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December Prisoners for Peace List | 2025

This page lists individuals currently imprisoned for their conscientious objection, peaceful beliefs, or nonviolent actions. These cases highlight the challenges faced by people jailed for exercising their rights, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and peaceful expression.

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War Resisters’ International Executive Committee Statement: No to War in Rojava

Escalations and genocides across the world continue to scar communities and destabilize entire regions.

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Colombia: Nonviolent Direct Action against Expodefensa repressed by Public Forces

On 1st December 2025, antimilitarist organisations, collectives, activists and artists carried out a nonviolent direct action against the Expodefensa Arms Fair, held in Bogotá, Colombia, from 1st to 3rd December. The action, called as a peaceful sit-in outside the Corferias exhibition centre at 2pm on the opening day of the fair, was harassed, hindered and obstructed from the outset by the presence of Public Forces.

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Cyprus (North): Trial of conscientious objector Hasan Rahvancıoğlu postponed: He will face three separate cases

The trial of Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector Hasan Rahvancıoğlu, who is being prosecuted for refusing to comply with a mobilisation call, was held on November 27 at the military court in Nicosia.