Shakur was identified as a political prisoner as early as October 8, 1973, by Angela Davis, and in an April 3, 1977, The New York Times advertisement purchased by the Easter Coalition for Human Rights. An international panel of seven jurists were invited by Hinds to tour a number of U.S. prisons, and concluded in a report filed with the United Nations Commission on Human Rights that the conditions of her solitary confinement were “totally unbefitting any prisoner”. Their investigation, which focused on alleged human rights abuses of political prisoners, cited Shakur as “one of the worst cases” of such abuses and including her in “a class of victims of FBI misconduct through the COINTELPRO strategy and other forms of illegal government conduct who as political activists have been selectively targeted for provocation, false arrests, entrapment, fabrication of evidence, and spurious criminal prosecutions”.
Clearly I left out a lot of important things. I just realized I’ve been ignorant to many things for a long time, including how I always genuinely assumed the FBI most wanted list was reserved for actually dangerous people, not old ladies who committed a crime 40 years ago and are ideological enemies of the fascist state.
Here’s a part you left out:
Your support for the regime has been noted.
Clearly I left out a lot of important things. I just realized I’ve been ignorant to many things for a long time, including how I always genuinely assumed the FBI most wanted list was reserved for actually dangerous people, not old ladies who committed a crime 40 years ago and are ideological enemies of the fascist state.