Munkhbayar Chuluundorj

A founding member of the World Mongols Poetry Association, Chuluundorj is a well-known blogger, poet, and human rights defender known for defending Inner Mongolian human rights, culture, and history.… More

Pavel Vinahradau

Vinahradau is an activist and online commentator who ran a Telegram channel. It was declared extremist and Vinahradau was detained on December 22, 2021. He was charged with incitement… More

Keyvan Mohtadi

Mohtadi is a writer, translator, and labor activist. In recent years, his membership in the Iranian Writers’ Association and support of workers' rights have made him a target. On… More

Wang Aizhong

Wang, a well-known activist and online commentator, was detained ahead of the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen protests in May 2021, likely because of his critical tweets; the formal… More

Chan Thar Swe K Za Win

After spending over a year in prison for taking part in a 2015 rally for education reform, the activist and former Buddhist monk, known by his pen name K… More

Elchin Hasanzade

In May 2020 the head of the Mingachevir Public Utilities Department filed a lawsuit against blogger Hasanzade and Ibrahim Salamov for writing articles that speculated about corrupt practices in… More

Şebnem Korur Fincancı

Şebnem Korur Fincancı

Fincancı, a human rights activist and expert, was arrested after serving as a guest editor for pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem. Her acquittal was overturned in November 2020 and she… More

Nurcan Kaya

Nurcan Kaya

Columnist and lawyer Kaya’s work focuses on women’s rights, education, and peaceful protests. In September 2021, she was convicted on propaganda charges based on social media posts from 2014,… More

Paul Rusesabagina

Paul Rusesabagina

Rusesabagina is the author of An Ordinary Man, an autobiography of his life as a hotel manager during the Rwandan genocide. He was detained in August 2020 when boarding… More

Mya Aye

Mya Aye

Mya Aye was surrounded at gunpoint and arrested on February 1, 2021, the first day of the coup. He was charged with “inciting ethnic hatred” using a 2014 email… More