Political prisoners
Booker Ngesa Omole was abducted, tortured and remains illegally detained, says CPM-K Kenyan communist leader Booker Omole remains imprisoned after torture

Produced in court a day and a half after abduction and alleged torture, Booker Ngesa Omole, general secretary of Communist Party Marxist-Kenya (CPM-K), was denied bail, injured, and sent to a notorious prison.

Booker Ngesa Omole was abducted, tortured and remains illegally detained, says CPM-K Kenyan communist leader Booker Ngesa Omole was abducted, tortured, and remains illegally detained, says CPM-K

The Communist Party Marxist-Kenya says its secretary general, Booker Ngesa Omole, was abducted and tortured by Kenyan security officers and is now being held at Mlolongo Police Station. The incident has sparked growing public and political pressure for his immediate release.

Compound detention facility run by the Israeli Security Agency Living hell: Israel’s prison system as an instrument of oppression

The transformation of Israeli detention facilities into what B’Tselem rightly calls torture camps is a stark symbol of how the machinery of the state can be deployed to dehumanize an entire population.

Protest at ICRC building in Gaza in support of Palestinian political prisoners International campaign demands the resumption of ICRC’s visits to political detainees in Israeli jails

The Israeli occupation authorities have banned the international organization from visiting political detainees held in its prisons since October 7, 2023, which many say reflects Israel’s collective punishment policy.

Left-wing Mazdoor Kisan Party chairman, Salar Faiyaz Ali, speaks at a rally in Pakistan Left-wing Pakistani leader freed after two months in jail

MKP activists are regularly harassed and arrested by the security forces for leading movements for land rights or resisting forceful land grabs by the landlord-state nexus in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Israel escalates crackdown on Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement IOF escalates abuse against Palestinian women prisoners in Damon

These assaults form part of a broader deterioration in detention conditions, which prisoners say continue to worsen.

Political prisoner and activist from Benin denounces “fascist methods” of Talon government

Damien Dégbé told Brasil de Fato about the crackdown on opponents three months before he was arrested; he was detained on October 21

Alaa Abd el-Fattah Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah released from prison

Alaa’s release by way of a presidential pardon came after a long international solidarity campaign calling for his freedom and a 10-month hunger strike by his elderly mother.

Israeli tanks in the West Bank Resistance groups resume operations in the West Bank, Israel launches sweeping crackdown

Over 1000 Palestinians have been arrested in the last couple of days, after two major ambush attacks were carried out by Palestinian resistance groups against the IOF in the northern West Bank.

three palestinian musicians playing ouds Black and Palestinian solidarity at the Peoples Conference in Detroit

One of the central themes at the gathering of thousands in Detroit linked Black and Palestinian liberation through culture, struggle, and solidarity.

People's Conference for Palestine 2024 Second annual “People’s Conference for Palestine” to draw thousands

From August 29–31, activists, journalists, and former political prisoners will participate in the 2nd People’s Conference for Palestine

IOF soldiers and tanks on the street IOF storms Ramallah city center, wounding 58 civilians, including a child

The offensive is considered a major escalation as it took place in Ramallah, the political and administrative hub of the Palestinian Authority.