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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Expected to Travel to U.S. After Prison Term as Rights Groups Raise Alarm Over His Whereabouts

The reported grant of U.S. humanitarian parole follows an opaque transfer from prison that has prompted legal challenges and questions about forced disappearance and negotiated exile

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Political Prisoners

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Expected to Travel to U.S. After Prison Term as Rights Groups Raise Alarm Over His Whereabouts

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Remains Unaccounted For After Prison Term Ended

ASEAN Reopens In-Person Diplomacy With Myanmar, Demands Tangible Steps on Peace Plan

Lukashenko Pardons 32 Prisoners, 28 Convicted Under 'Extremism' Laws

Xi Hosts Min Aung Hlaing in Beijing as China Pledges Closer Ties

Family Says French Football Stars Silent as Gleizes Seeks Algerian Pardon

Venezuelan Government Rejects Negotiations with María Corina Machado

Boualem Sansal Breaks With Gallimard After Dispute Over Housing, Money and Trust

Brooklyn Rivera Dies in Nicaraguan State Custody

Carmen Navas, Who Searched for Missing Detainee Son, Dies Days After Venezuela Confirms His Death

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Venezuelan Mother Dies Days After Burying Son Whose Death in Custody Was Finally Confirmed

Delcy Rodríguez Argues Venezuela’s Esequibo Claim at The Hague

U.S.-Brokered Swap Frees Five Held in Belarus and Russia, Including Journalist Andrzej Poczobut

Venezuela Acknowledges 2025 Death of Political Prisoner as Prosecutors Open Inquiry

Venezuela Confirms 2025 Custody Death of Detainee Victor Hugo Quero

Iran’s Jailed Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Critically Ill as Transfer to Tehran Stalls

Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi in Critical Condition, Lawyer Says

Azat Miftakhov Alleges Torture at Russia’s IK-18 ‘Polar Owl’ Colony

Iran Executes Three Over January Protests as Death-Penalty Wave Intensifies

Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Critical in Iran Hospital After Prison Health Collapse

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