Mumia Abu-Jamal: Advocacy Groups Submit Petition to United Nations Calling for Action
The filing says decades of solitary confinement, a biased appeals process and denied medical care violate international human rights standards.
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Defector Groups to Submit Petition to UN Human Rights Commission on the 31st Opposing Name Change for Defectors; Government's Imposition of 'North Korean Hometown People' Calls It Insulting. Defectors will submit a petition to the UN Human Rights Commission on the 31st protesting Unification Minister Jeong Dong-young's unilateral change of the designation for North Korean defectors. The Central Association of North Korean Defectors, a defector g…
Journalist, Elder Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Perpetual Detention Unjust, Human Rights Groups Appeal to United Nations
Journalist, Elder Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Perpetual Detention Unjust, Human Rights Groups Appeal to United NationsJuly 28, 2026July 28, 2026, Philadelphia— For more than 44 years, U.S. citizen Mumia Abu-Jamal has been arbitrarily detained in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Today, Abolitionist Law Center and a national...
Imprisoned Writer Is Seeking United Nations Intervention
THE GUARDIAN - As he approaches the 45th anniversary of his incarceration in December, the Black radical writer and prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is taking his claim that he has been subjected to arbitrary imprisonment for a crime that he did not commit to a new tribunal: the United Nations in Geneva. On Tuesday Abu-Jamal, 72, lodged a petition with the UN’s working group on arbitrary detention, a body within the Human Rights Council. It marks the la…
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