#political-prisoner — Public Fediverse posts

Bridging The Rift Through Kumeyaay Territory + 2026 June 11th Call

http://web.brid.gy/r/https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/06/07/bridging-the-rift-through-kumeyaay-territory-tijuana-and-san-diego/

Bridging The Rift Through Kumeyaay Territory + 2026 June 11th Call

http://web.brid.gy/r/https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/06/07/bridging-the-rift-through-kumeyaay-territory-tijuana-and-san-diego/

Message from Political Prisoner Xinachtli

https://www.abcf.net/blog/message-from-political-prisoner-xinachtli/

#FreeXinachtli #PoliticalPrisoner #USA #Texas #Chicano

Message from Political Prisoner Xinachtli

https://www.abcf.net/blog/message-from-political-prisoner-xinachtli/

#FreeXinachtli #PoliticalPrisoner #USA #Texas #Chicano

2/2 In Cyrillic script #Navalny is written Навальный, that's why the bench has letters that remind H from Latin alphabet.

#Navalnyi #mistreatment #PoliticalPrisoner #assasination #poisoning #murder #memorial #MemorialBench #Russia #Venäjä #opposition #Putin #dictatorship #dictator #criminal #warcriminal

2/2 In Cyrillic script #Navalny is written Навальный, that's why the bench has letters that remind H from Latin alphabet.

#Navalnyi #mistreatment #PoliticalPrisoner #assasination #poisoning #murder #memorial #MemorialBench #Russia #Venäjä #opposition #Putin #dictatorship #dictator #criminal #warcriminal

1/2 On Thursday it was #AlexeiNavalny's 50th birthday.

In Helsinki, #Finland a memorial bench was revealed to honor him.

And it was the officials of #Helsinki who suggested that the bench should be placed so, that it can be seen from the Russian Embassy <3!

https://yle.fi/a/74-20230007

#Navalny #Navalnyi #mistreatment #PoliticalPrisoner #assasination #poisoning #murder #memorial #MemorialBench #Russia #Venäjä #opposition #Putin #dictatorship #dictator #criminal #warcriminal

1/2 On Thursday it was #AlexeiNavalny's 50th birthday.

In Helsinki, #Finland a memorial bench was revealed to honor him.

And it was the officials of #Helsinki who suggested that the bench should be placed so, that it can be seen from the Russian Embassy <3!

https://yle.fi/a/74-20230007

#Navalny #Navalnyi #mistreatment #PoliticalPrisoner #assasination #poisoning #murder #memorial #MemorialBench #Russia #Venäjä #opposition #Putin #dictatorship #dictator #criminal #warcriminal

Суд огласил новый приговор против журналистки Марии Пономаренко

Рубцовский городской суд Алтайского края назначил журналистке Марии Пономаренко один год и десять месяцев лишения свободы по делу о «дезорганизации деятельности колонии» (ч. 2 ст. 321 УК РФ). С учётом неотбытой части заключения общее наказание составило два года и три месяца колонии общего режима, вердикт огласил судья Игорь Титаренко #politicalprisoner

June 11th Statement From Marius Mason

I am feeling some bittersweet feelings, having left prison after some 17 years. I met so many people, from so many communities and families, who found themselves incarcerated for a myriad of reasons. As we move into this time of contention, where there will be conflict between the state and the communities we know – there may be more of the people we love sharing that hidden world behind bars and kept apart. To recognize and remember them is important and it keeps those ties we have to them strong. Please help me this June 11th, to send some love, some hope and a promise to remember to all of our people who are living behind bars.

I am including a poem I wrote for my Yale poetry class in prison. At Danbury, we had a tradition of hugging a certain tree in the parking lot as we got ready to leave one of the three prisons there, the camp, the FSL or the FCI. I was able to hug this sycamore tree, and to tie a new crocheted wrap that a lot of people at the FSL had contributed, so many stitches, so many colors, so many lives maintaining hope for freedom and the embrace of our family and friends.

The Freedom Tree

It’s the sycamore tree that’s in the parking lot,

From two day’s warmth, has put out leaves.

The bleached bark, peeling and stark, is shot

Against the sky, arms lifted in a silent plea,

The “Freedom Tree”.

Willing time to move forward, we see it expand,

The days are in those fingertips.

Buds break to burgeon into hands

That sweep the sky, wide, now that wind no longer keens

And grass grows green.

There is a wild crocheted belt that encircles it,

Proof that one of us made it out,

And left behind a sign that’s spun

From everything we dreamed, while we longed to be

Touching this tree.

Bob Marley also sang of a sycamore tree that was part of his songs about freedom and history. I hope that you will participate in this event, helping me mark a day to remember all the friends I left behind, and all of the people we are missing from our movement, and our communities. Anything will do, as long as it is braided or crocheted or knitted to show how we are all part of a whole together, and stronger together than any one strand alone. There is no particular color combination, as many as you have to weave together. We are all different, but all of us belong together and free. Please help me mark this very first Freedom Tree event on June 11th.

Thank you so much for your act of solidarity.

Love and freedom, Marius Mason

source: ABCF

“In Order to Break Free, One Must Be Acutely Aware of Being a Slave” — Malik Muhammad

This essay from Malik was written at the end of March 2026 while in custody at Eastern Oregon Correctional, shortly before they were transferred to South Carolina.

There’s a pattern here: for the last 3 years Ramadan, I’m targeted. I’m snatched from mainline and taken to the hole under “Investigation”. I’m hit with some bogus “Unauthorized Organization” and I’m locked away in the hole for the rest of the year. It’s often that those targeted in prison, those considered activists or revolutionaries are sent to the hole, not for something they’ve done, but for what the administration thinks we MIGHT do. For them, it’s better to be preemptive. Not unlike the U.S. and Israel’s “preemptive” strikes on Iran. It’s just a cover for doing what they want anyways.

For 3 years, I’ve been dealing with this, now I’m here again, spend my Ramadan in the hole again due to nothing more than white fragility. The white male ego. Hurt at the notion that not only do I not like or respect the fascist state, but there’s a whole wide network of folks who also hold hatred for the state and do no think what they do is a “public good”, but rather, a genocide. Slavery by another name.

So I sit in the hole for “Disrespect” in talking to my partner on the phone about my frustrations with C.O.’s [ed.: Correctional Officers]. I was given 14 days – that ended on March 16. They refuse to return me, instead placing me on “STM hold” indefinitely [ed.: Security Threat Management]. No cause. But then, the state doesn’t need a reason to repress us – they need reasons NOT to.

The real reason for all this? Enlightening people, giving people knowledge. I was buying books for people, studying books like “Blood In My Eye”, Settlers, “Open Veins Of Latin America”, studying black anarchist thought from Lucy Parsons to William C. Anderson, Martin Sostre to Lorenzo Irvin and more. That was my true crime. With the book ban nationwide, there’s a clampdown on literature. Oregon just relies heavily on division, racism, politics and drugs to keep people inundated. So when they see a multiracial group of guys studying together, discussing global politics, the intersectionality of oppression, deconstructing they systems that work to create our material conditions, studying the history of movements and people in resistance and defiance together – that disturbed them. Give oppressed people the books with which to liberate themselves – EDUCATION – they lose their fucking minds. The truth of the matter is: you cannot have a mind that knows itself. In order to break free, one must be acutely aware of being a slave.

So the true reason I sit in segregation again is the same as always – fear. Fear of blacks, fear of potential unknowns, those they cannot control. They ask that I be “friendly” and talk with staff, they ask me to apologize for my conversation and not “see staff as enemies”. I will not. I will not censor myself. I will not capitulate. I’ll leave prison saying “Fuck 12” as I did coming in. Pigs are swine, not friends. ACAB includes CO’s too. No matter the hole you put me in, I will not break my principles. You cannot suppress the people forever. That spark of knowledge will grow and spread, with me in the hole or not.

Love, Rage & Solidarity,

~ Malik

Anarchist Political Prisoner Marius Mason Released

Marius got out this morning!!!!

