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
Lê Chi Quang | Status: Released | Vietnam
Lê Chi Quang is a lawyer and computer teacher who has written several essays criticizing the government. These essays were distributed through the Internet. More
PEN welcomes release of Vietnamese Internet dissident Lˆ Chi Quang
PEN American Center hailed the release this week of Lê Chi Quang, an Internet activist whose critical essays about the Vietnamese government earned him a 4-year prison term followed… More
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Hong Kong has warned the Wall Street Journal that it may have broken electoral law by "scaremongering" in a recent editorial about the upcoming vote for the city's legislative council. https://cnn.it/3ouNL0X
Last week, authorities in Belarus raided the homes of dozens of journalists and activists, according to a human rights group, in what appeared to be the biggest one-day crackdown on dissent in the past three months. https://to.pbs.org/3IpQMaK
