Marius Mason to be Released to Halfway House, May 4th!

Political prisoner Marius Mason — known for his art, environmentalism, anarchism, and trans advocacy, among other things — is scheduled to be released from prison in May 2026 to a halfway house in Detroit.

At this time we don’t know what restrictions will be in place, nor for how long. We recognize the many people who have advocated, supported, and worked toward this outcome, and we hope this transition is met with dignity, safety, and care for everyone involved.

We will share more details as they become available. In the meantime please consider donating what you can to Marius’s support fund at:

supportmariusmason.org/support

Contact [email protected] if you have any specific questions.

With deepest gratitude,
The Support Marius Mason crew

Oregon DOC Appears to Have Disappeared Portland Political Prisoner Malik Muhammad

The Oregon Department of Corrections appears to have effectively disappeared Malik Muhammad, a Black Palestinian anarchist and antifascist prisoner serving one of the longest sentences handed to a protester after the 2020 George Floyd uprising.

According to court documents, Muhammad threw a Molotov cocktail at police in Oregon in 2020. In 2022, they pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and received a concurrent 10-year federal and state sentence in Oregon State Prison.

On Monday, March 30, 2026, members of Muhammad’s support team noticed something alarming: their profile had vanished from the prison messaging system GettingOut. Around the same time, their name no longer appeared in Oregon’s inmate search database. This disappearance happened in the wake of a call-in campaign to once again get Muhammad out of solitary confinement.

Since then, family and supporters have been scrambling for answers, calling Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution (EOCI) and multiple Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) offices. They’ve gotten almost nothing in return.

WWFU has also made dozens of calls across the Oregon prison system in an attempt to locate them and have been unsuccessful in getting any of our questions answered.

Calls to Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP), including the Special Management Housing (SMH) unit where Muhammad had previously been held in solitary confinement, suggested they may have been at court, but provided no confirmation.

One official in the Office of Population Management confirmed only that Muhammad had been moved to a “confidential location,” a designation repeatedly invoked while officials declined to provide any verifiable information about their whereabouts.

Staff at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution (EOCI) confirmed that Muhammad is no longer housed there. The Oregon Department of Corrections’ Public Information Officer did not provide answers, instead directing further inquiries elsewhere.

What followed was a bureaucratic loop: multiple phone numbers, referrals, and repeated contact attempts, none of which produced verifiable information about Muhammad’s location or condition.

Muhammad’s mother was given the same explanation. When she pressed for clarification, she was told that placement in a “confidential location” is determined on a case-by-case basis and could be due to medical, mental health, safety, operational, or court-related reasons, according to the Office of Population Management. No further details were provided.

These explanations, or lack-thereof, raised more questions than they answer.

People in state custody do not simply disappear from public records. Prison transfers generate paper trails. Locations are logged. Systems update. None of that appears to have happened here, or, at the very least, none of it is being disclosed.

As of publication, supporters say they have no idea where Muhammad is. They have not spoken to them since they were placed in solitary confinement prior to their disappearance. No federal agency, including the Federal Bureau of Prisons, has acknowledged taking custody.

Muhammad is, for all practical purposes, gone.

A Record of Isolation and Torture

Muhammad’s disappearance comes after years of extreme isolation.

Their support committee documented on Muhammad’s blog that  they had spent more than 250 days in solitary confinement in 2024 alone, cut off from any meaningful human contact and communication.

Solitary confinement on that scale is not just punitive, it is widely recognized as torture.

The United Nations’s “Mandela Rules” state that more than 15 days in isolation constitutes cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and can amount to torture. Decades of research have shown that prolonged isolation can cause severe psychological damage, including hallucinations, paranoia, cognitive decline, and suicidal ideation.

Muhammad has already endured conditions that meet that threshold many times over.

Now, supporters say, even the minimal visibility that remained has been stripped away.

“This is entirely different,” members of Muhammad’s support network say. “We are scared. We know nothing about Malik’s condition, location, or why ODOC has taken the extraordinary step of blocking all access and information.”

From Prosecution to Disappearance

Following Muhammad’s sentencing, prosecuted by Nathan Vasquez, their supporters exclaimed the severity of the charges and sentence already reflected a broader political crackdown on antifascist and anti-police protesters, believing that sentence was never just about the alleged conduct, but was about making an example.

An antifascist and anarchist protester. A moment of mass uprising. A state eager to reassert control.

Now, they argue, that same logic has escalated beyond prosecution and punishment into something even more extreme: disappearance.

Political Repression by Design

The use of secrecy inside prison systems is not new. “Confidential” placements and communication blackouts are often justified under the language of security.

But advocates say that when the state refuses to disclose even the most basic information, such as where a prisoner is being held, whether they are safe, whether they are alive, it crosses a line from control into outright repression.

Without transparency, there is no accountability. Without contact, there is no oversight.

And without public pressure, there is nothing to stop it from happening again.

Supporters are now calling for urgent action. They are urging people to contact the Oregon Department of Corrections, elected officials and to amplify prior reporting on Muhammad’s treatment.

