{"id":26622,"date":"2021-02-04T20:11:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T20:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/02\/04\/bring-sundiata-home-the-case-for-freeing-elderly-political-prisoners\/"},"modified":"2021-02-04T20:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T20:11:47","slug":"bring-sundiata-home-the-case-for-freeing-elderly-political-prisoners-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/04\/bring-sundiata-home-the-case-for-freeing-elderly-political-prisoners-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bring Sundiata home\u2019: The case for freeing elderly political prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"ETWXVSTHFxE\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>At 84 years old, Sundiata Acoli has been in prison for 48 years, and has been denied parole six times. Last December, he was diagnosed with COVID-19. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Rev. Lukata Mjumbe of the Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign joins Eddie Conway to discuss Acoli&#8217;s life as an organizer, mathematician, artist, and poet; the push by his friends and family, along with faith leaders, to secure his release; and the challenges aging prisoners face to their health and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and making a small donation: <\/p>\n<p>Donate: <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/donate-yt\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/therealnews.com\/donate-yt<\/a><br \/>\nSign up for our newsletter: hhttps:\/\/therealnews.com\/sign-up-yt<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/therealnews\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/therealnews<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therealnews\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/therealnews<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/02\/04\/bring-sundiata-home-the-case-for-freeing-elderly-political-prisoners\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 84 years old, Sundiata Acoli has been in prison for 48 years, and has been denied parole six times. Last December, he was diagnosed with COVID-19. In\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26623,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622\/revisions\/26623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}