Everything helps.

source: Support Marius Mason

RE: https://mastodon.social/@azmastodon/116520842221595515

#politicalprisoner от мамы Азата Мифтахова:
Любимые Мои, Дорогие. Почти ровно семь лет вы со мной и следите за моими историями и новостями про моего сына Азата Мифтахова.
Почти год я твердила и молилась про себя, чтоб Азата не отправили слишком далеко от нас, родителей, но нет, нас не услышали. Азата упекли аж почти за три тысячи километров. Неделю плакала, потом появилась пустота, приговаривая себе, что лишь бы на Азаа не было никакого давления, пусть хоть вдали, выдержим, вытерпим...
#пытки

RE: https://zhub.link/@meduza/116520816589530475

#пытки #politicalprisoner

‘The doorbell went at 5am. Six masked men were outside’: Belarus Free Theatre bring totalitarian terror to the Venice Biennale

They’ve been imprisoned, tortured and spied upon. Now dissidents from Europe’s last dictatorship are bringing the sights, sounds, smells and even tastes of brutal repression to the world’s biggest festival of art

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/28/belarus-free-theatre-venice-biennale

#ProtestArt #resistance #VeniceBiennale #ArtMatters #Art #PoliticalPrisoner #PerformanceArt #PoliticalTheatre

‘The doorbell went at 5am. Six masked men were outside’: Belarus Free Theatre bring totalitarian terror to the Venice Biennale

They’ve been imprisoned, tortured and spied upon. Now dissidents from Europe’s last dictatorship are bringing the sights, sounds, smells and even tastes of brutal repression to the world’s biggest festival of art

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/28/belarus-free-theatre-venice-biennale

#ProtestArt #resistance #VeniceBiennale #ArtMatters #Art #PoliticalPrisoner #PerformanceArt #PoliticalTheatre

#russia умер 64-летний политзаключённый Олег Тырышкин, бывший шахтер, экс-лидер профсоюза, осужденный по статье об «оправдании терроризма», четвертый политзаключенный с начала весны

по данным правозащитников, он скончался около месяца назад, предположительно из-за проблем с сердцем. Точное место смерти не установлено.
#politicalprisoner

Lines in the Sand: Writings on the Gaza Solidarity Encampment & Campus Flood at U.C. Berkeley from an Anarchist Prisoner of War by Casey Goonan

To commemorate Palestinian Prisoners’ Day—April 17, 2026—we are sharing Lines in the Sand: Writings on the Gaza Solidarity Encampment & Campus Flood at U.C. Berkeley from an Anarchist Pris­oner of War, a collection of writing Casey Goo­nan produced while imprisoned at Santa Rita Jail awaiting trial for actions carried out in solidarity with the Palestinian people enduring and resist­ing genocide in Gaza.

As a comrade in many movements—from street uprisings for Black liberation, mass prisoner struggles, and anti-imperialist solidarity in the belly of the beast—Casey’s works (whether in their own name as a guerrilla intellectual or anonymously in uncountable movement contri­butions) have never been bound by barbed-wire barriers or ephemeral abstractions, always seeking to help us to determine what’s possible here and now, especially through their immense efforts in the zine-to-prisoner distro True Leap Press.

Casey’s intellectual curiosity is limitless, and, while what’s collected here is far from the en­tirety of what Casey wrote while at Santa Rita, these are the interventions that Casey drafted, edited, edited again, and sent outside to us in a stack of manila envelopes for us to share widely with those who need them. Writing is a task that never ceases for Casey—they are always reading, reflecting, and sitting down with a pen in hand to poetically untangle not just their context of cap­tivity but the wider stakes of global anti-imperi­alist struggle.

Casey, in their words and in their action, has al­ways sought to intervene directly into the only fight worth intervening in—the struggle for a better world, without walls or cages. Their writ­ings collected here—tactical and strategic assess­ments of possibilities for action, precise analysis of the (material and discursive) political economy of U.S./Zionist settler-colonialism, imperialism, and genocide, as well as personal reflections on the stakes of taking the leap into action—are an invitation for each of us to continue to rigorously interrogate our own sites and scenes of struggle, to hold open concealed possibilities, to break down the walls that divide us from the “we” we could become, and to take the true leap into ac­tion.

This book is the result of inside/outside collabo­ration from a few comrades to the end, lovingly transcribed from hand-written letters, and pre­sented to you as a revolutionary gift and inter­vention in the struggle for Palestinian liberation and abolition of the colonial-imperialist prison world. Casey’s wish to release their writing to the world on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is also a de­sire to shrink the fabricated distances between our global struggles, which we share with Casey as a serious project for any emancipatory struggle, especially since imprisonment as an institution spreads across the prison world, the prison sky.

