reino Unido (Londres), 16 de Junio del 2013. Simpatizantes de Julian Assange se reúnen en los exteriores de la embajada ecuatoriana en Londres. Foto: Xavier Granja Cedeño/Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. by Chris Hedges, published on TruthDig Website, November 12, 2018 Julian Assange’s sanctuary in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has been transformed into a little shop of horrors. He has[…]

The War on Julian Assange is a War on Press Freedom

July 22, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Political Prisoners

ínby Chris Hedges, originally published on TruthDig, July 15, 2018 The failure on the part of establishment media to defend Julian Assange, who has been trapped in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, has been denied communication with the outside world since March and appears to be facing imminent expulsion and arrest, is astonishing. The extradition of the publisher—the[…]