Yang Tongyan is a Chinese poet, writer, and theorist who was sentenced on May 16, 2006 to twelve years imprisonment on charges of "subversion of state power" for publishing poems

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Atena Daemi is an Iranian woman arrested in May 2015 and sentenced to 7 years in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state,” “acting against national security,” and “insulting

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Nûdem Durak is a ethnic Kurdish singer living in Cizre, Turkey. She is well-known throughout her community for teaching local folk songs in the Kurdish language to young children in

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Chinese ethnocide in Tibet has involved a careful policy of cultural cleansing by imprisoning Tibetan artists who speak out about the government's policy of abuse or even simply advocate for