It is Casey’s hope that you will read, print, and share this book, reflect on it with those with whom you’re in struggle, and ultimately enter into a broader conversation about what transpired across university campuses in 2024 in solidarity with Gaza as well as what is possible / necessary to do here and now. As a free-to-download, anti-copyright body of work, this collection is an invi­tation to expand our material and collective sup­port for Casey and other comrades behind bars and to also shrink the fabricated distances be­tween “inside” and “outside”—our comrades in­side have much to contribute. Each chapter of this book is also available as a zine for ease of reading and distribution.

For more information on how to write to Casey or to put money on their books, visit: freecaseynow.noblogs.org.

Free Palestine!
Free Casey!
Free Them All!

Love & Rage

To check all the literature and check the link here: WITH WHATEVER WEAPONS

Физику Дмитрию Богмуту утвердили приговор в семь лет колонии

51-летний сотрудник Курчатовского института Дмитрий Богмут, участвовал в заседании по видеосвязи.

Апелляция. Физик заявил о своей невиновности и просил вынести оправдательное решение. Ранее суд в Гатчине назначил Богмуту семь лет колонии общего режима по статье о «военных фейках» (ст. 207.3 УК РФ).
#politicalprisoner #russia

Физику Дмитрию Богмуту утвердили приговор в семь лет колонии

51-летний сотрудник Курчатовского института Дмитрий Богмут, участвовал в заседании по видеосвязи.

Апелляция. Физик заявил о своей невиновности и просил вынести оправдательное решение. Ранее суд в Гатчине назначил Богмуту семь лет колонии общего режима по статье о «военных фейках» (ст. 207.3 УК РФ).
#politicalprisoner #russia

This week, we’re sharing two segments: an interview with the recently released anarchist organizer and writer #HybachiLeMar, plus a member of the #Xinachtli Freedom Campaign speaks on the incarcerated elder’s condition in Texas prison

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/04/19/hybachi-lemar-shares-some-thoughts-updates-on-xinachtli/

#prison #politicalprisoner

This week, we’re sharing two segments: an interview with the recently released anarchist organizer and writer #HybachiLeMar, plus a member of the #Xinachtli Freedom Campaign speaks on the incarcerated elder’s condition in Texas prison

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/04/19/hybachi-lemar-shares-some-thoughts-updates-on-xinachtli/

#prison #politicalprisoner

Hybachi LeMar Shares Some Thoughts + Updates On Xinachtli

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/04/19/hybachi-lemar-shares-some-thoughts-updates-on-xinachtli/

«Позвонил его отец и сообщил. При каких обстоятельствах скончался ему не сообщили сказали, чтобы приезжал в понедельник за информацией. У него были натянутые отношение с администрацией ИК-2, также, по сообщению отца, и в камере с некоторыми сокамерниками были небольшие недопонимания. Поэтому пока трудно сказать что послужило причиной смерти»
17/04
#politicalprisoner #russia

Xinachtli Freedom Campaign April Update

"Earlier this month, Xinachtli was transferred from Carole Young Unit to Estelle Unit in Huntsville, Texas.

His condition has worsened since the move. He can no longer walk on his own and has no way to move himself around. He has not received any of his books, letters, or other personal property that should have been transferred with him. He continues to be denied the regular physical therapy, B12 shots, and diet prescribed by UTMB doctors."

https://www.abcf.net/blog/xinachtli-freedom-campaign-april-update/

#FreeXinachtli #PoliticalPrisoner #Solidarity

Xinachtli Freedom Campaign April Update

"Earlier this month, Xinachtli was transferred from Carole Young Unit to Estelle Unit in Huntsville, Texas.

His condition has worsened since the move. He can no longer walk on his own and has no way to move himself around. He has not received any of his books, letters, or other personal property that should have been transferred with him. He continues to be denied the regular physical therapy, B12 shots, and diet prescribed by UTMB doctors."

https://www.abcf.net/blog/xinachtli-freedom-campaign-april-update/

#FreeXinachtli #PoliticalPrisoner #Solidarity

Сегодня (16/04) состоится очередное заседание суда по мере пресечения политпреследуемой активистки Елены Пантелеевой по адресу: г. #Хабаровск, Тихоокеанская, 155 - в 14:40,
заседание открытое.
Напомним, что Елена была задержана вместе с супругом Леонидом Пантелеевым 25 ноября 2025 г., предположительно за пост в интернете в связи с проблемой защиты амурских тигров (*надо фактчекнуть, в источниках есть ультраправые блоги)
#politicalprisoner #ecology #russia

At 15, He Became One of #Russia’s Youngest Political Prisoners. He Now Faces New Charges. - The Moscow Times
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights group Memorial has designated Turbin a #politicalprisoner, as part of what activists say is a growing trend of minors being targeted in politically motivated cases since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

More than 100 teenagers are currently facing prosecution in such cases, Memorial told The Moscow Times.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/15/at-15-he-became-one-of-russias-youngest-political-prisoners-hes-now-facing-new-charges-a92495

At 15, He Became One of #Russia’s Youngest Political Prisoners. He Now Faces New Charges. - The Moscow Times
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights group Memorial has designated Turbin a #politicalprisoner, as part of what activists say is a growing trend of minors being targeted in politically motivated cases since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

More than 100 teenagers are currently facing prosecution in such cases, Memorial told The Moscow Times.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/15/at-15-he-became-one-of-russias-youngest-political-prisoners-hes-now-facing-new-charges-a92495

Жителя Анапы, критиковавшего войну, похитили сотрудники ФСБ.
ФСБ похитили 45-летнего жителя Анапы Максима Овчинникова после двух «карусельных» арестов.
Родные уже 44 дня не знают, где он находится.
#politicalprisoner #anapa

#Belarus политзаключенный Николай Статкевич рассказал о не соответствии юридического статуса фактическому освобождению
#politicalprisoner

#bahrain #usa #israel #iran : #politicalprisoner / #torture / #murder / #freedomofspeech

„Since the start of the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran, #HumanRightsWatch and #BIRD have documented Bahraini authorities’ increased #repression of free speech, including by detaining dozens of people for participating in peaceful protests, for protesting against the US and Israeli attacks in Iran, or for posting footage of the attacks on the social media.“

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/12/bahrain-sayed-mohamed-almosawi-dies-in-custody

#bahrain #usa #israel #iran : #politicalprisoner / #torture / #murder / #freedomofspeech

„Since the start of the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran, #HumanRightsWatch and #BIRD have documented Bahraini authorities’ increased #repression of free speech, including by detaining dozens of people for participating in peaceful protests, for protesting against the US and Israeli attacks in Iran, or for posting footage of the attacks on the social media.“

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/12/bahrain-sayed-mohamed-almosawi-dies-in-custody

Marius Mason to be Released to Halfway House, May 4th!

Political prisoner Marius Mason — known for his art, environmentalism, anarchism, and trans advocacy, among other things — is scheduled to be released from prison in May 2026 to a halfway house in Detroit.

At this time we don’t know what restrictions will be in place, nor for how long. We recognize the many people who have advocated, supported, and worked toward this outcome, and we hope this transition is met with dignity, safety, and care for everyone involved.

We will share more details as they become available. In the meantime please consider donating what you can to Marius’s support fund at:

supportmariusmason.org/support

Contact [email protected] if you have any specific questions.

With deepest gratitude,
The Support Marius Mason crew

Oregon DOC Appears to Have Disappeared Portland Political Prisoner Malik Muhammad

The Oregon Department of Corrections appears to have effectively disappeared Malik Muhammad, a Black Palestinian anarchist and antifascist prisoner serving one of the longest sentences handed to a protester after the 2020 George Floyd uprising.

According to court documents, Muhammad threw a Molotov cocktail at police in Oregon in 2020. In 2022, they pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and received a concurrent 10-year federal and state sentence in Oregon State Prison.

On Monday, March 30, 2026, members of Muhammad’s support team noticed something alarming: their profile had vanished from the prison messaging system GettingOut. Around the same time, their name no longer appeared in Oregon’s inmate search database. This disappearance happened in the wake of a call-in campaign to once again get Muhammad out of solitary confinement.

Since then, family and supporters have been scrambling for answers, calling Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution (EOCI) and multiple Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) offices. They’ve gotten almost nothing in return.

