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Nicaraguans “live in a state of terror,” said Dora María Tellez, a prominent Ortega critic who was imprisoned for nearly two years before she was stripped of her nationality and forced into exile in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Mr. Clifford is a former business associate of imprisoned newsman Jimmy Lai and author of a Lai biography, “The Troublemaker.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The BBC is aware of only one who has been imprisoned - a former head of Izolyatsia who was arrested in Kyiv in 2021 and has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Among those imprisoned were the president’s top White House aides, his attorney general and his personal legal counsel.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
John Barry lay imprisoned by both a heavy beam and a water heater.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