Because what is happening is no longer ambiguous.

A prisoner has been removed from public record.
Their location is being withheld.
Contact has been cut off.
And the state is refusing to explain why.

Under international human rights standards, this pattern has a name: enforced disappearance. The detention of a person followed by a refusal to disclose their fate or whereabouts. It is a practice historically associated with authoritarian regimes and political repression.

The Oregon Department of Corrections may use bureaucratic language such as “confidential placement,” “operational reasons,” but the effect is the same: a human being has been made to vanish behind the walls of the state.

This is not a clerical error. It is not a routine transfer. It is an escalation.

And if it is allowed to stand, it sets a precedent: that the state can make political prisoners disappear, and face no consequences for it.

This is bigger than one case. When the state can make a prisoner vanish and refuse to account for it, it exposes a system built not on justice, but on control and impunity. Naming it matters. Resisting it matters more. Because what is happening here is not an anomaly, it is an escalation.

Who to call:

ODOC– (503)945-9090

OSP General Line– (503)378-2453

OSP SMH– (503)378-2597

Brynne Xin at the Office of Population Management–

(503)871-5496

EOCI– (541)276-0700

From We Will Free Us, by Alissa Azar

Read the original article here: https://www.wewillfreeus.org/oregon-doc-appears-to-have-disappeared-portland-protester-malik-muhammad/

Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, Nasrin Sotudeh was taken from her house arrest by IRI security forces to an unknown location.
Her husband is still in prison for exposing HR abuse of the regime and breaking the gag order forbidding him to talk to media about Mrs Sotudeh.
مهراوه دختر خانم ستوده گفت: مادر او زمانی که در خانه تنها بوده بازداشت شده. هیچ اطلاعی از محل نگهداری وی وجود ندارد. رضا خندان همسر خانم ستوده هم از آذر ۱۴۰۳ در زندان است.

#iran #NasrinSotudeh #HumanRights #politics #iri #politicalprisoner

Out Here For Them: Updates As Prairieland Federal Trial Ends

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/03/29/out-here-for-them-updates-as-prairieland-federal-trial-ends/

The War Before The War

Commentary from Mumia Abu-Jamal

https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/the-war-before-the-war/

#FreeMumia #War #RegimeChange #PoliticalPrisoner

Quote of the day, 12 March: St. Titus Brandsma

Early on Thursday, March 12, a police officer entered Titus’ cell to announce: “In the name of the Supreme Commander of the Security Police, I inform you that you are to follow me. You are leaving for the camp in Amersfoort. Transport is waiting.”

In the central yard, Titus found at least a hundred prisoners in formation; on command, they climbed into canvas-covered trucks for the trip to the concentration camp at Amersfoort, in the interior of the Netherlands. The vehicles formed a caravan under the guard of the SS Police. 

At nine o’clock in the morning, the convoy pulled into the central square of the concentration camp at Amersfoort. Guards bellowed orders: “Out quickly! Form a line and prepare for inspection!”

There the bedraggled group stood, from nine in the morning until one o’clock that afternoon, buffeted unmercifully by a frigid north wind, their feet covered with a heavy blanket of snow. All prisoners began their stay in Amersfoort standing in formation for hours, sometimes as many as eighteen. This was a practice favored by the Nazis to break the spirit of new arrivals. And it worked. How better impress on these unfortunates that they were worthless, useless dregs of humanity. When their masters finally deigned to remember they existed, it would be only to issue some new command.

On the day of Titus’ arrival, the order came at one o’clock: strip, and leave all personal effects aside. Totally naked in the frigid winter air, the prisoners were formed into groups of ten and then continued to wait. Finally, they were ordered to put on the camp’s “uniform,” rag-tag surplus remnants from the old Dutch army: pants and military jacket, worn years before by youthful, in shape soldiers; the clothing literally swallowed up Titus’ slight form. The ensemble was completed by an overcoat, which would be taken away on March 21, the first day of spring, even though in the Netherlands it would still be quite cold, and in 1942, very rainy as well.

The prisoners would spend entire days with their clothes and shoes soaked: camp regulations must be followed. Along with the uniform, each prisoner was given a number—Titus was issued Nº 58—and a colored triangle to be sewn onto the jacket pocket. As a political prisoner, Titus was assigned a red one.

Miguel Maria Arribas, O.Carm.

Chapters VIII and IX (excerpts)

Arribas O.Carm., M 2021, The Price of Truth: Titus Brandsma, Carmelite, Carmelite Media, Darien, Illinois.

