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Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak is one of Turkey’s longest serving political prisoners, having been imprisoned for over 26 years. His life sentence on charges of starting a forest fire and associating with the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party is due to expire in 2024, but...
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Indian poet and journalist Siraj Bisaralli was arrested February 2020 after a public poetry reading in which he protested India’s controversial Citizenship Amendment Act. He has since been released on bail but still faces trial on charges of “intentional insult with intent to provoke breach...
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The Chinese Muslim poet and writer Cui Haoxin, who publishes under the pseudonym An Ran, has been detained in China since January 24, 2020. Following a series of tweets over the last few years decrying anti-Muslim discrimination and concentration “re-education” camps in Xinjiang, he has...
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The award-winning Iranian film director, Mohammad Rasoulof, has been sentenced to one year in prison and two years of probation in Tehran due to the unapproved content of his films. Several international film festivals, of which he has been a participant and competitor in recent years, have come to his
Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi is a well-known Burmese filmmaker who has been detained in Yangon’s Insein Prison since April 12, 2019 and is currently on trial facing charges of “online defamation” and “inciting mutiny” among members of the Armed Forces, called the Tatmadaw in Myanmar. He has been repeatedly
- Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot