Political Prisoners Watch
Activists hold up signs with the names of some of the political prisoners released from Nicaragua, as they await their arrival at Washington, DC’s Dulles International Airport in February 2023. (Image credit: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
Political Prisoners Watch draws attention to the ways undemocratic leaders are silencing democracy’s courageous guardians by imprisoning them, and to the broader effects political imprisonment has on society.
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