Amina Mansour
An online commentator and prominent figure in Tunisia’s 2011 revolution, Amina Mansour is facing trial for a Facebook post criticizing the country’s Prime Minister. Mansour was sentenced to six… More
Khushruz Jumayev Khushom Gulyam
In March 2022, Jumayev—a Pamiri blogger—was detained and interrogated for unkown reasons. Two months later, he was arrested, detained, and eventually charged with “participation in banned political groups." In… More
Akram Raslan
A well-known cartoonist and blogger, Raslan has published over 300 cartoons. Since the 2012 uprising in Syria, he has been publishing pro-opposition cartoons anonymously on popular news websites such… More
Osama Khaled
Osama Khaled was a high ranking Wikipedia volunteer administrator with privileged access to edit protected pages. He was detained in 2020 and sentenced to 5 years of prison which… More
Ziyad Al-Sofiani
Al-Sofiani was a high ranking Wikipedia volunteer administrator with privileged access to edit protected pages. He was detained in 2020 and sentenced to 8 years in prison. It was… More
Turki Al-Jasser
Al-Jasser is a blogger, who often wrote on politics, social issues, and religion between 2013 & 2015; including women's status in islam and the uprising in Egypt. He was… More
Leong Sze Hian
A columnist and activist, Hian was ordered by the court to pay S$133k (US$98K) in damages for sharing a link on his Facebook page to an article alleging that… More
Sandra Rodríguez Cotto
A columnist, literary writer, and online commentator, Cotto has been facing continued harassment since 2018. She is accused of playing a role in the 2019 protests. in June 2022,… More
Abdullah Jelan
Jelan is an online commentator who went to graduate school in the U.S.; upon his return to Saudi Arabia, he spent months looking for a job. After he was… More
Lama Ghosheh
A journalist and online commentator, Ghosheh also worked as a researcher at the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit. She was arrested at her home in August 2022 after sharing social… More