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

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

Zhou Guoqiang Aqu Qiangba

Zhou (pen name Aqu Qiangba) is a poet and editor of Today. He was previously detained for seven months in 1989 for organizing a strike, and sentenced to three… More

Mortaza Behboudi

Behboudi is a Franco-Afghan journalist and documentary filmmaker who co-founded and contributed to the independent news site Guiti News. He was detained by the Taliban on January 7, two… More

Duong Van Thai Thai Van Duong

Independent journalist Duong Van Thai went missing on April 14, 2023 in Bangkok, where he lived as a refugee. Duong had been critical of Vietnamese government on his Facebook… More

Dang Dang Phuoc

Dang Dang Phuoc is a blogger and music lecturer at Dak Lak College in the province of Dak Lak. He shares his knowledge about music, education, and his… More

Nguyen Van Lam

Nguyen Van Lam was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of "making, storing and spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the State of Socialist… More