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The socialist dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced over the weekend that his regime has detained at least 2,000 Venezuelans as part of the ongoing crackdown on protests against Maduro’s attempts to steal the July 28 presidential election.

Former President Donald Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon will report to prison by Monday, July 1, after the Supreme Court denied a request for him to stay out of jail pending the outcome of his appeal.

Donald Trump said he would work to free pro-life activists imprisoned by the pro-abortion Biden administration, should he be elected.

Anti-regime activists in Iran reportedly received calls from “desperate” officials urging them to mourn President Ebrahim Raisi.

Former Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez marked three years as a political prisoner of the current Bolivian socialist government on Wednesday, releasing a public letter in which she reaffirmed her innocence and demanded the Bolivian courts free her.

Chile said the Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal organization, was involved in the killing of Venezuelan dissident Ronald Ojeda.

Ukrainian Defense Intelligence agency leader Kyrylo Budanov claimed in remarks on Sunday that he had reason to believe Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose death the Russian government announced on February 16, died of “natural” causes, not state-sponsored homicide.

Viktor Demchenko, a 71-year-old Ukrainian man, died in a Russian prison while on trial for espionage, activists said Sunday.

Tucker Carlson repeatedly pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin to consider freeing jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in an interview published Thursday, receiving a negative response.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny vanished from prison last week, with no explanation from the authorities and no information about where he was taken.

A woman’s rights activist in Iran who organized protest actions from within Iran’s notorious Evin prison, Narges Mohammadi, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Former President Donald Trump has pledged to create a task force if reelected to review and potentially pardon or commute the sentences of every “political prisoner who’s been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration.”

Cubans on the island and in exile are marking the two-year anniversary on Tuesday of the historic, nationwide anti-communist protests of July 11, 2021, estimated to have drawn out nearly 200,000 people to demand an end to the violent Castro family oligarchy.

Amnesty International issued an “urgent” call for Cuba to free Yoruba leader Loreto Hernández García and his wife, Donaida Pérez Paseiro.

Officials in Venezuela’s socialist regime, a notorious human rights abuser, inspected the facilities of a brand new detention center on Wednesday named after the late South African President Nelson Mandela.

Russians living in over 100 cities around the world held demonstrations on Sunday to support jailed dissident Alexei Navalny on his birthday. It was Navalny’s third birthday since he narrowly survived an assassination attempt in Siberia, recuperated in Germany, and was thrown in prison upon arriving back in Moscow.

Former President Donald Trump reached number one on Billboard’s digital song sales chart with his debut single, “Justice For All,” featuring the J6 Prison Choir.

Former top Trump administration official Kash Patel said the former president’s number one iTunes song, “Justice For All,” featuring the “January 6 Prison Choir,” “broke the music industry” because they put “America First values back front and center.”

Former President Donald Trump reached number one on the iTunes chart with his debut single, “Justice For All,” beating superstars like Miley Cyrus and Tim McGraw. “Justice For All,” is a tribute to the January 6 prisoners that features the

Colombia’s left-wing President Gustavo Petro, a former urban guerrilla fighter who spent ten years running with a murderous Marxist insurgent gang in the 1970s, turned against his ideological fellow traveler Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua on Thursday.

The parents of Xin Shang, a 29-year-old filmmaker from southern Dalian, China, received a notice this week that he had been arrested for reciting a William Shakespeare sonnet at an anti-government protest in November, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Thursday.

A human rights organization called Safeguard Defenders published a report on Tuesday charging the Chinese Communist Party with using psychiatric hospitals to imprison political dissidents.

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was transferred without warning on Tuesday from the prison colony where he has been held since his arrest in January 2021. Prison officials refused to say why he was moved, or where he has been taken.

Hardline Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has used his time in the dock to condemn Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Rep. Steube has yet to hear from the D.C. Department of Corrections, whose director he queried in July about the status of the Jan. 6 detainees.

Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and 20 Republican members on Tuesday demanded a congressional hearing over the reported mistreatment of January 6 political prisoners being held by the D.C. Department of Corrections, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.

Caroline Ribera, daughter of Bolivia’s former interim president Jeanine Anez, said on Wednesday that her 54-year-old mother was “attacked and beaten” by a police officer while incarcerated in Miraflores Prison in La Paz. Anez was arrested in March for allegedly conspiring to overthrow her predecessor, Evo Morales.

The human rights organization Cuban Prisoners Defenders released a report on Thursday confirming the existence of 683 political prisoners in Cuba, a number representing a 400-percent increase from the number in November 2020.

Cuban officials are committing “brutal abuses” against Cubans who participated in the largely peaceful July 11 protests against the country’s 62-year-old communist regime, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch on Tuesday.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) announced over the weekend that General Min Aung Hlaing, leader of the military junta in Myanmar, will not be invited to the association’s October 26-28 summit. The unprecedented snub of Gen. Hlaing was welcomed by the Burmese opposition, which asked ASEAN to go even further and invite a representative from the civilian shadow government.

Former President Donald Trump released a statement that slammed former President Barack Obama for attending a baseball game with Cuban Dictator Raúl Castro and supporting him as the “Communist Cuban Government” had “imprisoned, beat, and killed the Cuban people.”

The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), a non-governmental organization, testified before the United Nations on Thursday that the island’s communist regime had executed over 30,000 arbitrary arrests in the past five years.

A coalition of Latin American anti-communist activists, including Cuban dissidents who suffer regular repression on the island, organized a multi-continental set of peaceful assemblies Thursday calling for the freedom of 47 pro-democracy activists arrested in Hong Kong for allegedly violating an illegal “national security” law.

A pair of pro-Kremlin humorists who call themselves “Vovan and Lexus” on Thursday tricked top Amnesty International (AI) managers into admitting they “undermined” captive Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, and seriously damaged their own credibility, by stripping Navalny of his “prisoner of conscience” status this week after an intense pressure campaign orchestrated by Russian media operatives.

Author, blogger, and Chinese-born Australian citizen Yang Hengjun, arrested by China in 2019 on murky allegations of espionage in January 2019 and held without trial ever since, sent a Christmas on Tuesday message to the family he isn’t allowed to see.

Swedish climate activist Great Thunberg on Saturday joined an online campaign demanding the release of 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists detained in China.