James Luckey-Lange, 28, was released this week with several other U.S. citizens from the country’s notorious prison system after going missing in December, his family said.
Category: Political Prisoners
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How Prison Inspired Jafar Panahi to Double Down on Filming Illegally
During filming, the authorities discovered “It Was Just an Accident.” But a French producer had been engaged to finish this ultimate winner of the top prize at Cannes.
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Bloomberg Disciplines Journalists Over Russia Prisoner Swap Article
The news organization said it had broken an embargo about the news in a violation of its editorial standards.
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Jubilation at The Wall Street Journal After Evan Gershkovich Is Freed
“I cannot even begin to describe the immense happiness and relief that this news brings,” the paper’s editor wrote to the staff.
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Jubilation erupts inside The Wall Street Journal after Evan Gershkovich is freed.
“I cannot even begin to describe the immense happiness and relief that this news brings,” the paper’s editor wrote to the staff.
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Brittney Griner Announces Birth of Son
Less than two years after her release from a Russian penal colony, the W.N.B.A. center and two-time Olympic gold medal winner said that her son was born on July 8.
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Chinese Activists Who Gave #MeToo Victims a Voice Are Found Guilty
Huang Xueqin, a journalist, and Wang Jianbing, a labor activist, were convicted of subversion, a vaguely worded charge long seen as a tool for muzzling dissent.
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Iran Sentences Prominent Rapper to Death, Lawyer Says
The rapper, Toomaj Salehi, was initially arrested after releasing music in support of the 2022 protests over the death of a young woman in police custody.
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Tucker Carlson’s Lesson in the Perils of Giving Airtime to an Autocrat
The death of Aleksei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most vocal domestic opponent, prompted fresh criticism on Friday of the right-wing host’s recent interview with Vladimir Putin.
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Tucker Carlson Urges Putin to Release American Journalist
The Russian president was noncommittal after Mr. Carlson asked about Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who has been held in a Moscow prison for nearly a year.