WWFU has also made dozens of calls across the Oregon prison system in an attempt to locate them and have been unsuccessful in getting any of our questions answered.

Calls to Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP), including the Special Management Housing (SMH) unit where Muhammad had previously been held in solitary confinement, suggested they may have been at court, but provided no confirmation.

One official in the Office of Population Management confirmed only that Muhammad had been moved to a “confidential location,” a designation repeatedly invoked while officials declined to provide any verifiable information about their whereabouts.

Staff at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution (EOCI) confirmed that Muhammad is no longer housed there. The Oregon Department of Corrections’ Public Information Officer did not provide answers, instead directing further inquiries elsewhere.

What followed was a bureaucratic loop: multiple phone numbers, referrals, and repeated contact attempts, none of which produced verifiable information about Muhammad’s location or condition.

Muhammad’s mother was given the same explanation. When she pressed for clarification, she was told that placement in a “confidential location” is determined on a case-by-case basis and could be due to medical, mental health, safety, operational, or court-related reasons, according to the Office of Population Management. No further details were provided.

These explanations, or lack-thereof, raised more questions than they answer.

People in state custody do not simply disappear from public records. Prison transfers generate paper trails. Locations are logged. Systems update. None of that appears to have happened here, or, at the very least, none of it is being disclosed.

As of publication, supporters say they have no idea where Muhammad is. They have not spoken to them since they were placed in solitary confinement prior to their disappearance. No federal agency, including the Federal Bureau of Prisons, has acknowledged taking custody.

Muhammad is, for all practical purposes, gone.

A Record of Isolation and Torture

Muhammad’s disappearance comes after years of extreme isolation.

Their support committee documented on Muhammad’s blog that  they had spent more than 250 days in solitary confinement in 2024 alone, cut off from any meaningful human contact and communication.

Solitary confinement on that scale is not just punitive, it is widely recognized as torture.

The United Nations’s “Mandela Rules” state that more than 15 days in isolation constitutes cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and can amount to torture. Decades of research have shown that prolonged isolation can cause severe psychological damage, including hallucinations, paranoia, cognitive decline, and suicidal ideation.

Muhammad has already endured conditions that meet that threshold many times over.

Now, supporters say, even the minimal visibility that remained has been stripped away.

“This is entirely different,” members of Muhammad’s support network say. “We are scared. We know nothing about Malik’s condition, location, or why ODOC has taken the extraordinary step of blocking all access and information.”

From Prosecution to Disappearance

Following Muhammad’s sentencing, prosecuted by Nathan Vasquez, their supporters exclaimed the severity of the charges and sentence already reflected a broader political crackdown on antifascist and anti-police protesters, believing that sentence was never just about the alleged conduct, but was about making an example.

An antifascist and anarchist protester. A moment of mass uprising. A state eager to reassert control.

Now, they argue, that same logic has escalated beyond prosecution and punishment into something even more extreme: disappearance.

Political Repression by Design

The use of secrecy inside prison systems is not new. “Confidential” placements and communication blackouts are often justified under the language of security.

But advocates say that when the state refuses to disclose even the most basic information, such as where a prisoner is being held, whether they are safe, whether they are alive, it crosses a line from control into outright repression.

Without transparency, there is no accountability. Without contact, there is no oversight.

And without public pressure, there is nothing to stop it from happening again.

Supporters are now calling for urgent action. They are urging people to contact the Oregon Department of Corrections, elected officials and to amplify prior reporting on Muhammad’s treatment.

Because what is happening is no longer ambiguous.

A prisoner has been removed from public record.
Their location is being withheld.
Contact has been cut off.
And the state is refusing to explain why.

Under international human rights standards, this pattern has a name: enforced disappearance. The detention of a person followed by a refusal to disclose their fate or whereabouts. It is a practice historically associated with authoritarian regimes and political repression.

The Oregon Department of Corrections may use bureaucratic language such as “confidential placement,” “operational reasons,” but the effect is the same: a human being has been made to vanish behind the walls of the state.

This is not a clerical error. It is not a routine transfer. It is an escalation.

And if it is allowed to stand, it sets a precedent: that the state can make political prisoners disappear, and face no consequences for it.

This is bigger than one case. When the state can make a prisoner vanish and refuse to account for it, it exposes a system built not on justice, but on control and impunity. Naming it matters. Resisting it matters more. Because what is happening here is not an anomaly, it is an escalation.

