night's lantern
by john bart gerald
graphics by julie maas
24 january 2013
update of 9 april 2018
innocent, or guilty of refusing injustice
political prisoners in north americafree all political prisoners
main political prisoners pageposter/poem: "Now from a distance"
"Georgia Prison Strike"
poem: "Bones," by Marilyn Buck
poster: "Sam Melville / Jonathan Jackson Brigade"
poster/poem: "¡Habrá Más Poesía!" Antonio Guerrero, Cuba 5"
poster/poem: "mind control"
political prisoner updates
18 Muslims in Toronto previous 2008 2008 2010 2010 2011 2013 2015 2015
Aboriginal previous previous previous previous previous previous 2008 2008 2008 2014
Mumia Abu-Jamal previous previous 2010 2011 2011 2012 2012 2013 2015 2015 2016
Sundiata Acoli previous 2013 2013 2013 2013 2016
Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin previous 2009 2013 2013 2015 2015 2016
Sami Al-Arian previous 2008 2015
Djamel Ameziane 2008 2015 2016
Angola 3 previous
Albert Woodfox 2008 2013 2013, 2013 2014 2015 2016
Herman Wallace 2013 2013 2013
Librado Jacinto Baños Rodriguez 2016
Lori Berenson 2010 2010 2010 2015 2015 returned
Marilyn Buck previous 2010 2010 2012 2013 2013
Canadian Security Certificates previous 2008 2011 2012 2013
Hassan Almrei previous 2009 2016
Adil Charkaoui previous 2008 2008 2009 2009
Mohamed Harkat previous 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2011 2011 2012 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017
Mahmoud Jaballah previous
Mohammad Mahjoub previous 2009 2009 2010 2012 2013
Judith Clark previous 2016 2017 2017
Cuba Five previous previous 2008 2008 2010 2011 2014 2015 all released
Troy Davis 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011
Dr. Rafil Dhafir previous 2009 2012 2016
G-20 media coverage 2012 out
Georgia Prison Strike 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
David Gilbert previous 2012 2012 2013
Guantanamo previous previous 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2013 2014
Sami al-Hajj previous 2007 2007 2008 2016
Abu Hamza al-Masri 2015 2016
Hancock 38 2011 2011
Fahad Hashmi 2014 2016
Robert Seth Hayes previous 2013 2016
Omar Khadr previous (throughout 2005, 2006, 2007) previous (throughout 2008) 2008 2008/LAW 2008 2008/LAW 2008 2008/LAW 2008 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009/LAW 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2012 2012 2012 2012 2015 correction 2015 freed on bail 2015 2015 2016
Lucasville 5 previous 2011 2011
Jeffrey Luers previous 2009 out
Ruchell Cinque Magee 2004 2018
Chelsea Manning media coverage 2013 2013 2016 2017
Eric McDavid previous 2015
Tarek Mehanna 2012
The MOVE 9 previous previous 2015
Ramiro "Ramsey" Muñiz 2012 2013
Said Namouh 2010 2016
New York 3 2007
Herman Bell 2007 2018
Occupy media coverage 2012
Sekou Odinga 2014 2016
Ohio Seven previous 2011 2013
Jaan Laaman previous 2011 2013 2017
Raymond Luc Levasseur previous out under supervision 2013
Tom William Manning previous 2013 2013 2016 2017
Joseph Padilla previous 2012
Pelican Bay 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2015
Leonard Peltier previous 2009 2009 2009 2013 2014 2016 2016
Plowshares previous previous 2008 2008 2008 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2011 2012 2013 2013 2014 2014 2015 Transform Now Plowshares freed 2015 Kings Bay Plowshares 2018
Marcia Powell 2010
Oscar López Rivera previous 2016 2017
Assata Shakur 2008 2013 2013 ("Open Letter from Assata Shakur" 1998) 2017
Dr. Mutulu Shakur previous 2016 2016
Russell Maroon Shoats previous 2012 2013 2013 2014 2016
Aafia Siddiqui 2010 2010 2010 2013 2015 2018
Lynne Stewart previous 2009 2010 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2014 compassionate release
Charles Turner 2012 2013, out
A war on the poor previous 2008 2008 2008 SimonTrinidad 2014
War resisters previous 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2012 2012 2013 2013 2015