Political Prisoners

They denounce a new wave of human rights violations in Nicaragua

The Blue and White Monitoring organization revealed that there were harassments, raids and arrests of opponents between Monday and Tuesday

The US denounced the poor conditions in which the hundreds of political prisoners live in Venezuela

The State Department denounced in its annual report on human rights that the Nicolás Maduro regime keeps “hundreds” of politically motivated prisoners in prison, many of them in critical conditions

The Cuban dictatorship once again arrested Berta Soler, leader of the Ladies in White

Castro forces also arbitrarily apprehended Ángel Moya, the activist's husband. Both were released this Monday morning

Prisoners Defenders denounced that there are more than 1,000 political prisoners in Cuba

The organization indicated that 38 of them are minors, the youngest are 13 years old. The majority of those arrested are for participating in the July demonstrations last year

Political Prisoners in Nicaragua Are Already 181

The Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners reported the increase in those deprived of their liberty because they were critics of Daniel Ortega. The IACHR endorsed the report

The Venezuelan opposition demanded before the UN the release of the “political prisoners”

Juan Pablo Guanipa said that the prisoners are looking for fair judicial proceedings, medical care, food because “they don't even allow families to get their food

11J: The EU expressed its concern about the trials of those who demonstrated against the Cuban dictatorship

The EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, warned that the sentences “are disproportionate” and urged the regime to release “all political prisoners and those detained solely for having exercised their freedom of peaceful assembly and expression”

Navalny habla sobre la vida en prisión en su primera entrevista en cautiverio