Liu Ermu

Liu is an online activist focused on environmental protection and human rights. He was summoned in 2016 by local police and detained for more than 10 hours for an… More

Sun Lin

Sun Lin was an independent journalist who reported on human rights violations and former editor of Metropolis. He was detained multiple times throughout the years for his criticism of… More

Rowena He

He is the author of Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China. She also worked as a professor at several universities including Hong Kong University and… More

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

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

Xu Guang

Xu is a long -time democracy activist who has been arrested multiple times in past years; his latest arrest was on May 26, 2022. After he had been warned… More