This week marks six months since the arbitrary detention of Venezuelan human rights defender and civil society leader Jesús Armas.| McCain Institute
Funding will support initiative providing global advocacy to free political prisoners, hostages This article originally appeared in ASU News The McCain Institute at Arizona State University has received a $500,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to boost its global work on behalf of political prisoners and hostages. The grant will serve as seed funding for […]| McCain Institute
Marilena Stegbauer is a 2023 McCain Global Leader from Germany and an international lawyer based in London. She is part of the legal team advocating for the release of Jesús Armas. On December 10, 2024, my friend and fellow McCain Global Leader, Jesús Armas, was forcibly disappeared by masked men in Caracas. Today, eight months […]| McCain Institute
On July 10, 2025, Stanford professors Francis Fukuyama and Kathryn Stoner issued a joint demand calling for the immediate release of Jesús Armas, a Venezuelan pro-democracy activist and incoming Stanford student. Armas, a 2022 Fisher Family Fellow at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and| The Stanford Review
