Political Prisoners

Archive Report

Worldwide Disregard of Human Rights

U.S. Appeal for Release of Political Prisoners

The plight of political prisoners involves more than the suffering of individual men and women whose only crime was to speak out against the policies of their governments or to be considered a threat to those in power. For the most part, political prisoners remain anonymous, the forgotten victims of regimes that will not tolerate dissent. It is only when politicians, artists, journalists, intellectuals and other well-known persons are imprisoned or when governments declare an amnesty for political prisoners, as Spain did recently, that the problem receives much publicity. In the past year, the United States has sought on several occasions to bring the political prisoner issue to world attention.

The United States last November ...

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