Shafiqul Islam Kajol
Journalist Kajol was forcibly disappeared for 53 days in March 2020. Found early in May 2020, he was then detained for over 230 days by authorities on charges including… More
Alena Palachanskaya
During a street rally on August 20, 2020 both members of the band LAUDANS, Palachanskaya and Andrey Luhin, had their instruments confiscated. On October 16, 2020 both were detained… More
Ales Pushkin
Ales Pushkin was a performance artist who used art to criticize and comment on politics. In August 2020, he was detained and beaten while en route to protest the… More
Durai Guna Gunasekaran
Guna, a Dalit rights writer-activist, was detained in September 2019 for putting up “defamatory” signs inviting replacements for apathetic government officials. He was arrested again in September 2020 for… More
Zay Yar Lwin Daung Doh Myo Sat or Peacock Generation
Zay Yar Lwin, a member of the Peacock Generation satirical poetry troupe specializing in Thangyat, a type of slam poetry, was sentenced to four and a half years in… More
Mehdi Salimi
Salimi writes on gender and politics. He was detained for a month in July 2020 and released on bail. In July 2021, a court convicted him of propaganda and… More
Amin Moradi
Moradi, a poet and member of the Iranian Writers’ Association, was arbitrarily arrested and detained on November 28, 2020 in a home raid. Authorities confiscated his devices and books… More
Khosro Sadeghi Borojeni
Borojeni is a freelance columnist and writer who has focused on political and economic analysis, including COVID-19 mismanagement and critiques of neoliberalism. He was arrested in May 2019 and… More
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