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

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

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

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

Nizar Al-Banat

Al-Banat was a literary writer and a prominent human rights activist who was critical of the Palestinian Authority (PA) on social media. His home was attacked by PA forces… More