Yang Tongyan (杨同彦, a.k.a. Yang Tianshui 杨天水, born 12 April 1961), a freelance writer, member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, is currently serving a 12-year sentence in Nanjing Prison, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. Yang is a...

A tiny Mexican newspaper is leading the fight for truth in the face of the drugs war, says this article only just published on the Guardian website. Meanwhile Latin American leaders admit that the war against drugs has failed.

Shi Tao ( 师涛 , born 25 July 1968), a journalist and poet from Changsha, Hunan Province, who wrote for the daily Chinese publication Contemporary Business News , is currently serving a 10-year sentence in Hunan. Shi also wrote essays...

Liu Xianbin (刘贤斌, born 2 October 1968), a veteran pro-democracy and human rights activist from Suining City, Sichuan Province, currently serving his third long-term imprisonment in Chuanzhong Prison, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province...

Tashi Rabten (pen name: The’urang), a student at the Northwest Nationalities University and the editor of banned literary magazine Eastern Snow Mountain ( Tibetan : Shar Dungri), was sentenced to four years in prison on 2 June 2011...