Sean and Reginald were convicted in their teens without any physical evidence or witness accounts. After serving nearly three decades in prison, they were finally exonerated, but prosecutors are still refusing to clear their names and back a certificate of innocence. They are survivors of torture at the hands of John Burge's Midnight Crew. John Burge’s Midnight Crew are a group of detectives who were found guilty of having directly participated in or implicitly approved the torture of at least 118 innocent, mostly Black men in order to coerce false confessions from the 1970’s well into the 1990’s.

The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression calls on all allies in the movement for justice to gather for a People’s Hearing on Police Crimes and the Injustice System!

On May 19th, in Peoria, Illinois, Anthony Gay was convicted in federal court and is now a political prisoner based on false charges of illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon.

His first Federal trial on these charges less than a month earlier, ended in a hung jury, demonstrating that Anthony had convincingly argued that these charges were false. Even more remarkably, he achieved that hung jury pro se – that is, representing himself.

Statement from the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression on the wrongful conviction of political prisoner, Anthony Gay.