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- Lawyers petitioned the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to order Mumia Abu-Jamal’s release.
- Abu-Jamal, 72, was convicted of the 1981 murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner, resentenced in 2011 to life without parole after his death sentence was overturned, and faces blindness due to a 2025 cataract-surgery complication that caused diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.
- The UN Working Group previously urged a moratorium on life-without-parole sentences and reviewed Leonard Peltier’s case.
