Wilmington Ten
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title:
Wilmington Ten
text:
The Wilmington Ten were nine young men and a woman who were wrongfully convicted in 1971 in Wilmington, North Carolina, of arson and conspiracy. Most were sentenced to 29 years in prison, and all ten served nearly a decade in jail before an appeal won their release. The case became an international cause célèbre, in which many critics of the city and state characterized the activists as political prisoners. Amnesty International took up the case in 1976 and provided legal defense counsel to appe
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description:
Group of wrongfully convicted American prisoners
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Ten
date created:
2007-03-05T14:43:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T04:20:25Z
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