Who to call:

ODOC– (503)945-9090

OSP General Line– (503)378-2453

OSP SMH– (503)378-2597

Brynne Xin at the Office of Population Management–

(503)871-5496

EOCI– (541)276-0700

From We Will Free Us, by Alissa Azar

Read the original article here: https://www.wewillfreeus.org/oregon-doc-appears-to-have-disappeared-portland-protester-malik-muhammad/

Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, Nasrin Sotudeh was taken from her house arrest by IRI security forces to an unknown location.
Her husband is still in prison for exposing HR abuse of the regime and breaking the gag order forbidding him to talk to media about Mrs Sotudeh.
مهراوه دختر خانم ستوده گفت: مادر او زمانی که در خانه تنها بوده بازداشت شده. هیچ اطلاعی از محل نگهداری وی وجود ندارد. رضا خندان همسر خانم ستوده هم از آذر ۱۴۰۳ در زندان است.

#iran #NasrinSotudeh #HumanRights #politics #iri #politicalprisoner

Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, Nasrin Sotudeh was taken from her house arrest by IRI security forces to an unknown location.
Her husband is still in prison for exposing HR abuse of the regime and breaking the gag order forbidding him to talk to media about Mrs Sotudeh.
مهراوه دختر خانم ستوده گفت: مادر او زمانی که در خانه تنها بوده بازداشت شده. هیچ اطلاعی از محل نگهداری وی وجود ندارد. رضا خندان همسر خانم ستوده هم از آذر ۱۴۰۳ در زندان است.

#iran #NasrinSotudeh #HumanRights #politics #iri #politicalprisoner

Out Here For Them: Updates As Prairieland Federal Trial Ends

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/03/29/out-here-for-them-updates-as-prairieland-federal-trial-ends/

#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:

"موقوفیت خاطره‌لای - Mevkufiyet hatıraları" by Yusuf Akçura

[Orenburg: Kerimof, Hüseyinof ve Şürekası Matbaası, 1907]

http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/121282

#russia #history #politicalprisoner

Oso Blanco Birthday Statement

https://www.abcf.net/blog/oso-blanco-birthday-statement/

#FreeOsoBlanco #PoliticalPrisoner

Freed Venezuelan peasant leader Azuaje recounts prison abuse

Venezuelan peasant leader and engineer Carlos Alberto Azuaje described systematic torture with baseball bats inside Venezuelan prisons after his release in January following more than a year of detention. #venezuela #politicalprisoner #freed #peasantleader #prisonabuse #News #Reuters #Newsfeed 👉 Subscribe: Keep up with the latest news from around the world: Follow Reuters on Facebook: Follow Reuters on…

https://fllics.com/en/video/freed-venezuelan-peasant-leader-azuaje-recounts-prison-abuse/

Is the State of Texas Trying to Kill This Chicano Activist?

After 23 years in solitary confinement, Alvaro “Xinachtli” Hernandez’s health is failing him. So is the system.

https://newrepublic.com/article/206210/texas-prison-chicano-activist-xinachtli

#FreeXinachtli #Prison #PoliticalPrisoner #Texas #Chicano

Don Lemon arrested by federal agents over Minnesota church protest

https://ew.com/don-lemon-arrested-federal-agents-minnesota-church-protest-11895931

#DonLemon #news #MAGA #ice #journalism #independentjournalist #uspol #protest #Minneapolis #politicalprisoner #trump #vsn #resist #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia

Umer Khalid, 22 years old, the last Palestine Action linked prisoner on hunger strike, has ended his protest after 17 days and resumed drinking fluids following three days without water, after key demands were met.

#UKpol #PalestineAction #HungerStrike #PoliticalPrisoner #Activism #Prison #Gaza #Genocide #Politics

@palestine

The UK is letting the Palestine Action prisoners, who are imprisoned for disrupting the arms industry that murders children, to die in their prison cells.

Free the Palestine Action prisoners!

PS. I grew up with Bobby Sands as one of my heroes, I placed a flower on his grave when I was living in Ireland.

#PalestineAction #UKpol #HungerStrike #Israel sIreland #BobySands #History #Inhumanity #PoliticalPrisoner #HumanRights