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• Schneersohn, Joseph Isaac, 1880-1950

• The Accused (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951), by Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, trans. by Edward Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Prince in Prison: The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe's Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927: An Extract from Likkutei Dibburim, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Uri Kaploun (HTML at chabad.org)

• The Making of Chassidim: A Letter Written by the Previous Lubavitcher, Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Shimon Neubort (HTML at chabad.org)

• The Accused (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951), by Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, trans. by Edward Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Prince in Prison: The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe's Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927: An Extract from Likkutei Dibburim, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Uri Kaploun (HTML at chabad.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Political Persecution Today (International Committee for Political Prisoners, 1925), by International Committee for Political Prisoners (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror (New York: Institute on Medicine as a Profession, c2013), by Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (PDF with commentary at imapny.org)

• Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, Together With Foreword by Chairman Feinstein, and Additional and Minority Views (redacted declassified summary version released 2014), by United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, contrib. by Dianne Feinstein, John D. Rockefeller, Ron Wyden, Mark Udall, Martin Heinrich, Angus King, Susan Collins, Saxby Chambliss, Richard M. Burr, James E. Risch, Daniel R. Coats, Marco Rubio, and Tom A. Coburn (PDF at senate.gov)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)

• The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (New York and Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, 2010), by Simone Gigliotti (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• People's Republic of China Nine Years After Tiananmen: Still a "Counter-Revolutionary Riot"? (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Upheaval in China! (1989), by Tom Barrett and Xiao Dian (HTML at marxists.org)

• Second Report on the Situation of Political Prisoners and Their Relatives in Cuba: Approved by the Commission at its Third Meeting, Held on April 8, 1970 (General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, 1970), by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report on the Situation of Political Prisoners and Their Relatives in Cuba (Washington: Pan American Union, 1963), by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political Imprisonment in Cuba (reprint; CANF pamphlet #22; Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation, 1987), by Amnesty International (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, the Death of Teddy's Bear, and the Sovereign Exception of Guantánamo (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Magnus Fiskesjö (PDF at prickly-paradigm.com)

• Irish Rebels in English Prisons: A Record of Prison Life (New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1899), by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Irish Rebels in English Prisons: A Record of Prison Life (New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1899), by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (multiple formats at archive.org)

• La Déportation de 1871: Souvenirs d'un Évadé de Nouméa (in French; Paris: G. Charpentier et cie, 1889), by Achille Ballière (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (New York and Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, 2010), by Simone Gigliotti (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Sonnenburg Torture Camp (New York: Workers International Relief, 1934), by Escaped prisoner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sonnenburg Torture Camp (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1934), by Escaped prisoner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Terror in Braunschweig: Aus dem Ersten Quartal der Hitlerherrschaft (in German; Zurich: Verlag Sozialistische Arbeiter-Internationale, 1933), by Kommission zur Untersuchung der Lage der Politischen Gefangenen (PDF in Germany)

• The Life and Letters of Lady Arabella Stuart, Including Numerous Original and Unpublished Documents (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866), by Elizabeth Cooper, contrib. by Arabella Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Captive Royal Children (London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1911), by Grace I. Whitham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Life and Letters of Lady Arabella Stuart, Including Numerous Original and Unpublished Documents (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866), by Elizabeth Cooper, contrib. by Arabella Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indonesia: Release Prisoners of Conscience Now! (1998), by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Ervand Abrahamian (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Israel / South Lebanon: Israel's Forgotten Hostages: Lebanese Detainees in Israel and Khiam Detention Centre (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• My Ten Years' Imprisonment (Cassell and Company, 1886), by Silvio Pellico, trans. by Thomas Roscoe (Gutenberg text)

• A Personal Account of the Experience of a Prisoner of Conscience in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (London: Amnesty International, 1979), by Alí Lameda (PDF at amnesty.org)
• The Hidden Gulag: Putting Human Rights on the North Korea Policy Agenda: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First session, November 4, 2003 (Washington: GPO, 2003), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF and text at govinfo.gov

• The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps: Prisoners' Testimonies and Satellite Photographs (second edition; Washington, DC: U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, c2012), by David R. Hawk (PDF at hrnk.org)

• Israel / South Lebanon: Israel's Forgotten Hostages: Lebanese Detainees in Israel and Khiam Detention Centre (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Syria: An Amnesty International Briefing (1983), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Syria (AI briefing #16; 1979), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Libya: Amnesty International's Prisoner Concerns in the Light of Recent Legal Reforms (1991), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Amnesty International Annual Report, by Amnesty International (partial serial archives)
• The Wire, by Amnesty International (full serial archives)

• Political Prisoners in Poland: An Exposure of the Persecution of Political, Racial and Religious Minorities To-day in Poland, From Documentary Sources (New York: International Committee for Political Prisoners, 1927), by International Committee for Political Prisoners (page images at HathiTrust)

• Deadly Detention: Deaths in Custody Amid Popular Protest in Syria (2011), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Syria, Smothering Freedom of Expression: The Detention of Peaceful Critics (2002), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Syria, Double Injustice: Prisoners of Conscience Detained Beyond Expiry of Their Sentences (1999), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Syria, Repression and Impunity: The Forgotten Victims (1995), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Syria: Long-Term Detention and Torture of Political Prisoners (1992), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Syria: An Amnesty International Briefing (1983), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Syria (AI briefing #16; 1979), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Syria, Caught in a Regional Conflict: Lebanese, Palestinian, and Jordanian Political Detainees in Syria (1999), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Inquiry Into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody (redacted unclassified version; 2008), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
  • PDF at senate.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Open Letter to President Harding, by Industrial Workers of the World (PDF page images at MSU)

• Venezuela, Land of Oil and Tyranny (New York: International Committee for Political Prisoners, 1931), by International Committee for Political Prisoners (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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