received harsh sentences for informing on several Detroit representatives. Lyndon LaRouche (imprisoned 19881994): LaRouche was convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. LaRouche's attorney called the conviction politically motivated, while the judge in question said the idea that LaRouche's organization was a sufficient threat to warrant this "just defies human experience." The LaRouche movement, which mixes far-left and far-right rhetoric, and which the The New York Times calls "cult-like", has claimed that LaRouche is a political prisoner and appealed to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights for relief; the WAGD did not consider his case. Chelsea Manning (imprisoned 20102017) was described as a prisoner of conscience by TheCanary, which accused Amnesty International of pro-US bias for excluding Manning. Paul Manafort (imprisoned 20192020) describes himself as a "political prisoner" for his conviction in the Mueller special counsel investigation. People sentenced to prison for alleged involvement with the January 6 United States Capitol attack have been called political prisoners by InfoWars and Tucker Carlson, as well as several Republican members of Congress. Citing poor conditions, 34 prisoners published a letter that requested a transfer to Guantanamo Bay in which 7 signers called themselves "political prisoners". See also MKUltra, COINTELPRO, and the Church Committee Political abuse of psychiatry, including 5150 (involuntary psychiatric hold) Communications Management Unit (CMU) Prison abolition movement and Anarchist Black Cross Prisoners' rights Prison Radio Attica Prison riot National Lawyers Guild International Labor Defense and National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners Endnotes References External links Publications tagged as "prisoners of conscience" and "United States" by Amnesty International Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Search for documents from the United Nations OHCHR Political Prisoners collection in The Freedom Archives Political Prisoners by Location by Anarchist Black Cross Human rights in the United States Imprisonment and detention Political repression in the United States Penal system in the United States