Izatullah Zawab
Zawab is a poet and editor of Meena literary magazine who has written poetry critical of the Taliban and their treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan. He was… More
Zakaria Osuli
Writer, professor, and outspoken activist for the women's rights movement, Osuli was released by the Taliban after two months of detention in April 2023. Prior to his detention, Osuli… More
Rasul Abdi Parsi
Parsi is an Islamic law scholar and former professor at Herat University who was arrested by the Taliban in March 2023 for comments he posted on Facebook. In October… More
Arouna Louré
Louré, an anesthesiologist, is an outspoken critic of the Burkinabé government. In 2018, he published an essay Burkindi for a new revolution on the increase in political activism, and… More
Cao Peizhi
Cao is an activist and founder of Warm House, a WeChat blog group discussing democracy issues in China. In July 2022, Cao was detained on charges of "picking quarrels… More
Xiang Jinfeng
Xiang is a blogger who created a WeChat group where has been posting politically sensitive commentary and expressing concerns about citizens' rights since 2017. In 2019, he was stopped… More
Xie Junbiao
Xie is an activist and blogger from Chengdu. In 2018, he was beaten and detained by police for 10 days on charges of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." He… More
Zhang Xiaodong
Online commentator Zhang was arrested by the Chinese authorities and charged with "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" for comments he made on WeChat, Moments, and QQ chat groups. Zhang… More
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