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Liu Xia, the widow of democracy activist and Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, has been kept under house arrest without charge since 2010. A 56 year-old poet and photographer, Liu was arbitrarily confined to her home soon after her imprisoned husband was awarded the Nobel...
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In the week since the death of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner and pro-democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo, supporters around the world have joined in remembrance of his life, his work and influence as well as the unjustness of his 11-year prison sentence for “inciting subversion...
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By: Daniel McElroy Silya Ziani, a detained Amazigh protest singer and one of the most recognizable faces of Morocco’s ongoing Rif Movement, is finishing the seventh day of a hunger strike that she says she will carry on indefinitely. Ziani, who was arrested on June 5, joined...
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Indian poet Surjit Gag was arrested July 9, 2017 for blasphemy, on charges of hurting religious sentiments. He is alleged to have violated section 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code, a law which criminalizes “deliberate and malicious” acts intended to outrage religious feelings.
Silya Ziani, a protest singer from Morocco’s Rif region, was arrested on June 5, 2017, while traveling by taxi with a group of three other activists to Casablanca. She remains in custody without charge.
- Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot