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José Bello, a student, activist, and farmworker, has been held in Mesa Verde detention center in Bakersfield, California since May 14 after he recited a poem criticizing the immigration enforcement and detention practices of the United States.
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Jailed Uighur scholar and winner of the 2014 Freedom to Write Award Ilham Tohti has been serving a life sentence on separatism-related charges since 2014. His daughter continues to speak out and plead for her father's release: https://t.co/R5im1llEI0.
‘Police officers demanded to see my books’: @Elif_Safak on Turkey's war on free-speech: https://t.co/RzwaAY11aC via @guardian.