Hojjatoleslam Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari | Status: Released | Iran
Eshkevari was released from prison on February 6, 2005. He was freed after serving two-thirds of his seven-year jail term. A condition of his release is that Eshkevari will… More
Kareem Amer | Status: Released | Egypt
Kareem Amer is an Egyptian blogger and former al-Azhyar University student known for his secular views and his critical writings about Islam and Egypt's highest religious authorities. His writings… More
Léster Luis González Pentón | Status: Released | Cuba
Léster Luis González Pentón is an independent journalist and political activist. In 2002, he co-founded El Movimiento por la Democracia (the Movement for Democracy) and later the ALFA-3 Movement,… More
José Luis García Paneque | Status: Released | Cuba
Dr. José Luis García Paneque is an independent journalist and librarian. He is a member of the Manuel Marquez Sterling Journalists’ Association, an independent association that the Cuban government… More
Jean-Claude Kavumbagu | Status: Released | Burundi
Following his July 2010 arrest, Jean-Claude Kavumbagu was charged with treason, which carries a life sentence in Burundi. Kavumbagu's trial was held on April 13, 2011. On May 13, 2011, the… More
Huang Jinqiu | Status: Released | China
Born in 1974 in Shangdong Province, Huang Jinqiu is an Internet essayist, writer and journalist. A graduate of Beijing's respected Lu Xun Literature Institute and the University of Lincoln… More
Mohammed Abbou | Status: Released | Tunisia
Mohammed Abbou, an Internet writer, lawyer, and human rights activist, was arrested on March 1, 2005, for an article published on the Internet nine months earlier that denounced torture… More
Dolma Kyab | Status: Released | China/Tibet Autonomous Region
Dolma Kyab is a writer and teacher in his native Tibet, born in 1976. After protests and riots broke out in Lhasa in March 2008, Dolma Kyab was reportedly… More
Bernardo Arévalo Padrón | Status: Released | Cuba
Bernardo Arévalo Padrón was arrested in August 1997 and charged with "insulting and contemptuous behavior" towards then-President Fidel Castro, for which he was sentenced to six years in prison.… More
Tohti Tunyaz | Status: Released | China/Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Tohti Tunyaz (pen name: Muzart) is an ethnic Uyghur historian and writer. He was released from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Prison No. 3 in the provincial capital of Urumqi… More
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