Sentenced to death for the murder of a police officer in 1982, Mumia Abu-Jamal continues to fight for a review of his trial, which was tainted by numerous irregularities at the time. A former journalist and activist, this man on probation refuses to remain silent, despite the humiliations and censorship imposed on him by the prison administration: he therefore resumes the fight and denounces the injustice and abuses of the American political and judicial system, the conditions of life on death row, the social situation of black Americans, and delivers his analyses of the contemporary world, as it appears to him from the bottom of his cell. Condemned to silence is the poignant and revolting book of a symbolic prisoner who has received the support of a large international solidarity movement.