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Global movement demands freedom for Mumia
By Joe Piette posted on May 3, 2021
Mumia Abu-Jamal has fought for international solidarity since he wrote for The Black Panther newspaper as a 14-year-old in 1968. Today, from State Correctional Institute Mahanoy, he continues to encourage all revolutionaries to support each other’s struggles regardless of where in the world they may be.
In front of the U.S. Embassy, Paris, April 24. Photo credit: Jacky Hortaut
Solidarity is a reciprocal thing. People around the world have signed petitions, written letters and called Pennsylvania officials demanding Mumia’s release from prison, because he is a political prisoner, because he’s innocent and because ailing and elderly people should not be incarcerated.
Pussy Riot, the feminist punk collective, announced in a video trailer that it will release a new video today dedicated “to all Russian political prisoners.”
One of its leading members, Masha Alekhina, was sentenced to two months house arrest for “violating sanitary-epidemiological norms” that could spread Covid-19 at protests on 23 January in support of the jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. Navalny’s film about a luxurious palace allegedly built for President Vladimir Putin has been viewed over 100 million times since it was released on YouTube on 19 January.
State media have also accused Alekhina and another Pussy Riot activist, Lucy Shteyn, of ramming a police car.