Afghanistan, Nov. 11 -- The United States Senate has unanimously adopted a resolution supporting October 30 as the International Day of Political Prisoners, according to Damon Wilson, president and chief executive of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), who announced the vote on Wednesday. The vote had not yet appeared in the official congressional record at the time of publication.
Wilson credited Senators Roger Wicker, Jeanne Shaheen and Sheldon Whitehouse, who introduced the measure as S.Res.472 on October 29, 2025. Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, is the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee.
In a post on LinkedIn, Wilson described t...