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Apr 13 2012 9:47PM
Writers in Prison (13)

Wang Xiaoning (王小宁,pen name: Shi Cheng, Chen Ping, Tiandi Pingshu), an engineer and freelance writer who was arrested in 2002 for “inciting subversion of state power”. He is currently serving his 10-year sentence in Beijing No 2 Prison...

Apr 12 2012 9:10PM
Unreported World from Sudan

Channel 4 shows Unreported World on Friday 13 April 2012. The report this time comes from Sudan and may show why George Clooney was willing to get arrested to draw attention to what is happening there. You can get an idea from this...

Apr 12 2012 6:02PM
Current Writers in Prison (12)

Nurmuhemmet YASIN (born 6 March 1974), a Freelance Uighur writer of the Uighur-language Kashgar Literary Journal, is currently serving a 10-year imprisonment in Urumqi No.1 Prison, Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region...

Apr 12 2012 5:11PM
Abdulhadi al-Kwahaja arrested: memories of a jailed activist’s wife

As I write this the dedicated human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja is lying, close to unconscious, in Bahrain’s Military Hospital. Unless the Bahrain authorities act quickly it is highly likely that he will die there. His journey...

Apr 11 2012 7:55PM
Current Writers in Prison (11)

Dolma Kyab (born in 1976), a writer and history teacher arrested in 2005 at the middle school where he was employed. He was tried in secret by the Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court and was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison...