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Dissident Spotlight: Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja
Abdulhadi al-Khawaja is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison after spending much of his life as an exiled dissident.
Sep 17
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Christopher Gerlacher
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Dissident Spotlight: Rosario Ibarra de Piedra
Rosario Ibarra spent much of her life fighting to find her disappeared son and the estimated 100,000 Mexicans who met the same fate.
Sep 10
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Christopher Gerlacher
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Dissident Spotlight: Azimjon Askarov
Azimjon Askarov covered unrest between the Kyrgyz majority and Uzbek minority in southern Kyrgyzstan. He was handed a life sentence for it.
Sep 3
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Christopher Gerlacher
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Dissident Spotlight: Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano faced a 1,000-euro fine for calling Italy's prime minister a "bastard," a regression of free speech in a "Western" country.
Aug 27
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Christopher Gerlacher
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Dissident Spotlight: Saied bin Nasser al-Ghamdi
Mohammad bin Salman has targeted Saied bin Nasser al-Ghamdi's family as a result of his outspoken opposition to Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses.
Aug 20
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Christopher Gerlacher
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Dissident Spotlight: Miguel Mendoza Urbina
A sports commentator became a prominent dissident when he used his platform to speak out against the state's violence against protesters.
Aug 13
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Christopher Gerlacher
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Dissident Spotlight: Lhamjab Borjigin
For advocating for the Mongolian language and documenting human rights abuses against Mongolians, Lhamjab Borjigin remains in Chinese custody.
Aug 6
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Christopher Gerlacher
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Dissident Spotlight: Marko Vidojković
Marko Vidojković's 2020 novel was real enough to lead to death threats and legal consequences years after its publication.
Jul 30
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Christopher Gerlacher
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Dissident Spotlight: Pema Rinchen
Pema Rinchen wrote a book about Tibetans' resistance to China's 2008 crackdown against the autonomous state. He spent four years in prison for it.
Jul 23
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Christopher Gerlacher
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Dissident Spotlight: Norman Tumuhimbise
Norman Tumuhimbise is one of many victims of a leader's thin skin and quick resort to "offensiveness" as a crime against the state.
Jul 16
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Christopher Gerlacher
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Dissident Spotlight: Daphne Caruana Galizia
Daphne Galizia's murder shows how journalists can be unsafe even in developed countries if their leaders are accustomed to dangerous levels of…
Jul 9
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Christopher Gerlacher
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Dissident Spotlight: Rania al-Assal
Rania al-Assal is an Egyptian journalist who disappeared during her pilgrimage to Mecca. Saudi Arabia released her almost a year after seizing her.
Jul 2
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Christopher Gerlacher
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