Featured image: A portrait drawing of Fr. Titus when he was imprisoned at Amersfoort Transit Camp 12 March to 28 April 1942. The artist, John Dons, captures the complete sadness of the concentration camp yet sees with Fr. Titus a willing acceptance of pain and a profound inner peace. John Dons was later executed. Image credit: Carmelites (used with permission of the Nederlands Carmelitaans Instituut)

#Mumia Abu-Jamal - Unterlassene Hilfeleistung - Der politische Gefangene Mumia Abu-Jamal droht zu erblinden. Medizinische Behandlung zu verweigern ist im Gefängnissystem der #USA üblich

https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/518810.mumia-abu-jamal-unterlassene-hilfeleistung.html

#BlackPanther #repression #politicalprisoner
#FreeMumia #FreeThemAll

Kolumne von #Mumia Abu-Jamal: Kamau Sadiki zum 73. Geburtstag

https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/518811.kamau-sadiki-zum-73-geburtstag.html

#BlackPanthers #repression #politicalprisoner
#FreeMumia #FreeKamauSadiki #FreeThemAll!

On Cooperators and Their Sympathizers

Support the non-cooperating Prairieland defendants Autumn Hill, Benjamin “Champagne” Song, Daniel “Des” Rolando Sanchez Estrada, Dario Sanchez, Elizabeth Soto, Ines Soto, Janette Goering, Joy “Rowan” Gibson, Lucy Fowlkes, Maricela Rueda, Rebecca Morgan, Savanna Batten, and Zachary Evetts here: https://prairielanddefendants.com/meet-the-defendants/

Meagan Morris is currently supported as well and part of the collective defense effort standing trial, although according to available documents she initially cooperated, requesting interviews with law enforcement and providing information on other defendants that led to their subsequent arrests.

“A ‘rat’ is a traitor, a conceiver, planner or physical participator

He doesn’t sell secrets for power or cash

He betrays the trust of his team or his family hoping to save his own cowardly ass” – from “Snitches & Rats” by 21 Savage

We may say that people cooperate and have the right to, and that we also have the right to exclude them from our supportive efforts. The mutual hostility of right then barely conceals a real antagonism that has not been addressed in practice. When left to the choice of individuals, any ethics of non-cooperation is ultimately left to a matter of moral qualities absent the consideration of the conditions and social relations within which they are cultivated. Without this, the question of whether or not people can withstand the blows of repression has no content beyond their shapeless fears of what is to come.

This then leads the betrayals of cooperators to be excused by any number of factors in the situation, as if anyone would be susceptible to cooperate if they had to endure the experience of the rat. The rat then becomes a tragic figure. Having to face their betrayal tugs on our heartstrings, and the tragedy then merely reflects back a farce upon us. We then cringe from the specter of responsibility that hangs over us. When we flinch before the facts of what must be done, anything becomes excusable, and basic facts of a situation become distorted. What is a typical night in jail for the many people who never talk instead becomes “torture,” because we must feel empathy for the coward who cannot stomach their own discomfort. The actions of the state to compel such equivocations from the captured lead to a horror of any means of coercion at all, yet this is precisely the necessity with which we are confronted. It is then not a matter of abstract individuals possessing more or less intrinsic qualities, but the contention of a balance of forces in struggle.

It cannot be said then that the rat deserves “nothing.” Such actions require responses for our own protection, for our own longevity. The baseline hatred and disgust for the rat is the ambient recognition of this necessity of survival in a struggle against a society of hostile relations. This task cannot be managed by any mutual respect for the rights of individuals. In a political movement, we simply cannot do whatever we want. For any concerns of authoritarianism, there is no greater assertion of the authoritarian personality than the singular and unilateral declaration that one’s own life is worth more than another facing repression and deciding instead to send others to prison to save your own skin. The rat makes a wager: “maybe the state will take less of my life-time if I give them the means of taking the life-time of others.” It is the very logic of competition that emanates from the essence of capitalist social relations. The rat then creates a situation in which a contrary force must match this threat. Authority is then not the problem in itself. It is rather a problem of an antagonistic relation that must be confronted.

There is then the necessity of creating the actual means of developing behavior that successfully reproduces revolutionary movements, and suppressing that which threatens this development. The means of effecting this in a conscious and directed manner in our lives and relations is then a clear necessity. Against the asymmetrical force of the state, there is no room to maneuver if the actions of the cooperator are tolerated to any extent. Even the expression of empathy for their ordeal communicates a weakness that will be exploited either immediately or in the near future and simply wastes time that no one has. We then become enamored with the tragedy and turn away from the reasons of those who never cooperated to remain steadfast as they have, an immensely more enriching source of education than can be found in the motivations of a rat. In this very differentiation we find the foundations for a movement that will be resilient to repression.

A movement cannot tolerate any hesitation on this matter. We all must take note of who does balk in the face of the necessity of non-cooperation and insulate ourselves from their presence and influence. The means of support in the face of repression have to cohere into a definite political front and be leveraged to deter cooperation. A rat must not only receive no support, but must be subject to actions that demonstrate to all those who bear witness that betrayal has consequences. Anything less than this fails to recognize that the repression that faces individuals is but a single front in a struggle that pervades throughout the whole of social life. Supporting each other against this very repression negates that which separates us through conscious action upon these interdependent relations. As such, support is then never unconditional, for it creates a series of reciprocal obligations between partisans. Solidarity is the cohesion that arises from the recognition of this necessity put into practice.

Richard Hunsinger

Source: A Single Hail From Below